Karen Black — Actor (66)
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Caged Fear (1991) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Caged Fear
director: Robert Houston actor: David Keith / Deborah May …
other title: Jail Force
After a jewelry theft Tommy Lane can hardly free. His girlfriend Kristen has less luck and is arrested. She's sentenced to jail in an ill-reputed female prison in Oklahoma. Tommy doesn't let her down; he manages to get into the prison - on the other side of the bars - to force the ruthless director to let her go.
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Bad Manners (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Bad Manners
director: Robert Houston actor: Pamela Adlon / Murphy Dunne …
other title: Con le buone maniere si ottiene tutto / Schweinebande! …
Four teens on the run from an orphanage spring a fellow orphan recently adopted by a rich family, then trash the whole house.
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You're a Big Boy Now (1966) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
You're a Big Boy Now
director: Francis Ford Coppola actor: Elizabeth Hartman / Geraldine Page …
other title: Buttati, Bernardo! / Big Boy, jetzt wirst Du ein Mann! …
Naive library clerk Bernard Chanticleer moves out of his parents’ home and into a chaotic city full of eccentric landlords, meddling parents, and romantic missteps. Infatuated with a glamorous but manipulative go-go dancer, he learns through heartbreak—and the kindness of a steadfast admirer—what growing up really means.
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Crime and Passion (1976) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Ace Up My Sleeve
director: Ivan Passer actor: Omar Sharif / Karen Black …
other title: Un asso nella mia manica / Frankensteins Spukschloß …
Financier persuades his mistress to marry a rich industrialist for his money, then discovers that he and the new wife are to be murdered by her new husband.
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Who Is Henry Jaglom? (1997) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
director: Jeremy Workman / Henry Alex Rubin actor: Henry Jaglom / Candice Bergen …
Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "world's worst director," Henry Jaglom obsessively confuses and abuses the line between life and art. Featuring scores of interviews (including Orson Welles, Dennis Hopper, Milos Forman and Peter Bogdanovich) and rare behind-the-scenes footage, this hilarious documentary explores the fascinating question of Who Is Henry Jaglom?
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Power (1980) [TV] IMDb TMDB
Power
director: Barry Shear / Virgil W. Vogel actor: Joe Don Baker / Karen Black …
Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leader who, like Hoffa, finds himself behind bars in a federal prison, and not long after, taken for a ride by shady men never to be seen again.
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Night Angel (1990) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Night Angel
director: Dominique Othenin-Girard actor: Isa Jank / Linden Ashby …
other title: La regina dell'inferno / Night Angel - Die Hure des Satans …
A legendary she-demon, in the updated guise of a beautiful model, infiltrates the offices of a successful fashion magazine with the aim of corrupting the world via mass media.
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Twisted Justice (1990) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Twisted Justice
director: David Heavener actor: David Heavener / Shannon Tweed …
other title: Justicia implacable
In the Los Angeles of the future, police are forbidden to carry weapons and must use stun guns instead. A maverick detective ignores those restrictions in his pursuit of "The Bullseye Murderer," a psychotic rapist who takes a new drug called "Umbra" that gives him superhuman strength and intelligence.
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Blood Money (1991) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Blood Money
director: Joseph Merhi actor: Wings Hauser / Karen Black …
other title: El precio del dinero
A Los Angeles police officer and a female FBI agent team-up to foil a counterfeiting gang in operation. The counterfeiter in question turns out to be an army veteran friend who saved the male cop during their time together in Vietnam.
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Final Judgement (1992) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Final Judgement
director: Louis Morneau actor: Brad Dourif / David Ledingham …
other title: L'ultima confessione / Final Judgement - Henker im Meßgewand …
A priest is suspected in the brutal murder of a young stripper. To prove his innocence, he descends into the world of strip clubs and pornography, hoping to catch the killer.
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Invisible Dad (1998) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Invisible Dad
director: Fred Olen Ray actor: Karen Black / Charles Dierkop …
Doug Baily's father is weird, but a strange machine in the garage now makes him invisible too. It's a roller coaster ride of fun and hijinks as Doug tries to turn his invisible dad back to normal again.
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Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
director: Nicholas D. Wrathall actor: Gore Vidal / Jerry Brown …
Anchored by intimate, one-on-one interviews with the man himself, Nicholas Wrathall’s new documentary is a fascinating and wholly entertaining tribute to the iconic Gore Vidal. Commentary by those who knew him best—including filmmaker/nephew Burr Steers and the late Christopher Hitchens—blends with footage from Vidal’s legendary on-air career to remind us why he will forever stand as one of the most brilliant and fearless critics of our time.
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Evil Spirits (1991) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Evil Spirits
director: Gary Graver actor: Karen Black / Arte Johnson …
A dark comedy thriller that manages to skillfully blend humor and mystery into one incredible film from its thrilling beginning to the shocking climax! The superb all-star cast is a unique collection of characters who find themselves with one very special thing in common -- they are all boarders of Mrs. Ella Purdy (Karen Black) and totally dependent upon her gracious nature. The suspense mounts as, one-by-one, they fall sacrifice to ominous secrets enshrined within the walls of her foreboding house! Murder and mayhem prevail throughout the tense but often humorous situations as each victim draws nearer to his or her fate.
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Children of the Night (1991) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Children of the Night
director: Tony Randel actor: Karen Black / Peter DeLuise …
other title: Crianças da Noite / Les enfants des ténèbres …
In the quiet little town of Allburg, friends Lucy and Cindy are on the verge of going away to college when they partake in a cleansing ritual by swimming in an abandoned church crypt. After Lucy accidentally drops her crucifix in the water, it drifts down and awakens the ancient vampire Czakyr, who becomes thirsty for Lucy's virgin blood.