Frank Zappa

biography:
Frank Vincent Zappa  (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band The Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.

While in his teens, he acquired a taste for percussion-based avant-garde composers such as Edgard Varèse and 1950s rhythm and blues music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands; he later switched to electric guitar. He was a self-taught composer and performer, and his diverse musical influences led him to create music that was often impossible to categorize. His 1966 debut album with The Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages. His later albums shared this eclectic and experimental approach, irrespective of whether the fundamental format was one of rock, jazz or classical. He wrote the lyrics to all his songs, which—often humorously—reflected his iconoclastic view of established social and political processes, structures and movements. He was a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion, and a forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech, self-education, political participation and the abolition of censorship.

Zappa was a highly productive and prolific artist and gained widespread critical acclaim. Many of his albums are considered essential in rock and jazz history. He is regarded as one of the most original guitarists and composers of his time. He also remains a major influence on musicians and composers. He had some commercial success, particularly in Europe, and for most of his career was able to work as an independent artist. Zappa was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997.

Zappa was married to Kathryn J. "Kay" Sherman from 1960 to 1964. In 1967, he married Adelaide Gail Sloatman, with whom he remained until his death from prostate cancer in 1993. They had four children: Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet Emuukha Rodan and Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen. Gail Zappa manages the businesses of her late husband under the name the Zappa Family Trust.

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Miami Vice

overview: The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.

character: Mario Fuente

original_name: Miami Vice

The Monkees

overview: Micky, Mike, Peter, and Davy are four young men in mid-1960s LA, members of a struggling country-folk-rock band looking for their big break amid madcap encounters with a variety of people straight out of TV and movie central casting, with full knowledge that their existence is part of a weekly television series.

character: Self (uncredited)

original_name: The Monkees

origin_country: GB US

Saturday Night Live

overview: A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.

character: Self - Musical Guest

original_name: Saturday Night Live

Girls and Boys - Sex and British Pop

overview: Four-part documentary series that tells the story of British pop music and our changing attitudes to sex, gender and sexuality.

character: Self (archive footage)

original_name: Girls and Boys - Sex and British Pop

Laurel Canyon

overview: Featuring all-new, original interviews with Jackson Browne, Don Henley, Michelle Phillips, Graham Nash, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt, Roger McGuinn and more, this uniquely immersive and experiential two-part docuseries takes us back in time to a place where a rustic canyon in the heart of Los Angeles became a musical petri dish.

original_name: Laurel Canyon

The Ren & Stimpy Show

overview: Ren and Stimpy are a mismatch made in animation heaven with nothing in common but a life-long friendship and an incredible knack for getting into trouble. Join them in their bizarre and gross world for some outlandish situations coupled with hilarious jokes.

character: The Pope (voice)

original_name: The Ren & Stimpy Show

origin_country: CA US

Good Evening — I'm Jonathan King

overview: British chat show

character: Himself

original_name: Good Evening — I'm Jonathan King

Late Night Line-Up

overview: Late Night Line-Up was a pioneering British television discussion programme broadcast on BBC2 between 1964 and 1972. Late Night Line-Up returned for a special one-off edition on BBC Parliament in 2008.

original_name: Late Night Line-Up

Omnibus

overview: Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'.  It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards.  Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott.  For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman.  The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.

original_name: Omnibus

Beat-Club

overview: Beat-Club was a German music program that ran from September 1965 to December 1972. It is notable for being the first German show to be based around popular music, and featured artists such as The Equals, Grateful Dead, Zager and Evans, Cream, Frank Zappa, The Rolling Stones, Gene Pitney, Ten Years After, Rory Gallagher, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Ike & Tina Turner, The Who, Black Sabbath, Harry Nilsson, David Bowie, The Bee Gees, The Beach Boys, Chicago, The Doors, Kraftwerk and Robin Gibb in its seven-year run. In 1972, it was replaced by Musikladen.

original_name: Beat-Club

original_language: de

Faerie Tale Theatre

overview: A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.

character: Attilla

original_name: Faerie Tale Theatre

Saturday Night Live

character: Self - Host & Musical Guest

Classic Albums

overview: A documentary series about pop and rock albums that are considered the best or most distinctive of a well-known band or musician or that exemplify a stage in the history of music.

original_name: Classic Albums

Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution

overview: In this CBS News report, Leonard Bernstein examines creativity in pop music of the mid 1960s. This is probably one of the first examples of pop music being examined as a "serious" art form.

original_name: Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution

Duckman

job: In Memory Of

overview: Together with Cornfed, his portly, porcine partner in crime solving, this defective detective amazingly manages to solve crimes and be a single parent to his hilariously dysfunctional sons at the same time.

original_name: Duckman

job: Music

department: Sound

English

iso_3166_1: US

Український

biography: Френк Заппа — американський вокаліст, гітарист, клавішник, ударник, композитор, аранжувальник, автор текстів, продюсер, сценарист та режисер.

Deutsch

biography: Frank Zappa war ein US-amerikanischer Musiker.

Latviešu

iso_639_1: lv

iso_3166_1: LV

english_name: Latvian

also_known_as:
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Френк Заппа
法蘭克札帕

title: Sex in Today's World

overview: An examination of changing sexual attitudes in the United States, including comments on the personal and sociological significance of the changes of the time.

original_title: Sex in Today's World

title: Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution

overview: Documentary about young pop and rock musicians producing music as "a symptom and generator" of social unrest and generation gaps.

original_title: Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution

title: Frank Zappa – Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily

overview: In the feature documentary, Summer 82 – When Zappa Came to Sicily, filmmaker and Zappa fan Salvo Cuccia tells the behind-the-scenes story of Frank Zappa's star-crossed concert in Palermo, Sicily, the wrap-up to a European tour that ended in public disturbances and police intervention. Cuccia had a ticket to the concert but never made it.  Thirty years later, collaborating with Zappa's family, he re-creates the events through a combination of rare concert and backstage footage; photographs; anecdotes from family, band members, and concertgoers; and insights from Zappa biographer and friend Massimo Bassoli. The story is also a personal one, as Cuccia interweaves the story of Zappa's trip to Sicily with his own memories from that summer.

character: Himself (archive Footage)

original_title: Frank Zappa - Summer '82 : When Zappa Came to Sicily

title: Video from Hell

overview: In a little over an hour, 'VIDEO FROM HELL' provides a preview of current and projected Honker releases, including 'BABY SNAKES', 'THE TRUE STORY OF 200 MOTELS' and 'UNCLE MEAT' (all 1987 releases) along with segments of 1988 shows still in preparation ('YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE'- which will be released after the multi-CD package, 'I NEED YOUR LOVE' - the homespun philosophy of Al Malkin, and 'AN AMERICAN DISSIDENT' - the homespun philosophy of Frank Zappa).

original_title: Video from Hell

title: The Making of 200 Motels

overview: Directed by Roelof Kiers for Dutch television, this documentary follows Frank Zappa at home and during the making of 200 Motels. Combining interviews with backstage and on-set footage, the film captures Zappa discussing the project while documenting performers and collaborators involved in the production.

original_title: Frank Zappa filmt 200 Motels

original_language: nl

title: Cheepnis

overview: Featuring the only footage Zappa cut together from his legendary 1973 Roxy concerts, "Cheepnis" sings the praises of low-budget monster movies. This short documents the director, bandleader, songwriter and musician at work. (American Cinematheque program notes)

original_title: Cheepnis

title: 200 Motels

overview: "Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story, interspersed with performances by the Mothers and the Royal Symphony Orchestra, is a tale of life on the road. The band members' main concerns are the search for groupies and the desire to get paid.

character: Member of Mothers of Invention (uncredited)

original_title: 200 Motels

title: Frank Zappa: The Torture Never Stops

overview: Halloween, New York City, 1981 Live at The Palladium with Ray White, Steve Vai, Bobby Martin, Tommy Mars, Ed Mann, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman

original_title: Frank Zappa: The Torture Never Stops

title: Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere

overview: Frank Zappa: New York & Elsewhere is an Austrian released TV documentary directed in 1980 by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher, aka DoRo productions, who are most popular for their work with Queen.

original_title: Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere

title: Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die

overview: Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die is a 2000 documentary about Frank Zappa.

original_title: Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die

title: Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note

overview: Frank Zappa: Phase Two is a 2002 documentary about Frank Zappa. It features a lot of footage from Scheffer's previous film, but new material from Malcolm McNab's private achive.

original_title: Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note

title: Burnt Weeny Sandwich

overview: A film by Frank Zappa made for the Dilexi Foundation on KQED

title: Zapped: Frank Zappa par Frank Zappa

title: Hey, Hey, We're The Monkees

overview: Documentary focusing The Monkees, the 1960s pop group originally created for a TV sitcom. Interviews with the band members, the show's creators, and musical collaborators and peers are featured.

title: Funny

overview: People are asked to tell their favorite jokes.

title: Deep Purple: Made In Japan

overview: Made in Japan was recorded live over three nights during 15–17 August 1972 at Festival Hall, Osaka and at Budokan, Tokyo, Japan. Four of the tracks come from the album Machine Head which had been released earlier that year.  The album was at first seen as somewhat unimportant by the band members, and only Roger Glover and Ian Paice showed up to mix it.  The release in the US was delayed, until April 1973, because Warner Bros. wanted to release Who Do We Think We Are first. The three concerts recorded were later released as Live in Japan 3-CD box set (1993). According to the liner notes for that set, unlike many live albums, there are no overdubs or studio additions to the original album.

title: Fuck

overview: A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use.

title: Super Duper Alice Cooper

overview: Emerging from the Detroit music scene of the 1970s in a flurry of long hair and sequins, Alice Cooper restored hard rock with a sense of showmanship, while simultaneously striking fear into the hearts of Middle America with the chicken-slaughtering, dead-baby-eating theatrics that would cement his identity as a glam metal icon. Meticulously crafted from rare archival footage, Super Duper Alice Cooper tells the story of the man behind the makeup, Vincent Furnier, the son of a preacher, who got caught in the grip of his own monster.

title: Made in Japan: The Rise of Deep Purple Mk II

overview: Deep Purple is one of the most influential and important guitar bands in history, one of the godfathers of the heavy metal genre, with over 100 million album sales worldwide to their name. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Deep Purple's groundbreaking double live album Made in Japan, this documentary explores these recordings and Deep Purple Mark 2, the line-up between 1969 and 1973.

original_title: Made in Japan: The Rise of Deep Purple Mk II

title: EAV Rarities

overview: This recording is a rarity documentary about the EAV. The recording was released in 2006 on the DVD "100 Years EAV".

title: Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s

overview: A look at "rock and roll" and other pop music based film of the 1970s.

title: Led Zeppelin Played Here

overview: 1969. Man lands on the moon. Half a million strong at Woodstock....and Led Zeppelin perform in the gym of the Wheaton Youth Center in front of 50 confused teenagers. Or did they? Filmmaker Jeff Krulik chronicles an enduring Maryland legend, of the very night this concert was alleged to have taken place, January 20, 1969, during the first Presidential Inauguration of Richard Nixon. Led Zeppelin Played Here presents a mid-Atlantic version of what was happening nationwide as the rock concert industry took shape. Featuring interviews with rock writers, musicians, and fans, and several who claim they were witnessing history that night.

title: Feats First: The Life and Music of Lowell George

overview: This film, the first ever to chronicle Lowell George's life, music and career, uses archive footage and interviews of and with Lowell and Little Feat, plus contributions from many of those who knew him best, to visually recount the sometimes ecstatic, other times tragic life and times of this maverick genius.

original_title: Feats First: The Life and Music of Lowell George

title: Stupor Mundi: Livre 1, Rituel de décapitation du pape

overview: A mental journey - historical, political, musical and metaphysical - in contemporary times, from the Sixties until nowadays.

original_title: Stupor Mundi: Livre 1, Rituel de décapitation du pape

title: Head

overview: In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and vignettes containing humor and anti-establishment social commentary.

title: Frank Zappa: Music In Review

overview: Idiosyncratic composer, unique musician and ground-breaking film director..Frank Zappa packed more into his short lifetime than most men would manage in two. His restless, challenging, creative spirit meant that he never stood still during a career that bought huge critical and commercial success  Zappa sold more than 60 million albums both as a solo artist and with the Mothers of Invention. The life and work of Frank Zappa are examined in this superb new critical review, which features new in-depth interviews with industry insiders, rock journalists and respected critics plus highlights from the songs that re-drew the face of rock music.

title: A Life of Extravaganza - The Genius Frank Zappa

overview: The documentary examines Frank Zappa and his music through archive footage, including unique video excerpts from Austrian television archives featuring interviews with Zappa and backstage scenes from the 1970s and 1980s. The entire film is divided into chapters discussing the most important themes in Zappa's life and work.

original_title: Ein Leben als Extravaganza - Das Genie Frank Zappa

title: Tom Arnold: The Naked Truth

overview: Tom sets out to solve world problems, with help from Frank Zappa, Martin Mull, and wife Roseanne.

title: Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

overview: On John's 31st birthday, Yoko held an art exhibit, "This Is Not Here", at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.Y.. The show was taped and aired on U.S. TV on May 11, 1972 as "John and Yoko in Syracuse, New York.

title: The Rolling Stones - The First 20 Years

overview: Documentary about the first 20 years of the Rolling Stones with interviews and a lot of rare archive footages all over the world, pictures, TV and live songs 1962-1982 ("Satisfaction", "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Time Is On My Side" and many more). Hosted by punk star Nina Hagen. Interviews of Mick Jagger, his brother Chris, his father Joe, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Ron Wood, Ian Stewart, Bianca Jagger, Paul McCartney, Marianne Faithfull, Rod Stewart, Wendy O'Williams (from the Plasmatics), Diana Ross and Bill Graham (manager).

original_title: The Rolling Stones - Die ersten 20 Jahre

title: Amougies (Music Power - European Music Revolution)

overview: A film by Jerome Laperrousaz, showing the festival at Amougies, October 1969.

original_title: Amougies (Music Power - European Music Revolution)

title: Take Your Pills

overview: In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a way to do more -- faster and better. But at what cost?

title: Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

overview: With one of the most memorably stunning voices that has ever hit the airwaves, Linda Ronstadt burst onto the 1960s folk rock music scene in her early twenties.

title: Echo in the Canyon

overview: A look at the roots of the historic music scene in L.A.'s Laurel Canyon featuring the music of iconic music groups such as The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, and The Mamas and the Papas.

title: Larry Flynt for President

overview: Assembled from never before seen footage shot in 1983, this film documents controversial Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt's unlikely bid for the White House after a gunman's bullet left him partially paralyzed.

title: The Amazing Mr. Bickford

overview: Several pieces of Frank Zappa's music are set against clay animation by Bruce Bickford.

title: Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation

overview: This episode focuses on Zappa's early 70s albums, Overnight Sensation (1973) and Apostrophy (') (1974). Together they encapsulate Zappa's extraordinary musical diversity and were also the 2 most commercially successful albums that he released in his prolific career. Included are interviews, musical demonstrations, rare archive & home movie footage, plus live performances to tell the story behind the conception and recording of these groundbreaking albums. Extras include additional interviews and demonstrations not included in the broadcast version, 2 full performances from the Roxy in 1973 and Saturday Night Live in 1976, and new full live performance done specially for these Classic Albums.

original_title: Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation

title: Frank Zappa: Does Humor Belong in Music?

overview: Frank Zappa and his band in a digitally recorded live performance at "The Pier" in New York, NY on August 26, 1984.

original_title: Frank Zappa: Does Humor Belong in Music?

title: Night Flight with Frank Zappa, Porn Wars

overview: Frank Zappa stopped by the Night Flight studios in 1985 to talk about music videos, censorship, the PMRC and what it's like to play in his band.

original_title: Night Flight with Frank Zappa, Porn Wars

title: Frank Zappa: Baby Snakes

overview: Rock artist Frank Zappa hosts a concert in New York City. This movie contains tons of on-stage footage, off-stage footage, and animation.

title: Frank Zappa: We Don't Mess Around

overview: Tracklisting:  1. Pound for a Brown  2. Baby Snakes  3. Deathless Horsie  4. Dancin' Fool  5. Easy Meat  6. Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me  7. Keep It Greasey  8. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?  9. Sofa #2  10. Vinnie's Seal Call Fusion Music  11. Bobby Brown  12. Conehead  13. Dead Air/I'm On Duty  14. St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast  15. Father Oblivion  16. Rollo  17. Bamboozled Outro

title: Uncle Meat

overview: This is a documentary about an unfinished movie. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention try to film the sci-fi epic "Uncle Meat."

title: Frank Zappa: The Broadcast Archives

overview: Frank Zappa - The Broadcast Archives is a collection of live performances from the master of experimental and comedy rock. These Saturday Night Live performances demonstrate the musical genius and the progressive jazz-rock arrangements that were the signature of the phenomenal Frank  Zappa.  Featured tracks include:  Peaches En Regalia  I Am The Slime  Purple Lagoon  Dancing Fool  The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing  St Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast

title: Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: In the 1960's

overview: Here's the most detailed, informative, fascinating Zappa & the Mothers doc yet! Their restless experimentation and agitated social satire come into sharper focus as music journalists and Zappa biographers chime in with Zappa's bandmates and as you watch rare '60s performances and interviews.

original_title: Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: In the 1960's

title: Frank Zappa - Live in Paris 1980

overview:
Recorded Live in Paris in 1980, this is a rare recording of Frank Zappa performing at the peak of his career with his incredible backing band, including Ike Willis (guitar/vocals), Ray White (guitar/vocals), Tommy Mars (keys), Arthur Barrow (bass) and David Logeman (drums). It was the year after Zappa released two of his greatest albums - Sheik Yerbouti, and the masterpiece Joe's Garage - and this cracking live show includes the classic Zappa songs Joe's Garage, Dancing Fool, Bobby Brown and The Illinois Enema Bandit.  Tracklist :
 01. Chunga's Revenge
 02. Keep It Greasey
 03. Joe's Garage
 04. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
 05. Dancin 'Fool
 06. Bobby Brown
 07. Ms Pinky
 08. Illinois Enema Bandit

title: The Big T.N.T. Show

overview: Live performances by some of the top rock-and-roll acts of the mid 60s. Includes Ray Charles, The Byrds, Joan Baez, Ike and Tina Turner, Donovan, The Lovin' Spoonful, and several more.

title: The Velvet Underground

overview: Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd Haynes, this kaleidoscopic oral history combines exclusive interviews with dazzling archival footage.

title: Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne

original_title: Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne

title: Kalvøyafestivalen - 50 år siden første riff

overview: In 1971, the Kalvøya adventure started with shows, jazz and folk rock and the festival developed into "The mother of all Norwegian festivals".

original_title: Kalvøyafestivalen - 50 år siden første riff

title: The Art of Dissent

overview: "The Art of Dissent" celebrates the resilience and power of artistic engagement in Czechoslovakia before and after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion. The documentary's main protagonists - Václav Havel, banned singer Marta Kubisová, and the underground rock group the Plastic People of the Universe (PPU) - became the most recognizable dissidents during the 1970-80s. Havel bridged the disparate clusters of individuals and fused the literary, musical, political, and philosophical nonviolent elements into a hybrid network that eventually toppled the totalitarian regime in 1989.

title: Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind

overview: The untold story of Charles Manson's obsession to become a rock star, his rise in the LA music scene, the celebrities who championed his music, his tragic friendship with The Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson and his descent into violence and chaos once his dreams fell apart.

title: Hart & Soul - The Hart Family Anthology

overview: Hart & Soul: The Hart Family Anthology is a documentary produced and released by WWE Home Video in collaboration with Hart family members. The DVD chronicles the lineage of the Hart family beginning with the biography of patriarch Stu Hart. It gives a brief accounting of the lives of all twelve Hart children as well as parents Stu and Helen growing up in Calgary. It describes the deaths of Stu, Helen, Dean, Matthew, Owen, Brian Pillman and Davey Boy Smith with recollections from their loved ones. The DVD concludes with a feature on the Hart Dynasty and their future in WWE.

title: Stupor Mundi: Book 3, The Most Dangerous Encounter

overview: The 1990s to the present, through the main wars of the last decades - from Iraq to Libya - but also the influence of the East on modern Western musicians (Eyvind Kang, Jessika Kenney, Trey Spruance)

original_title: Stupor Mundi: Livre 3, La plus dangereuse rencontre

title: An American Dissident: un tributo a Frank Zappa

overview: An American Dissident: un tributo a Frank Zappa is an Italian documentary that aired on the Videomusic channel on January 7, 1994. It includes footage from Zappa's Universe, Video From Hell, Does Humor Belong In Music?, Baby Snakes, The True Story Of 200 Motels, The Late Show, Zappa's May 17, 1988 show at Palacio de Deportes in Barcelona, Spain, The Dub Room Special, various other interviews and performances.

original_title: An American Dissident: un tributo a Frank Zappa

title: Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!

overview: Produced by Frank Zappa in 1982, The Dub Room Special combines footage from a performance at the KCET studios in Los Angeles on August 27, 1974, a concert performed at The Palladium, NYC on October 31, 1981, some clay animation by Bruce Bickford, and several interviews. Previously only available through mail-order, it was made widely available on DVD on October 17, 2005.

title: The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

overview: A one-hour documentary on the making of Frank Zappa's bizarre 1971 comic musical. Vintage private footage from Frank's personal archives plus behind-the-scenes of the actual shooting and recording. With Ringo Starr, Theodore Bikel, Keith Moon and such songs as "Sleeping in a Jar," and "Strictly Genteel." The inside history of the first feature-length film to be shot on video in 6 days.

original_title: The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

title: Frank Zappa: A Token of His Extreme

overview: From "The Dub Room Special":  1.Approximate (3:56)  2.Cosmik Debris (5:14)  3.Room Service (5:58)  Not For Broadcast  4.Stinkfoot (5:44)  5.Inca Roads (9:55)  6.Pygmy Twylyte (3:53)  7.Room Service (5:18)  Song Selection  8.Dog Meat (4:10) - Dog Breath and Uncle Meat  9.More Trouble Every Day (13:07)  10.Montana (4:50)  11.George Duke Solo (7:40)  12.Florentine Pogen (8:15)  13.Oh No (4:54)  14.Pygmy Twylyte (9:46)  15.Stinkfoot (8:48)  16.Inca Roads (8:41)

title: Frank Zappa - John, Dan And Me

overview:
1976/12/12 tv-show "saturday night live"  opening credits
 i'm the slime
 purple lagoon
 the killer trees
 peaches en regalia
 closing credits
 1978/10/21 tv-show "saturday night live"  opening credits
 dancing fool
 the coneheads at home
 the meek shall inherit nothing
 night on freak mountain
 st.alphonzo / rollo
 closing credits
 1973/08/21 concert stockholm  montana
 dupree's paradise
 farther oblivion
 cosmik debris

title: Rock this Town

overview: An insider’s look into the gritty reality of building the local live music scene, Rock This Town brings to life the exciting history of rock music concerts in KW from the 1960s & ‘70s. Rock stars come and go but live music is here to stay!

title: Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme

overview: Frank Zappa: A Token of his Extreme is the 1974 television special recorded at Kcet in Hollywood that was produced by Zappa and aired only in France and Switzerland.  The program, as thoroughly tweezed and produced by Zappa for his own Honker Home Video label, includes the following musical performances by Zappa and his band: T”he Dog Breath Variations/ Uncle Meat,” “Montana,” “Florentine Pogen,” “Stink-Foot,” “Pygmy Twylyte,” “Room Service,” “Inca Roads,” “Oh No,” Son of Orange County,” “More Trouble Every Day” and “A Token of My Extreme.”  In the words of Zappa himself as he said it on The Mike Douglas Show in 1976, “This is  put together with my own money and my own time and it’s been offered to television networks and to syndication and it has been steadfastly rejected by the American television industry.

title: Classic Albums: Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!

overview: This programme tells the story behind the conception, recording and release of this groundbreaking album. By use of interviews, musical demonstration, performance, archive footage and returning to the multi tracks with Ahmet Zappa and Joe Travers we discover how Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention created the album with the help of legendary African- American producer Tom Wilson.

original_title: Classic Albums: Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!

title: Frank Zappa: Live in Barcelona

overview: Frank Zappa's May 17, 1988 concert performance was captured and broadcast by Televisión Española.  None of the song performances would make it onto albums showcasing this iteration of Zappa's band, his last touring rock group.  The broadcast itself would not be used by Zappa either, as the television station presented him with a faulty VHS instead of the master tape.  This concert video lives on only as a bootleg.

title: Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko

overview: For the past ten years Zappa in composing has turned away from Rock and Roll music - for which he first became famous - and has been working on new, contemporary, orchestral electronic music; in solitude and beyond any commercial conventions or commitments. It is the first time that Zappa has allowed a film crew to study him during compositional work, actually filming the first moments of a new compositional process. By contrast, in a staged interview Zappa gives comments on music. This film seeks to reveal the sensetivities of Zappa's personality and character also beyond narrative content.

title: All My Loving

overview: Originally a BBC documentary, this film by Tony Palmer about the 1960's music scene was later released as a standalone DVD by the BFI

title: Cocaine Blues

overview: A look at the problems associated with cocaine use, including the toll it takes, not only on the users themselves but on society in general.

title: The Male Swagger

title: Porridge and kerosene

overview: Mats Öberg, born 1971 in Umeå, Sweden, has been living in Stockholm for many years, where he moved when he entered the Royal Academy of Music, where for two and a half years he studied individual music and, among other things, studied with the pianist Stefan Nilsson. Frank Zappa is one of Mats Öberg's idols. Together with drummer Morgan Ågren, Mats formed the group Zappatetoot early on, which only played Zappa covers. Then when Frank Zappa played in Stockholm in 1988, Mats and Morgon had the opportunity to meet him and also sit in the band. It was the beginning of a continued collaboration which meant that they both got to participate in the projects Zappa's Universe and Zappa at Lincoln Center in 1993.

title: The Revenge of the Dead Indians

overview: This is a full-length documentary honoring the life and work of American composer and artist John Cage. Cage is considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. This documentary features interviews with various personalities from different fields as they introduce us to the life and work of this great American artist.

title: Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention - The Lost Broadcast: The Beat Club '68

overview: This DVD contains a filmed rehearsal of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention at the legendary Beat Club in Bremen, Germany, on 6th October 1968. The music is largely one long improvisatory continuous performance rather than a run-through of their greatest hits, but is punctuated by Zappa directing the band to play the opening themes of some of his more well-known pieces.

original_title: Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention - The Lost Broadcast: The Beat Club '68

title: Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The Documentary

overview: This is the first documentary covering Steve Vai's life from 1960 to 1990. (Co-written by Steve Vai.) Cover Vai's life growing up all the way until 1990's Passion and Warfare album.

original_title: Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The Documentary

title: Your vote

overview: Educational film convincing kids to vote, hosted by Frank Zappa.

title: From Straight to Bizarre

overview: Documentary about the rise and fall of Frank Zappa's record labels, Bizarre and Straight which featured a collection of acts that included: Alice Cooper, The GTOs, and Wild Man Fischer.

title: The Wrecking Crew

overview: A celebration of the musical work of a group of session musicians known as "The Wrecking Crew." a band that provided back-up instrumentals to such legendary recording artists as Frank Sinatra, The Beach Boys, and Bing Crosby.

title: Frank Zappa & The Mothers: Roxy: The Movie

overview: A Frank Zappa show goes way beyond a mere concert – it is an experience…a flight of improvisation, musicianship, and cerebral cynicism. An unparalleled Composer and Guitarist, Zappa redefined rock n roll paradigms by introducing into the mix his favorite influences from classical music, jazz, blues, Doo-wop, traditional and non-traditional music. And he did so with unparalleled humor and audacity. But it was the music itself that influenced generations of musicians and, quite frankly, blew minds. Roxy: The Movie, filmed over three nights in December 1973, at the Roxy Theatre in Hollywood, CA, is a powerful display of this experience, and reveals what made him such a pioneering musical revolutionary.

original_title: Frank Zappa & The Mothers: Roxy: The Movie

title: Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

overview: Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.

original_title: Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

title: Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention: Live at Whisky a Go Go 1968

overview: Shot on July 23, 1968, this historical 16mm footage of Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention at Whisky a Go Go in West Hollywood, CA has been newly restored from the Vault! The film has been newly synced to the 2023 mixes, marking the first time it's ever been seen with audio. Frank Zappa never had the opportunity to see this footage synced to the music. Now you do.  The film was shot in increments and features silent performance footage of The Mothers along with scenes involving The Freaks and the premier of The GTO's (Girls Together Outrageously). In the audience were Flo & Eddie (The Turtles), John Mayall, Elliot Ingber (The Fraternity Of Man), Alice Cooper and members of the Rolling Stones.

original_title: Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention: Live at Whisky a Go Go 1968

title: Frank Zappa

overview: Produced for Dutch television and directed by Roelof Kiers, this documentary offers an observational portrait of musician and composer Frank Zappa in the early 1970s. Filmed at Zappa’s home and during rehearsals and performances with the Mothers of Invention, the program combines interviews, backstage scenes, and concert footage recorded at the Fillmore West featuring Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan. Alongside performances and informal conversations, Zappa reflects on his musical influences, creative methods, and views on American culture and politics while working on projects such as 200 Motels.

title: Frank Zappa: A Pioneer of the Future of Music

overview: Frank Scheffer's (collage like) documentary on the American composer and rock guitarist Frank Zappa, as broadcast by VPRO in the Netherlands April 22,2007. Most of what’s on here is seen before, particularly in Roelof Kier’s 1971 documentary and/or Scheffer’s own documentary “A present day composer refuses to die”. But there is some new stuff too, particularly interviews with Denny Walley, Haskell Wekler, Elliot Ingber and Bruce Fowler.

original_title: Frank Zappa: A Pioneer of the Future of Music

title: The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers

overview: An intelligent, fearless boy living in a superstitious Transylvanian village goes out into the world to figure out what everyone else is afraid of, "the shivers." A king hires him to rid his castle of ghosts and evil spirits, expecting him to die like all who have tried before him, but the boy is more fearless than he could have known.

original_title: The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers

title: The Artist Formerly Known As Captain Beefheart

overview: Elaine Shepherd’s classic BBC documentary, introduced and narrated by John Peel.  Completely wonderful, a 50 minute joy: reviews, articles, blog posts, etc. relating to The Artist Formerly Known As Captain Beefheart.

original_title: The Artist Formerly Known As Captain Beefheart

title: You Are What You Eat

overview: A montage of the weird, a freak-out film that appeared when the expression was in fashion and in flower, along with the flower people. The film was one of the first exponents of the mobile camera-rock track-optical effect school of filmmaking, and it is much a document as it is a documentary. A repellent and fascinating depiction of the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, along with Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco and the East Village in New York. Tiny Tim amounts to something resembling a recurring motif and narrator.

title: Marian Briozzo

overview: Influential animator, Hungarian immigrant and lifelong Frank Zappa enthusiast Gábor Csupó recounts his chance meeting and eventual friendship with the musician himself.

title: Mondo Hollywood

overview: A documentary analyzing the social, political and cultural climate of Hollywood in the mid-1960s.

title: Služební cesta podporučíka Svěráka

title: The Yellow Shark

overview: This live recording was culled from seven September 1992 concerts given in Vienna, Berlin, and Frankfurt by the Ensemble Modern, a Frankfurt-based chamber orchestra that performs only contemporary music. Composed and conducted by Frank Zappa.

title: Decade

overview: Interviews with personalities including John Mellencamp, Spike Lee, Lou Reed, Roseanne Barr, David Byrne, George Michael and more, as they reflect on the 1980s.

title: Derailroaded

overview: A documentary on the life and music of manic-depressive, paranoid-schizophrenic cult music icon Wild Man Fischer.

title: Frank Zappa: The Freak Out List

overview: On the liner notes to Freak Out!, the 1967 debut album by Zappa's original band the Mothers of Invention, Zappa listed some seventy-two names on the liner notes and cited them as influences. The Freak Out List intends to explore who these artists are and what influence they had on Zappa's music. This listing encompasses all sorts of music, from classical composer Edgar Varese to R&B star Johnny "Guitar" Watson to jazzman Eric Dolphy to flamenco guitarist Sabicas. You can hear for instance, how the esoteric classical influence of Varese shaped Zappa's long-form epics like "Lumpy Gravy" or how Dolphy's instrumental prowess led Zappa to incorporate jazz-fusion on albums like Weasels Ripped My Flesh! (1970), which even included a song titled "The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue." Interviews with various Zappa biographers and music historians as well as musicians George Duke, Ian Underwood, and Don Preston, all of whom played in the Mothers at one time or another, help add additional context.

title: Zappa

overview: With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star Frank Zappa. Alex also utilizes in this picture thousands of hours of painstakingly digitized videos, photos, audio, writing, and everything in between from Zappa's private archives. These chronicles have never been brought to a public audience before, until now.

title: Cover Your Ears

overview: When does art become obscenity? Cover Your Ears takes a close look at this question through the lens of the past 100 years of music and the ever-evolving discussion of legal and moral lines in the industry

title: Pražákům, těm je hej

overview: The story begins in 1984 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, few years before the end of Communist era. The band Pražský výběr (Prague's selection) has just received the news thier 5-year ban has expired and they are alowed to perform once again. This half fantasy half document about the band would draw the atmosphere of middle european late Communist era and the eufory of it's end.

title: Pink Floyd: Amougies Pop Festival

overview: Actuel Festival, Mont de lnclus, Amougies, Belgium  25 October, 1969, was restored from The Early Years 1965-1972 - Vol. 3 1969 Dramatis/ation  Features Frank Zappa

title: Frank Zappa, John Lennon & Yoko Ono: At Fillmore East

overview: Video of the famous performance released by both Zappa and Lennon

original_title: Frank Zappa, John Lennon & Yoko Ono: At Fillmore East

title: Frank Zappa: Opopoppa Stockholm, Sweden

overview: TV concert from Zappa, footage from the warm-up was also tapped

title: Frank Zappa: Roxy, 1973

overview:
On April 1, 2007, Zappa.com unveiled a redesigned website, which included the 30-minute segment from the Roxy performances, which had been used at the Zappa Plays Zappa concerts, on its new videos page.
 The clip for "Montana" was included as a bonus feature of the Classic Albums: Apostrophe(')/Over-Nite Sensation DVD, which was released on May 1, 2007.
 Neither song was included in ROXY the Movie

title: Frank Zappa: Cheaper Than Cheep

overview: The 1974 unreleased made-for-TV concert movie ‘Cheaper Than Cheep’ is finally being released 50 years later! This never-before-heard-or-seen two-hour concert reveals the most intimate performance ever captured from the 1974 Mothers line-up, direct from the lovingly resurrected and restored original vault audio and videotape masters.

title: Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

overview: Untold stories behind the culture-defining and newsmaking musical performances, sketches and cameos of the past 50 years.

original_title: Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

title: Nova '78

overview: Resurrected through UK-led archival restoration NOVA 78' shows never-before-seen footage of the legendary Nova Convention where William Burroughs, Patti Smith, Zappa, Ginsberg and more collided in an explosion of ideas, art and rebellion.

title: 200 Motels

title: 200 Motels

title: The Amazing Mr. Bickford

title: The Amazing Mr. Bickford

title: Frank Zappa: Baby Snakes

title: Frank Zappa: Baby Snakes

title: Uncle Meat

title: Uncle Meat

title: Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko

title: Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko

title: Band from Utopia: A Tribute to the Music of Frank Zappa

overview: Band from Utopia A Tribute to the Music of Frank Zappa review This tribute to the music of Frank Zappa was recorded live at Jazzopen, Stuttgart, July, 1994. Band from Utopia A Tribute to the Music of Frank Zappa DVD The band is comprised of Ike Willis, Bruce Fowler, Bobby Martin, Tommy Mars, Tom Fowler, Arthur Barrow, Ed Mann, Jay Dittamo, and Chad Wackerman. Band from Utopia A Tribute to the Music of Frank Zappa movie  This appropriately offbeat tribute to Frank Zappa, filmed live in Stuttgart, includes performances from Ike Willis, Bobby Martin, Tommy Mars, and Jay Dittamo playing enduringly popular hits like "Bamboozled by Love," "Be-Bop Tango," and "Sofa."  This is the only Arthur Barrow video. Band from Utopia A Tribute to the Music of Frank Zappa video Stars also making their debut in this video: Tom Fowler, Jay Dittamo, Ike Willis.

original_title: Band from Utopia: A Tribute to the Music of Frank Zappa

title: Video from Hell

title: Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme

title: Run Home Slow

overview: Rugged cowgirl, Nell Hagen sets out to retaliate for the hanging of her father Judd, who ruled their valley with an iron fist before the natives revolted. She is accompanied by her brothers, Ritt and Kirby, a hump-backed half-wit, and their sensuous cousin Julie Ann. The family then robs a bank, kills two tellers, enacts their revenge before heading for the border where their own family drama gets really mean and nasty.

title: The World's Greatest Sinner

overview: A bored insurance salesman quits his job to go into politics. He first starts preaching about how man is greater than he thinks and that man can live forever. He ends up forming his own political party, "The Eternal Man" party. He begins to be referred to as "God". Then he starts having doubts about the eternalness of man.

title: Frank Zappa: Baby Snakes

title: Video from Hell

title: Video from Hell

title: Video from Hell

title: Video from Hell

title: Cheepnis

title: Cheepnis

title: Cheepnis

title: Cheepnis

title: Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!

title: Cousteau: Alaska: Outrage at Valdez

overview: On March 24, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in the pristine waters of Alaska's Prince William Sound, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil. Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of Jacques Cousteau, takes us on a voyage to investigate first-hand the devastating impact of the U.S.'s largest oil spill. Amid the majestic mountains and ice floes of this serene setting, the leaking oil spreads like a virus staining and often killing everything it encounters. Harbor seals, sea otters, and bald eagles fall victim to the tragic accident.

title: The Yellow Shark

title: The Yellow Shark

title: Frank Zappa: The Torture Never Stops

title: Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme

title: Burnt Weeny Sandwich

title: Frank Zappa: Baby Snakes

title: Frank Zappa: Baby Snakes

title: Uncle Meat

title: The Amazing Mr. Bickford

title: The Amazing Mr. Bickford

title: Zappa

title: 200 Motels

title: Beasts

overview: Short animated Hungarian film. Based on works of Hungarian avant-garde artists: Wahorn András, fe Lugossy László, and ef Zámbó István.

title: 1982. L'estate di Frank

overview: in 1982 there was a boy like you who loved the Beatles and the Rolling Stones but most of all he loved Frank Zappa.... that boy was me and today 30 years after the concert at the Palermo stadium finished amidst police tear gas, I retrace Frank Zappa's journey to Palermo and Partinico, the city from which his father and grandfather left for the USA at the beginning of the 20th century. Now Frank's children, Dweezil and Diva, are going to Sicily for the first time, together with Massimo Bassoli, a friend of Frank's, who had accompanied him in 1982. It is a journey towards their Sicilian origins .... (Salvo  Cuccia )

title: The Manipulator

overview: An insane Hollywood makeup artist kidnaps a woman and keeps her prisoner in a prop-filled warehouse.

title: Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!

title: Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!

title: Burnt Weeny Sandwich

title: Frank Zappa

title: Frank Zappa: Roxy, 1973

title: Frank Zappa: Cheaper Than Cheep

title: Frank Zappa: Cheaper Than Cheep

title: Happy Birthday to John

overview: On October 9, 1972, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse hosted an exhibition of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s work, designed by Fluxus artist George Maciunas. That same day, friends including Ringo Starr, Allen Ginsberg, and Paul Krassner gathered to celebrate Lennon’s birthday. Jonas Mekas’s film records the event in both image and sound, capturing the spirit of the moment and the community around Lennon and Ono.

title: Luden’s Cough Drops

overview: In 1967, Ed Seeman hired Frank Zappa for $2,000 to do the soundtrack for this animated TV commercial that he was animating and producing.  It won a CLIO award for "Best Use of Sound" and was the beginning of a two year relationship that had Seeman filming 14 hours of footage to be used for Zappa's film "Uncle Meat."

title: 200 Motels

title: Marc-André Hamelin @ Ruhr Piano Festival 2025

overview: In Duisburg, Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin—world-renowned for his exceptional technique—delivered a standout performance at the Ruhr Piano Festival, to great acclaim from both audiences and critics alike. The program featured works by Joseph Haydn, John Oswald, Nikolai Medtner, and Sergei Rachmaninoff, as well as one of his own compositions, “Boîte à musique.”

original_title: Marc-André Hamelin Klavierfestival Ruhr 2025

title: The Residents - A Documentary

overview: An independent documentary about the world's most mysterious band, The Residents. The film covers stories, concerts, interviews, and rare clips that trace the trajectory of the American group over more than half a century. Awarded by the band itself, this production is the first and only one in Portuguese that dared to delve deep into the cryptic archives of the world's most anonymous group.

original_title: The Residents (A Banda Mais Misteriosa do Mundo) - O Documentário

title: Sex in Today's World

title: Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution

title: Video from Hell

title: Cheepnis

title: The Making of 200 Motels

title: 200 Motels

title: Frank Zappa: The Torture Never Stops

title: Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere

title: Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note

title: Burnt Weeny Sandwich

title: Zapped: Frank Zappa par Frank Zappa

title: Funny

title: Hey, Hey, We're The Monkees

title: Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s

title: Fuck

title: EAV Rarities

title: Super Duper Alice Cooper

title: Deep Purple: Made In Japan

title: Led Zeppelin Played Here

title: Head

title: Frank Zappa: Music In Review

title: Tom Arnold: The Naked Truth

title: Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

title: The Rolling Stones - The First 20 Years

title: Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

title: Echo in the Canyon

title: Take Your Pills

title: Larry Flynt for President

title: The Amazing Mr. Bickford

title: Frank Zappa: Baby Snakes

title: Frank Zappa: We Don't Mess Around

title: Uncle Meat

title: Frank Zappa: The Broadcast Archives

title: Frank Zappa - Live in Paris 1980

title: The Big T.N.T. Show

title: The Art of Dissent

title: The Velvet Underground

title: Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind

title: Hart & Soul - The Hart Family Anthology

title: Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!

title: Frank Zappa: A Token of His Extreme

title: Frank Zappa - John, Dan And Me

title: Rock this Town

title: Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme

title: Frank Zappa: Live in Barcelona

title: Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko

title: All My Loving

title: Cocaine Blues

title: Porridge and kerosene

title: The Male Swagger

title: The Revenge of the Dead Indians

title: Your vote

title: From Straight to Bizarre

title: The Wrecking Crew

title: Frank Zappa

title: You Are What You Eat

title: Marian Briozzo

title: Mondo Hollywood

title: Služební cesta podporučíka Svěráka

title: The Yellow Shark

title: Decade

title: Derailroaded

title: Frank Zappa: The Freak Out List

title: Zappa

title: Cover Your Ears

title: Pražákům, těm je hej

title: Pink Floyd: Amougies Pop Festival

title: Frank Zappa: Opopoppa Stockholm, Sweden

title: Frank Zappa: Roxy, 1973

title: Frank Zappa: Cheaper Than Cheep

title: Nova '78

title: 200 Motels

title: 200 Motels

title: The Amazing Mr. Bickford

title: The Amazing Mr. Bickford

title: Frank Zappa: Baby Snakes

title: Frank Zappa: Baby Snakes

title: Uncle Meat

title: Uncle Meat

title: Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko

title: Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko

title: Video from Hell

title: Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme

title: Run Home Slow

title: The World's Greatest Sinner

title: Frank Zappa: Baby Snakes

title: Video from Hell

title: Video from Hell

title: Video from Hell

title: Video from Hell

title: Cheepnis

title: Cheepnis

title: Cheepnis

title: Cheepnis

title: Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!

title: Cousteau: Alaska: Outrage at Valdez

title: The Yellow Shark

title: The Yellow Shark

title: Frank Zappa: The Torture Never Stops

title: Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme

title: Burnt Weeny Sandwich

title: Frank Zappa: Baby Snakes

title: Frank Zappa: Baby Snakes

title: Uncle Meat

title: The Amazing Mr. Bickford

title: The Amazing Mr. Bickford

title: Zappa

title: 200 Motels

title: 1982. L'estate di Frank

title: Beasts

title: The Manipulator

title: Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!

title: Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!

title: Burnt Weeny Sandwich

title: Frank Zappa

title: Frank Zappa: Roxy, 1973

title: Frank Zappa: Cheaper Than Cheep

title: Frank Zappa: Cheaper Than Cheep

title: Happy Birthday to John

title: Luden’s Cough Drops

title: 200 Motels

title: The Residents - A Documentary


Ann Turkel

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Ann Kathryn Turkel (born July 16, 1946 in New York, New York, United States) is an American actress and model.

Turkel studied at the Musical Theatre Academy.

She was photographed for American Vogue. Patrick Lichfield captured images of her on location in England, the Bahamas and Sardinia during the early seventies and included them in his 1981 book The Most Beautiful Women.

She has starred in television film, her first major roles occurring in the 1974 film 99 and 44/100% Dead and 1976's The Cassandra Crossing, both alongside her future husband Richard Harris; they were divorced in 1982. Despite their divorce she and Harris remained good friends and when Harris died in 2002 Turkel was so saddened and called him a mentor and good friend.

She portrayed comic strip heroine Modesty Blaise in a 1982 TV pilot.

Description above from the Wikipedia article Ann Kathryn Turkel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Murder, She Wrote

overview: An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

character: Barbara Bennington

original_name: Murder, She Wrote

original_language: en

Night Court

overview: An eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on there.

character: Eve Gardner

original_name: Night Court

Knight Rider

overview: Michael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead by his assailants. He is rescued by Wilton Knight, a wealthy, dying millionaire and inventor who arranges life-saving surgery, including a new face and a new identity--that of Michael Knight. Michael is then given a special computerized and indestructible car called the Knight Industries Two Thousand (nicknamed KITT), and a mission: apprehend criminals who are beyond the reach of the law. The series depicts Michael's exploits as he and KITT battle the forces of evil on behalf of the Foundation for Law and Government.

character: Adrianne Margeaux

original_name: Knight Rider

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

overview: Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show stars Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner as divorced housewife Amanda King and top-level "Agency" operative Lee Stetson who begin a strange association, and eventual romance, after encountering one another in a train station.

original_name: Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Hollywood Beat

overview: Hollywood Beat is a mid-1980s American television police drama starring Jack Scalia, Jay Acovone, Edward Winter, and John Matuszak. The series aired Saturday night at 8:00 p.m Eastern time.  A pair of undercover cops, Nick McCarren (Jack Scalia) and Jack Rado (Jay Acovone) cruise the filthy, neon-lit streets of Hollywood, looking for crime in all the right places as rock music blares in the background.

character: Lita Treadwell

original_name: Hollywood Beat

Matt Houston

overview: Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by Lawrence Gordon, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling.

original_name: Matt Houston

Masquerade

overview: Masquerade is an American espionage television series that aired for a few months on ABC in the spring of 1983.

original_name: Masquerade

Silk Stalkings

overview: Silk Stalkings is a crime drama television series.  The series portrays the daily lives of two detectives who solve sexually-based crimes of passion among the ultra-rich of Palm Beach, Florida.

character: Roxanne Dockweiler

original_name: Silk Stalkings

Knight Rider

character: Bianca Morgan

character: Adrianne St. Clair

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

overview: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

character: Self

original_name: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Street Hawk

overview:
Street Hawk is an American television series that aired for 13 episodes on ABC in 1985. The series is a Limekiln and Templar Production in association with Universal Television. Its central characters were created by Paul M. Belous and Robert "Bob" Wolterstorff, and its core format was developed by Bruce Lansbury, who had initially commissioned the program's creation. This series was originally planned for the fall of 1984, Mondays at 8:00PM Eastern/7:00PM Central. However, ABC executives changed their minds when the summer series Call to Glory did well, and Street Hawk was pushed to mid-season. Street Hawk made its debut on January 4, 1985 on ABC at 9:00PM Eastern/8:00PM Central and ran until May 16, 1985.

Reruns aired on the USA Network on Saturdays at 10:00AM from 1990-91.

character: Melanie Ryan / Katherine Reese

original_name: Street Hawk

The Hunger

overview:
The Hunger is a British/Canadian television horror anthology series, co-produced by Scott Free Productions, Telescene Film Group Productions and the Canadian pay-TV channel The Movie Network. Though it shares a title with the feature film The Hunger the series has no direct plot or character connection to the film, and was created by Jeff Fazio.

Originally shown on the Sci Fi Channel in the UK, The Movie Network in Canada and Showtime in the US, the series was broadcast from 1997 to 2000, and is internally organized into two seasons. Each episode was based around an independent story introduced by the host; Terence Stamp hosted each episode for the first season, and was replaced in the second season by David Bowie. Stories tended to focus on themes of self-destructive desire and obsession, with a strong component of soft-core erotica; popular tropes for the stories included cannibalism, vampires, sex, and poison.

character: Woman

original_name: The Hunger

origin_country: CA GB US

Highlander: The Series

overview: Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.

character: Kristin

original_name: Highlander: The Series

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

overview: Can you tell the difference between fact and fiction? Several stories of strange, mysterious and incredible occurrences are chronicled during each episode. It is up to the viewer to decide which stories actually happened and which were completely fabricated by the show’s writers. The answer is revealed by Jonathan Frakes at the conclusion of each episode.

character: Mrs. Richards (segment "Epitaph")

original_name: Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

Riptide

overview: The cases of a private investigations agency run by two Vietnam War veterans and their computer geek friend from high school, armed with toughness, their own helicopter, and the third's technical ability.

character: Denise

original_name: Riptide

The Mike Douglas Show

overview: The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.

original_name: The Mike Douglas Show

The Merv Griffin Show

original_name: The Merv Griffin Show

Worlds Beyond

overview: Worlds Beyond is a British television anthology broadcast on ITV from 1986 to 1988, based on real-life supernatural experiences described in archival documents from the Society for Psychical Research. A book was also released to accompany the series.

character: Helen Scott

original_name: Worlds Beyond

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english_name: English

Deutsch

Ann Turkel

biography:
Ann Kathryn Turkel (* 16. Juli 1946 in New York City, USA) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin und ein Model.

Turkel studierte an der Musical Theatre Academy.

Sie wurde für die amerikanische Vogue fotografiert. Patrick Lichfield fotografierte sie Anfang der 1970er-Jahre in England, auf den Bahamas und in Sardinien und veröffentlichte die Bilder in seinem 1981 erschienenen Buch „The Most Beautiful Women“.

Sie spielte in Fernsehfilmen mit. Ihre ersten größeren Rollen hatte sie 1974 in „99 and 44/100% Dead“ und 1976 in „The Cassandra Crossing“, jeweils an der Seite ihres späteren Ehemanns Richard Harris. Die Ehe wurde 1982 geschieden. Trotz der Scheidung blieben Turkel und Harris gute Freunde. Nach Harris’ Tod im Jahr 2002 war Turkel sehr traurig und bezeichnete ihn als Mentor und guten Freund.

Sie verkörperte 1982 die Comic-Heldin Modesty Blaise in einem Fernseh-Pilotfilm.

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biography:
Ann Kathryn Turkel (* 16. Juli 1946 in New York City, New York) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin und ehemaliges Fotomodell.

Turkel wuchs in Manhattan auf und studierte an der Musical Theatre Academy. Im Alter von 16 Jahren wurde sie von einer Mitarbeiterin der Vogue als Fotomodell entdeckt und war kurz darauf auf dem Titelblatt der Zeitschrift zu sehen. Danach wurde sie von Firmen wie Revlon und Chanel für Werbeanzeigen gebucht. 1968 trat sie in der Filmkomödie Papierlöwe mit Alan Alda und Lauren Hutton erstmals in einer kleinen Nebenrolle in einem Spielfilm auf. 1974 erhielt sie eine größere Nebenrolle an der Seite von Richard Harris in John Frankenheimers Actionfilm König Ballermann, für welche sie als beste Nachwuchsdarstellerin für den Golden Globe Award nominiert wurde. Noch im selben Jahr heiratete sie Harris und in der Folge waren beide in mehreren Spielfilmen zusammen zu sehen, darunter Treffpunkt Todesbrücke und Rendezvous mit dem Tod. Für den Soundtrack zu Treffpunkt Todesbrücke sang sie auch das Lied I’m Still On My Way. Außerdem veröffentlichte sie in Frankreich eine Single, Don’t Forget About Me.

1982 wurde die Ehe mit Harris geschieden. Turkel war in den darauf folgenden Jahren als Gaststar in verschiedenen Fernsehserien wie Fantasy Island, Knight Rider, Love Boat und Street Hawk zu sehen. Zudem war sie in verschiedenen Fernsehfilmen zu sehen und spielte die Titelrolle der Modesty Blaise im gleichnamigen Pilotfilm, welcher aber nicht als Fernsehserie verwirklicht wurde. Zuletzt hatte sie 2006 eine kleine Nebenrolle in Tony Scotts Science-Fiction-Film Déjà Vu – Wettlauf gegen die Zeit.

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biography: Ann Kathryn Turkel (Nova York, 16 de juliol de 1946) és una actriu i antiga model nord-americana, coneguda per les seves col·laboracions i el seu matrimoni amb l'actor Richard Harris.

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title: The Cassandra Crossing

overview: Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.

character: Susan

original_title: The Cassandra Crossing

title: Deep Space

overview: Secretly engineered and blasted into space by government scientists, a vile monster crash-lands back on Earth and begins killing everyone it encounters. As the death toll rises, veteran cop McLemore bravely steps forward to crush the scary creature.

character: Carla Sandbourn

original_title: Deep Space

title: Humanoids from the Deep

overview: After a new cannery introduces scientifically augmented salmon to a seaside town in the Pacific Northwest, a species of mysterious, mutated sea creatures begin killing the men and raping the women.

character: Dr. Susan Drake

original_title: Humanoids from the Deep

title: Golden Rendezvous

overview: First Officer John Carter is aboard a cruise ship hijacked by terrorists who plan to steal gold bullion from a U.S. Treasury ship, using a nuclear bomb as leverage

character: Susan Beresford

original_title: Golden Rendezvous

title: 99 and 44/100% Dead

overview: Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's enemy, Big Eddie.

character: Buffy

title: Face to Face with The Fear

overview: The making of The Fear

original_title: Face to Face with The Fear

title: Portrait of a Hitman

overview: A professional hitman is hired to kill a brain surgeon. However, it turns out that not only are he and the surgeon old friends, but they are both in love with the same woman.

character: Cathey

original_title: Portrait of a Hitman

title: The Fear

overview: Richard, a college student who has decided to focus his attention on the study of fear, invites a group of friends up to his family's secluded mountain cabin for the weekend. Soon, a lifelike, wooden carving of a man begins stalking and killing them.

character: Leslie

original_title: The Fear

title: Modesty Blaise

overview:
Pilot for a never-made TV series based upon the popular comic strip character.
 Adventurer Modesty Blaise and knife thrower Willie Garvin - retired ex-criminals living in California with driver Weng - first save and then protect a young computer expert from a criminal organization, led by the evil Debbie La Forge. .

character: Modesty Blaise

original_title: Modesty Blaise

title: White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd

overview: When '30s film star Thelma Todd dies mysteriously, her relationship with New York mobster Lucky Luciano is investigated.

character: Gloria Swanson

title: Paper Lion

overview: Sportswriter George Plimpton poses as a rookie quarterback for the Detroit Lions for a "Sports Illustrated" article.

title: Ravagers

overview: In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adventurer and his "pleasure girl" try to find their way to a rumored safe haven called the Land of Genesis.

title: Disorientated

overview: A man struggling with his identity travels to Spain as a tutor and falls in love with one of his students. Sex, love and ultimately murder ensue.

title: Death Ray 2000

overview: A flamboyant secret agent from UNIT, a secret counterespionage group, teams with a lady spy to retrieve a stolen device capable of destroying the world from the clutches of a sinister munitions magnate. Pilot film for the television series "A Man Called Sloane" (1979).

title: Massarati and the Brain

overview: A secret agent searches for a sunken treasure of rare coins. He must battle a Nazi who is also searching for the treasure, and is helped by a 10-year-old genius who builds electronic weapons for him.

title: Matt Helm

overview: In this pilot film for the later series, a former secret agent, now a private investigator, is hired to protect a beautiful film star and gets involved with black marketeers and gun runners.

title: Touch Me

overview: Bridgette is an aspiring actress who teaches aerobics at a local gym that's run by the womanizing Adam. After a tryst with Adam, Bridgette scores a role in a big play, but then learns that a former boyfriend is dying of AIDS. While preparing to get tested, Bridgette suspects Adam of cheating on her, and must face the HIV tests alone, which shockingly come back positive. Building a support network, including a penitent Adam, Bridgette faces her own mortality.

title: Déjà Vu

overview: Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime.

title: Chance of a Lifetime

overview: Since the death of her husband 10 years ago, Evelyn has been working hard for her company, but had no private life. Now her doctor shocks her with the news that she may live only another 6 months. Spontanely she follows a TV ad and sets out for vacation in Mexico. There she meets widower Lloyd and they fall in love, go bungee jumping... until she gets another diagnosis from her doctor.

title: The Cassandra Crossing

title: Deep Space

title: Humanoids from the Deep

title: Golden Rendezvous

title: 99 and 44/100% Dead

title: Face to Face with The Fear

title: Portrait of a Hitman

title: The Fear

title: Modesty Blaise

title: Paper Lion

title: Ravagers

title: Disorientated

title: Death Ray 2000

title: Massarati and the Brain

title: Matt Helm

title: Touch Me

title: Déjà Vu

title: Chance of a Lifetime


Adam Wingard

biography:
Adam Wingard (/ˈwɪŋɡɑːrd/ WING-gard; born December 3, 1982) is an American filmmaker. He has been a film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, cinematographer, actor, and composer in numerous American films.

Following an early career as a member of the mumblecore movement, he became notable for his works in the horror and action genres, especially the films You're Next (2011) and The Guest (2014) and the bigger-budget franchise films Blair Witch (2016), Death Note (2017), and Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), and its sequel Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024).

Description above from the Wikipedia article Adam Wingard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Outcast

job: Director

overview: Kyle Barnes has been plagued by possession since he was a child. Now an adult, he embarks on a spiritual journey to find answers, but what he uncovers could mean the end of life on Earth as we know it.

department: Directing

original_name: Outcast

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biography: 亚当·温加德（Adam Wingard），1982年12月3日出生于美国田纳西州橡树岭，美国导演、编剧、制作人、剪辑师、摄影师。

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Адам Вингард

biography: Адам Вингард (родился 3 декабря 1982 года) — американский кинорежиссёр и актёр. Он часто сотрудничает со сценаристом Саймоном Барреттом. Он наиболее известен как режиссёр фильмов «Тебе конец!» (2011), «Гость» (2014), «Ведьма из Блэр» (2016), «Тетрадь смерти» (2017), «Годзилла против Конга» (2021) и «Годзилла x Конг: Новая империя» (2024).

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亞當·温加德

biography: 亞當·温加德（Adam Wingard），1982 年 12 月 3 日出生於美國田納西州橡樹嶺，美國導演、編劇、製作人、剪輯師、攝影師。

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title: Karate Disaster

overview: A stunt goes wrong on the behind the scenes of this indie film shoot.

character: Michael

original_title: Karate Disaster

title: Pop Skull

overview: Addled prescription drug addict Daniel finds himself unraveling further under the stress of a recent breakup. Worse yet, he lives in a house haunted by nightmarish events from the past, images of which torment him in terrifying dreams. This hallucinatory horror film leaps off the screen with its disturbingly vivid visuals.

character: Raymond

original_title: Pop Skull

title: Neverending Night: The Making of Blair Witch

overview: A feature-length documentary on the making of Adam Wingard's Blair Witch (2016).

title: The ABCs of Death

overview: An ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children's educational ABC books, the film comprises 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free reign in choosing a word to create a story involving death.

character: Adam (segment "Q is for Quack")

original_title: The ABCs of Death

title: V/H/S

overview: When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire one rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they had bargained for.

character: Brad (segment "Tape 56")

original_title: V/H/S

title: Art History

overview: Tension mounts between a director and his lead actress on the set of a sexually explicit low-budget film.  As the actress and her co-star develop real feelings for each other, the director's jealousy erupts and he begins sabotaging his own production.

character: Bill

original_title: Art History

title: Marriage Material

overview: Emily and Andrew, a young couple living in Memphis, agree to babysit their friend’s 6-month-old for a day. The experience causes them to examine their own relationship and their feelings about marriage and children.

original_title: Marriage Material

title: V/H/S/2

overview: Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.

character: Herman (segment "Phase I Clinical Trials")

title: 24 Exposures

overview: Billy is a fetish photographer whose models begin to turn up dead. Michael, a melancholic cop, is tasked with investigating him.

character: Billy

original_title: 24 Exposures

title: Autoerotic

overview: Four interconnected Chicago couples explore the boundaries of self-pleasure and sexual exploration.

original_title: Autoerotic

title: The Zone

overview: A mysterious visitor spends the night at an apartment belonging to a young engaged couple and their friend. Over the course of the night and the following day he sleeps with all three roommates and then disappears, leading to conversations about God, life and filmmaking.

original_title: The Zone

title: She Dies Tomorrow

overview: Amy is ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When her skeptical friend Jane discovers Amy’s feeling of imminent death to be contagious, they both begin bizarre journeys through what might be the last day of their lives.

character: Dune Buggy Man

original_title: She Dies Tomorrow

title: The Beastmaster Chronicles

overview: Documentary about the making of the film The Beastmaster.

original_title: The Beastmaster Chronicles

title: Generation Terror

overview: Horror bleeds into the 21st Century in an incisive documentary looking back at the late 1990s film industry on a global scale to find out what happened at the turn of the millennium to allow for the huge wealth of horror films flooding out from all corners of the globe. From SCREAM (1996), THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999) and FINAL DESTINATION (2000), to WRONG TURN (2003), HOSTEL (2005) and SAW (2004), with insight from Joe Lynch, Xavier Gens and Bill Malone who track the technology, the industry and the societal changes behind the next generation of horror films.

original_title: Generation Terror

title: Home Sick

overview: A maniac with a suitcase full of razorblades unleashes a super human killer upon a group of kids in a small Alabama town. They must take up arms with a insane Chili enthusiast if they want to survive.

original_title: Home Sick

title: Pop Skull

job: Writer

title: Pop Skull

department: Writing

title: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

overview: Following their explosive showdown, Godzilla and Kong must reunite against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence – and our own.

original_title: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

title: A Horrible Way to Die

overview: An escaped murderer is in pursuit of his ex-girlfriend, who has fled to start a new life in a small town.

original_title: A Horrible Way to Die

title: V/H/S

job: Editor

title: Patton Oswalt: Werewolves and Lollipops

overview: This DVD is a recording of the show Patton Oswalt performed at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia . It's a version of his Werewolves and Lollipops show, second solo album, and he ranges from talking about Kentucky Fried Chicken's famous bowls to his work as television writer.

department: Editing

original_title: Patton Oswalt: Werewolves and Lollipops

job: Camera Operator

title: Patton Oswalt: Werewolves and Lollipops

department: Camera

title: You're Next

overview: When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.

original_title: You're Next

title: The ABCs of Death

title: Autoerotic

title: Autoerotic

title: Fear Street: 1994

overview: After a series of brutal slayings, a teen and her friends take on an evil force that's plagued their notorious town for centuries.

title: Marriage Material

title: V/H/S/2

title: V/H/S/2

title: Hardcore

title: The Guest

overview: A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.

title: Laura Panic

overview: Laura is in love with a man who hasn't quite noticed her yet. He's clearly not very observant, since she's been stalking him for days.  The first in Adam Wingard's "Forgot My Meds" trilogy of short films.

title: Paradox Mary

overview: Mary has a problem. And it’s right in front of her. It’s in front of everyone else too, only they haven’t recognized it yet.

title: Laura Panic

title: The Girlfriend

overview: A young woman is taken over by an evil entity on the way to meeting her boyfriend's parents for the first time.

title: Thousand Year Sleep

overview: Samantha, Lydia, Isabella, and Lisa. These four young women are about to learn that humanity is just an irrelevant flame burning nowhere in the vastness of space. Their dreams will be shattered and one man will marvel at the evil he has committed.

title: Paradox Mary

title: Thousand Year Sleep

title: Her Name Is Laura Panic

overview: Laura Panic is convinced that her boyfriend comes from outer space. Something will have to be done about it. The third in Adam Wingard's "Forgot My Meds" trilogy of short films.

title: Cerebella

overview: A young woman gets a hotel room and contends with sleep deprivation.  The second in Adam Wingard's "Forgot My Meds" trilogy of short films.

title: Cerebella

title: Her Name Is Laura Panic

title: The Last Survivors

overview: In the near future, society collapses and water becomes scarce. When a greedy water baron starts violently clearing out survivors, Kendal, a 17-year-old teenager, fights the baron's henchman to keep a well open.

title: What Fun We Were Having: 4 Stories About Date Rape

overview: An anthology film consisting of four segments, entitled "Hot Boys," "The Sleep Creep," "The Meat Man," and "Silver Bullets," each of which obliquely dramatizes an incident of sexual assault. The four stories take place in the same small American town on four different holidays: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Valentine's Day. "What Fun We Were Having" screened publicly once at the 2011 Fantasia International Film Festival, but received no further distribution.

title: You're Next

title: Laura Panic

title: Thousand Year Sleep

title: Laura Panic

title: Laura Panic

title: Paradox Mary

title: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

title: Paradox Mary

title: Thousand Year Sleep

title: Paradox Mary

title: The Girlfriend

title: Cerebella

title: Her Name Is Laura Panic

title: Cerebella

title: Autoerotic

title: Autoerotic

title: Blair Witch

overview: Students on a camping trip discover something sinister is lurking beyond the trees.

title: Death Note

overview: Light Turner finds a supernatural notebook and uses it to mete out death, attracting the attention of a detective, a demon and a girl in his class.

title: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

title: Don't Worry

overview: A young woman disappears from her home after recording a video message in which she implores her parents not to worry, leaving the people who know her to speculate as to her motivations. "Don't Worry" was written, shot and edited in 48 hours for the Sidewalk Scramble film festival, and went on to win Best Film, Best Director, Best Editing, and Best Cinematography.

title: Little Sister Gone

title: Little Sister Gone

title: Little Sister Gone

title: Little Sister Gone

title: Little Sister Gone

title: From the Perspective of a Dog

title: The Screaming Man

overview: Short film included on the DVD release of "Pop Skull." Premise unknown.

title: The Screaming Man

title: From the Perspective of a Dog

title: From the Perspective of a Dog

title: Blair Witch

title: Blair Witch

title: Her Name Is Laura Panic

title: Karate Disaster

title: Karate Disaster

title: Karate Disaster

title: Godzilla vs. Kong

overview: In a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerful forces of nature on the planet collide in a spectacular battle for the ages.

title: Onslaught

overview: When a rogue squad of genetically engineered super soldiers break loose in the desert, a badass Army sniper must unleash hell to protect her young daughter.

title: Onslaught

title: Ultra Modern

overview: A short abstract film about love and modernity, created for inclusion in the "60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero" project, for which directors from all over the world created one-minute short films which were screened one time only for free on a temporary public screen, after which both the screen and the sole print of the film were burned.

title: Ultra Modern

title: A Horrible Way to Die

title: The Guest

title: V/H/S

title: Art History

title: The Zone

title: Caitlin Plays Herself

overview: Caitlin, a young Chicago performance artist, struggles to create work that is both personal and political. A piece she performs about the BP oil spill sends her relationship into a tailspin because her onstage nudity bothers her boyfriend.

title: V/H/S

title: Seance

overview: At an elite boarding school for girls, six friends jokingly engage in a late night ritual, calling forth the spirit of a dead former student who reportedly haunts their halls. Before morning, one of the girls is dead, leaving the others wondering what they may have awakened.

title: 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

overview: An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was screened one time only on a purpose-built 20x12 meter public cinema screen in the Port of Tallinn, Estonia, on 22 December 2011. A special projector was constructed for the event which allowed the actual filmstrip to be burnt at the same time as the film was shown.

title: Marriage Material

title: Face/Off 2

overview: Legacy sequel to the 1997 John Woo film. Details TBA.

title: The Little One

overview: A night of babysitting takes a horrific turn when the baby goes missing.

title: The Girlfriend

title: The Little One

title: The Little One

title: Onslaught

title: Blackmail Boys

overview: After moving to Chicago for art school, Sam begins turning tricks to help pay the bills.

title: Karate Disaster

title: Pop Skull

title: The ABCs of Death

title: V/H/S

title: Art History

title: Marriage Material

title: V/H/S/2

title: 24 Exposures

title: Autoerotic

title: The Zone

title: She Dies Tomorrow

title: The Beastmaster Chronicles

title: Generation Terror

title: Home Sick

title: Pop Skull

title: Pop Skull

title: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

title: A Horrible Way to Die

title: V/H/S

title: Patton Oswalt: Werewolves and Lollipops

title: Patton Oswalt: Werewolves and Lollipops

title: You're Next

title: The ABCs of Death

title: Autoerotic

title: Autoerotic

title: Fear Street: 1994

title: Marriage Material

title: V/H/S/2

title: V/H/S/2

title: Hardcore

title: The Guest

title: The Girlfriend

title: Paradox Mary

title: Laura Panic

title: Thousand Year Sleep

title: Thousand Year Sleep

title: Paradox Mary

title: Laura Panic

title: Cerebella

title: Her Name Is Laura Panic

title: Cerebella

title: Her Name Is Laura Panic

title: The Last Survivors

title: You're Next

title: Thousand Year Sleep

title: Laura Panic

title: Laura Panic

title: Laura Panic

title: Thousand Year Sleep

title: Paradox Mary

title: Paradox Mary

title: Paradox Mary

title: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

title: The Girlfriend

title: Cerebella

title: Her Name Is Laura Panic

title: Cerebella

title: Autoerotic

title: Autoerotic

title: Blair Witch

title: Death Note

title: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

title: Don't Worry

title: Little Sister Gone

title: Little Sister Gone

title: Little Sister Gone

title: Little Sister Gone

title: Little Sister Gone

title: From the Perspective of a Dog

title: The Screaming Man

title: From the Perspective of a Dog

title: The Screaming Man

title: From the Perspective of a Dog

title: Blair Witch

title: Blair Witch

title: Karate Disaster

title: Karate Disaster

title: Her Name Is Laura Panic

title: Karate Disaster

title: Godzilla vs. Kong

title: Onslaught

title: Onslaught

title: Ultra Modern

title: Ultra Modern

title: A Horrible Way to Die

title: The Guest

title: V/H/S

title: Art History

title: The Zone

title: Caitlin Plays Herself

title: V/H/S

title: Seance

title: 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

title: Marriage Material

title: The Little One

title: The Little One

title: Face/Off 2

title: The Girlfriend

title: The Little One

title: Onslaught

title: Blackmail Boys