Woody Allen
Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, comedian, writer, musician, and playwright. Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him a notable American director. He is also distinguished by his rapid rate of production and his very large body of work. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema, among a wealth of other fields of interest. Allen developed a passion for music early on and is a celebrated jazz clarinetist. What began as a teenage avocation has led to regular public performances at various small venues in his hometown of Manhattan, with occasional appearances at various jazz festivals. Allen joined the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the New Orleans Funeral Ragtime Orchestra in performances that provided the film score for his 1973 comedy Sleeper, and performed in a rare European tour in 1996, which became the subject of the documentary Wild Man Blues.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 29.511 |
| Birthday | 1935-12-01 |
| Place of Birth | The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Woodie Allen, Allan Stewart Konigsberg, Вуди Аллен, วูดดี อัลเลน, 伍迪·艾伦, ウディ・アレン, 우디 앨런, وودي آلن, filmmaker, Filmmaker, Vudijs Allens, ვუდი ალენი, 우디 알렌, |
1979
Manhattan
7.749/2144
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best fr...
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Manhattan
1977
Annie Hall
7.751/3555
New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
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Annie Hall
1976
The Front
6.893/140
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
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The Front
1997
Deconstructing Harry
7.297/855
Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated fr...
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Deconstructing Harry
1993
Manhattan Murder Mystery
7.275/959
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
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Manhattan Murder Mystery
2000
Small Time Crooks
6.454/604
A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
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Small Time Crooks
1983
Zelig
7.46/773
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act l...
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Zelig
1986
Hannah and Her Sisters
7.508/904
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her...
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Hannah and Her Sisters
1971
Bananas
6.674/654
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebelli...
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Bananas
1980
Stardust Memories
6.972/370
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
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Stardust Memories
1995
Mighty Aphrodite
6.727/591
When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother i...
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Mighty Aphrodite
1969
Take the Money and Run
7.144/679
Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.
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Take the Money and Run
1973
Sleeper
6.901/694
Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels figh...
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Sleeper
1989
Crimes and Misdemeanors
7.477/777
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
1972
Play It Again, Sam
7.477/514
A neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca (1942) attempts to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married...
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Play It Again, Sam
1972
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
6.552/821
A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality. From aphrodisiacs to sexual perversion to the mystery of th...
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
1975
Love and Death
7.574/778
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
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Love and Death
1982
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
6.455/356
A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weeken...
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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
2000
Picking Up the Pieces
4.4/80
A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it actually belongs to a murdered spouse with a husband...
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Picking Up the Pieces
2002
Hollywood Ending
6.549/453
Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman fi...
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Hollywood Ending
1984
Broadway Danny Rose
7.192/406
A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, a...
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Broadway Danny Rose
2002
The Magic of Fellini
2.8/5
Documentary with interviews and clips of Fellini's movies.
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The Magic of Fellini
1992
Husbands and Wives
7/381
When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are...
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Husbands and Wives
1986
Meetin' WA
6.193/44
Revolutionary French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard conducts a twenty-five minute interview with influential and acclaimed American director Woody...
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Meetin' WA
2007
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
6.4/10
Scott Hicks documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished Western classical composer Philip Glass as he interacts with a...
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Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
1987
King Lear
6.188/24
A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civiliza...
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King Lear
1991
Shadows and Fog
6.777/320
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
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Shadows and Fog
2011
Woody Allen: A Documentary
6.868/151
Iconic writer, director, actor, comedian and musician Woody Allen allowed his life and creative process to be documented on-camera for the first time....
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Woody Allen: A Documentary
2012
To Rome with Love
5.773/1891
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful in...
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To Rome with Love
1997
Wild Man Blues
6.7/29
Wild Man Blues is a 1998 documentary film directed by Barbara Kopple, about the musical avocation of actor/director/comic Woody Allen. The film takes...
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Wild Man Blues
2002
Woody Allen: A Life in Film
5/5
An account of the life and work of US filmmaker Woody Allen as told by himself.
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Woody Allen: A Life in Film
1971
Woody Allen: Granada 1971
0/0
This is never-broadcast footage of Woody Allen being interviewed by Granada TV in Manchester in 1971 while he was in the UK to promote 'Bananas'.
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Woody Allen: Granada 1971
2005
The Outsider
6.2/5
Nicholas Jarecki follows director James Toback on the 12-day shoot of his thriller, When Will I Be Loved -- a movie made without a script or distribut...
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The Outsider
2000
Buñuel in Hollywood
0/0
This documentary traces the relationship of Buñuel with American culture and Hollywood. The program proposes a chronological journey through the Arago...
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Buñuel in Hollywood
1996
The Sunshine Boys
4.5/13
Two aging comedians who acrimoniously dissolved their act eight years earlier must overcome their differences when they have the chance for a lucrativ...
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The Sunshine Boys
2009
Vittorio D.
6.3/9
A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.
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Vittorio D.
2013
The Battle of Amfar
5.8/5
When AIDS struck in the early 1980s, a scientist and a movie star did not have to respond - but they did. Dr. Mathilde Krim and Elizabeth Taylor joine...
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The Battle of Amfar
1969
The Woody Allen Special
3/3
A Woody Allen special for CBS, in 1969.
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The Woody Allen Special
1991
Scenes from a Mall
5.2/66
A comedy about a married couple -- he's a sports lawyer, she's a psychologist -- which takes place on their 16th wedding anniversary, when they make s...
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Scenes from a Mall
1971
Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
5.667/21
Dr. Harvey Wallinger is one of Nixon's aides who rises through the ranks to become the "real" power behind the president.
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Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
1998
Antz
6.14/4134
A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a pa...
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Antz
2004
François Truffaut, une autobiographie
6.2/6
A documentary tracing the career of filmmaker François Truffaut through the testimony of collaborators and admirers.
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François Truffaut, une autobiographie
1977
Woody Allen: An American Comedy
7/1
Woody Allen talks about his career and his creative process with excerpts from some of his movies
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Woody Allen: An American Comedy
2000
The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside The Writer's Room
0/0
The Big Daddy of televised comedy sketches, Sid Caesar had millions of Americans holding their sides and howling at his uproarious antics and those of...
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The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside The Writer's Room
2000
The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating The Comedy
0/0
The Big Daddy of televised comedy sketches, Sid Caesar had millions of Americans holding their sides and howling at his uproarious antics and those of...
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The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating The Comedy
1979
Question de temps: Une heure avec Woody Allen
6/2
Woody Allen's interview with France Roche.
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Question de temps: Une heure avec Woody Allen
1965
Woody Allen: Standup Comic
10/1
In 1965, Woody Allen was in England filming "What's New, Pussycat?". He was invited by Granada Television in Manchester to film his stand-up act in fr...
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Woody Allen: Standup Comic
2021
How did Woody Allen become Woody Allen?
0/0
A documentary about the life and career of Woody Allen.
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How did Woody Allen become Woody Allen?
2006
Woody Allen on Ingmar Bergman
0/0
American director Woody Allen talks to English film critic Mark Kermode about the films of Ingmar Bergman. Allen has always been a champion of Bergman...
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Woody Allen on Ingmar Bergman
1980
To Woody Allen from Europe with Love
1/1
Initiated by producer-director Pierre Drouot, Woody Allen for the very first time agrees to let a filmmaker, Belgium's André Delvaux, film him during...
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To Woody Allen from Europe with Love
2006
Scoop
6.587/1501
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
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Scoop
2003
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
6.835/57
Brilliant, long in-the-works story of the life and art of the world's greatest comedian and the cinema's first genius, Charlie Chaplin. Produced, writ...
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Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
2007
To My Great Chagrin
0/0
The story of eccentric, avant-garde New York comic, Theodore Gottlieb. Known as Brother Theodore, this brilliant (some would say insane) comic made n...
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To My Great Chagrin
2000
The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV
0/0
One of the greatest comedians of early television, Sid Caesar hasn't had his work shown in perennial reruns, so it's especially gratifying to see a co...
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The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV
2013
Fading Gigolo
5.841/545
Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "man...
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Fading Gigolo
2003
Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
0/0
A collection of Ceasar's finest comedy moments.
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Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
2007
Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
0/0
Documentary exploring the formidable life and career of Italian film star Sophia Loren. With interviews with the actress herself, as well as thoughts...
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Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
2013
Trespassing Bergman
6.6/27
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, left Stockholm and...
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Trespassing Bergman
2019
Kaye Ballard - The Show Goes On!
0/0
This charming documentary showcases the career of musical-comedy sensation Kaye Ballard, whose ability to sing and tell jokes was ubiquitous in the la...
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Kaye Ballard - The Show Goes On!
2014
Barcelona, la rosa de foc
5.5/2
The many faces of Barcelona are portrayed in this documentary, shot in a false sequence shot that goes across the streets, squares, markets and bars o...
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Barcelona, la rosa de foc
2012
Bergmans video
6.2/5
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, left Stockholm and...
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Bergmans video
2001
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
6.569/695
CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task...
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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2003
Anything Else
6.157/552
Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda. He has heard the phrase that l...
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Anything Else
2007
100 Greatest Stand-Ups
0/0
Several people walk into a bar... The funniest comedians of our time stand up to be counted down in our exhaustive look at who really has funny bones....
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100 Greatest Stand-Ups
2017
This Is Bob Hope...
8/1
During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment. American Masters explores the ent...
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This Is Bob Hope...
2013
Erroll Garner: No One Can Hear You Read
7/2
In a triumphant career that lasted forty years Erroll Garner pushed the playability of the piano to its limits, developed an international reputation,...
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Erroll Garner: No One Can Hear You Read
2004
Words in Progress
4/1
Documentary featuring footage from six decades of Cannes Film Festivals.
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Words in Progress
2013
The Unbelievers
6.458/120
Scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss travel the globe promoting a scientific worldview and the rational questioning of religious belief.
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The Unbelievers
2013
Ain't Misbehavin
6.2/4
18 years after his last film, (The Troubles We've Seen), Marcel Ophuls emerges from retirement as one of our last masters, the most corrosive, the fun...
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Ain't Misbehavin
1967
Casino Royale
5.279/649
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be...
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Casino Royale
2011
Bert Stern: Original Madman
8/3
The untold and intimate life story of one of the greatest American photographers of all time, Bert Stern. After working alongside Stanley Kubrick at L...
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Bert Stern: Original Madman
2010
… But Film Is My Mistress
6.1/9
Guided by Liv Ullmann and with commentaries from a number of prominent filmmakers for whom Bergman is and remains an important influence - such as Woo...
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… But Film Is My Mistress
1996
Everyone Says I Love You
6.48/572
A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.
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Everyone Says I Love You
1998
Sugar Ray Robinson: The Bright Lights and Dark Shadows of a Champion
0/0
This sports documentary tells the remarkable story of the man voted the greatest boxer in history. Spanning his career from the early Depression-era d...
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Sugar Ray Robinson: The Bright Lights and Dark Shadows of a Champion
2000
CyberWorld
6.2/5
A collaboration of computer-animated films which features new characters and old friends from the award-winning Fox network television series, "The Si...
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CyberWorld
2022
Groucho & Cavett
0/1
Discover the enduring friendship between television personality Dick Cavett and his mentor iconic comedian Groucho Marx. Their relationship is chronic...
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Groucho & Cavett
1965
What's New Pussycat?
5.963/136
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is havin...
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What's New Pussycat?
1966
What's Up, Tiger Lily?
5.392/166
In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to...
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What's Up, Tiger Lily?
1982
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
0/0
A fascinating look at the most beloved comedy team in motion picture history. Exclusive interviews with those closest to the brothers supplement this...
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The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
2012
Paris-Manhattan
5.521/167
Alice, an obsessed Woody Allen fan, meets Pierre in a night-club and falls in love with him. But when Pierre sees Alice's sister Hélène, things start...
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Paris-Manhattan
2013
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
9/4
When Marvin Hamlisch passed away in August 2012 the worlds of music, theatre and cinema lost a talent the likes of which we may never see again. Seemi...
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Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
2016
Casablancas: The Man Who Loved Women
4.6/7
In the last 30 years of the 2nd millennium, John Casablancas created the Elite modeling agency and invented the supermodels. If the names as Naomi, Ci...
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Casablancas: The Man Who Loved Women
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
7.5/66
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between ma...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
1994
Don't Drink the Water
5.6/69
Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international spying incident when Walter photographs a sunset i...
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Don't Drink the Water
2000
Light Keeps Me Company
8/6
Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the...
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Light Keeps Me Company
2007
A City Runs Through the Festival
0/0
A City Runs Through the Festival is an anatomy of the Festival through the eyes of its own audience.
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A City Runs Through the Festival
2016
Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life
7.3/3
An account of the life and work of the legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey into the greatest mo...
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Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life
2003
Jack Paar: Smart Television
0/0
PBS documentary examining the work of Jack Paar.
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Jack Paar: Smart Television
1989
New York Stories
6.29/326
Get ready for a wildly diverse, star-studded trilogy about life in the big city. One of the most-talked about films in years, New York Stories feature...
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New York Stories
2018
Always at The Carlyle
6.8/16
The iconic Carlyle hotel has been an international destination for a particular jet set as well as a favorite haunt of the most discernible New Yorker...
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Always at The Carlyle
1999
Sweet and Lowdown
6.83/445
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
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Sweet and Lowdown
2016
Café Society
6.457/2543
The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in t...
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Café Society
2016
The Last Laugh
7.1/17
Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use humor in connection with a tragedy of that scale, an...
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The Last Laugh
2019
Very Ralph
6.722/9
The first documentary portrait of fashion icon Ralph Lauren, reveals the man behind the icon and the creation of one of the most successful brands in...
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Very Ralph
2018
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
7/1
An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most acclaim...
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CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
2012
Casting By
7.237/38
This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Marion Dougherty and shines a light on one of the mo...
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Casting By
2001
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
7.4/173
With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this documentary looks at Stanley Kubrick's life and films....
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Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2013
David Blaine: Real or Magic
6.656/80
David Blaine's signature brand of street magic mystifies the most recognisable celebrities in the world, such as Jamie Foxx, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Pau...
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David Blaine: Real or Magic
2005
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
6.2/4
How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to wa...
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Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
1998
The Impostors
5.768/56
Wrongly accused of physically abusing a fellow actor, starving thespians Arthur and Maurice find themselves pursued by the law aboard a cruise ship.
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The Impostors
2006
Filmmakers in Action
7/3
What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in...
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Filmmakers in Action
1980
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
0/0
A look back at the people, events, music, and trends of the 1970s.
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The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
2019
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
6.6/10
Pauline Kael (1919–2001) was undoubtedly one of the greatest names in film criticism. A Californian native, she wrote her first review in 1953 and joi...
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What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2000
Company Man
4.983/29
Set in the 1960's, a school teacher pretends to be a CIA spy to get his nagging wife off his back. He helps a Russian ballet dancer defect and is then...
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Company Man
1987
Radio Days
7.041/494
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944,...
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