Documentary, Comedy
American Movie documents the story of filmmaker Mark Borchardt, his mission, and his dream. Spanning over two years of intense struggle with his film, his family, financial decline, and spiritual crisis, American Movie is a portrayal of ambition, obsession, excess, and one man's quest for the American Dream.
MOVIE COMMENTS
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To Die For
As It Is in Heaven
Side Out
This Woman Is Not a Car
My Life as a Dog
The Ferpect Crime
Election
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
Werner: Eat My Dust!!!
The Tattooed Police Horse
Discovering Buñuel
Lars and the Real Girl
Seagulls & Stripes
Living in Oblivion
Cocktail
Racing Stripes
The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You
Head Under Water
Napoleon Dynamite
Dikkenek
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To Die For
IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 1995
Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.As It Is in Heaven
IMDB 7.1 | Sep , 2004
A musical romantic tragedy about a famous composer who moves back to his small hometown after having had heart troubles. His search for a simple everyday life leads him into teaching the local church choir, which is not easily accepted by the town yet the choir builds a great love for their teacher.Side Out
IMDB 5.2 | Mar , 1990
A law student comes to California for the summer and ends up playing professional volleyball.This Woman Is Not a Car
IMDB 1 | Jan , 1982
A depressed wife and mother whose reality is starting to fracture into fantasy, drives her children to the beach. On the return journey she stops at a service station to fill up with petrol. Four mechanics eye her off and, as one of them walks towards her car, a full-blown erotic fantasy develops.My Life as a Dog
IMDB 7.2 | Dec , 1985
A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.The Ferpect Crime
IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 2004
A playboy has the tables turned on him when he finds himself being used as a plaything by an undesirable woman.Election
IMDB 6.9 | Apr , 1999
Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year’s high school student election. But Jim McAllister has a different plan. Partly to establish a more democratic election, and partly to satisfy some deep personal anger toward Tracy, Jim talks football player Paul Metzler to run for president as well.DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
IMDB 6.4 | Jun , 2004
When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-lucky Pete La Fleur, there's only one way for La Fleur to fight back: dodgeball. Aided by a dodgeball guru and Goodman's attorney, La Fleur and his rag-tag team of underdogs launch a knock-down, drag-out battle in which the winner takes all.Werner: Eat My Dust!!!
IMDB 5.8 | Jun , 1996
Because of a bet, Werner and his friend have to construct the fastest vehicle to win a race, because life depends on it.The Tattooed Police Horse
IMDB 6 | Apr , 1964
Barred from racing for breaking stride, a trotting horse finds a new career as a police officer's mount in Boston.Discovering Buñuel
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2012
Luis Bunuel, the father of cinematic Surrealism, made his film debut with 'Un Chien Andalou' in 1929 working closely with Salvador Dali. Considered one of the finest and controversial filmmakers with, 'L’Age d’Or' (1930), attacking the church and the middle classes. He won many awards including Best Director at Cannes for 'Los Olvidados' (1950), and the coveted Palme d’Or for 'Viridiana' (1961), which had been banned in his native Spain. His career moved to France with 'The Diary of a Chambermaid' with major stars such as Jeanne Moreau and Catherine Deneuve.Lars and the Real Girl
IMDB 7.2 | Oct , 2007
Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size plastic woman. On the advice of a doctor, his family and the rest of the community go along with his delusion.Seagulls & Stripes
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2025
A chance encounter with seagulls sets a man's life on an unexpected path.Living in Oblivion
IMDB 7.2 | Jul , 1995
Low-budget independent filmmaker Nick Reve tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious beret-wearing director of photography, and lousy catering.Cocktail
IMDB 6.1 | Jul , 1988
After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style, and Brian adopts his mentor's cynical philosophy on life and goes for the money.Racing Stripes
IMDB 5.9 | Jan , 2005
Shattered illusions are hard to repair -- especially for a good-hearted zebra named Stripes who's spent his life on a Kentucky farm amidst the sorely mistaken notion that he's a debonair thoroughbred. Once he faces the fact that his stark stripes mark him as different, he decides he'll race anyway. And with help from the young girl who raised him, he just might end up in the winner's circle.The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You
IMDB 7.6 | Nov , 2006
The League of Gentlemen bring their dark but brilliant humour to the stage in this "alternative" pantomime... they're behind you!Head Under Water
IMDB 5.3 | Sep , 2007
Something terrible is about to happen in a small town in Germany. Nobody knows the reason why, except one person: Rico Bartsch. The 15-year old grammar school pupil, an absolute outsider, is in love with the most beautiful girl at his school. What in the beginning is a longing that can never be fulfilled will come true at the end of the story. Beautiful Regine will beg for Rico’s love. Until then several inhabitants of the town will die an unnatural death...Napoleon Dynamite
IMDB 6.8 | Jun , 2004
A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.Dikkenek
IMDB 6.7 | Jun , 2006
Jean-Claude is a loud-mouthed, know-it-all and full time boor who is best friends with Stef, a self-styled lady killer who would do better with the fairer sex if he could work up the ambition to wake up in the morning. Stef has decided that he may need some help in finding the woman of his dreams, and embracing loyalty rather than logic he turns to Jean-Claude for advice.