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The Rocky Horror Double Feature Video Show
The Rocky Horror Double Feature Video Show
1995 · ⭐ 10
This short documentary produced in celebration of the 20th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show features intervi...
Mother of Desert
Mother of Desert
2005 · ⭐ 10
A story of a mother in village of Thar desert in border area who sacrificed her motherhood for the justice to her countr...
Rocky Horror Remade
Rocky Horror Remade
2020 · ⭐ 10
The Players' Society is proud (?) to present Rocky Horror Remade! For this year's annual production we recreated this cu...
The Things I Haven't Told You
The Things I Haven't Told You
2008 · ⭐ 10
Drama which follows a group of teenagers whose already difficult years of adolescence get massively complicated when one...
Rocky Horror Show: Livestream Theater
Rocky Horror Show: Livestream Theater
2020 · ⭐ 10
A virtual livestream of Richard O'Brien's cult classic....
Latitude 55°
Latitude 55°
1982 · ⭐ 10
A snowstorm in Northern Canada strands a woman from the Department of Culture near a trappers cabin. The two gradually b...
Boogers of the Antichrist
Boogers of the Antichrist
2020 · ⭐ 10
This movie was to be as absurd as Antfarm Dickhole but Bill Zebub’s research inspired new story ideas. This will still b...
5 YEARS
5 YEARS
2022 · ⭐ 10
Rami Johnson gets a second chance to right his wrongs of past mistakes not knowing his actions may have consequences....
Golden Age
Golden Age
2006 · ⭐ 10
Sweet Home Alabama 1986: Burton has had a bad day and things are about to get a hell of a lot worse. After loosing his j...
A Wilderness of Elsewheres. Colony 1.
A Wilderness of Elsewheres. Colony 1.
2009 · ⭐ 10
"An evolutionary fever dream. Futurist post apocalyptic . . . . Animated collage emerging from fluid becomings. Evoluti...
Christmas Staycation
Christmas Staycation
2020 · ⭐ 9.5
When a family can't be together on Christmas they bring their dysfunctional family Christmas online....
28 Days Later
28 Days Later
2002 · ⭐ 7.201
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility a small group of Lond...
Matilda
Matilda
1996 · ⭐ 7.145
An extraordinarily intelligent young girl from a cruel and uncaring family discovers she possesses telekinetic powers an...
Bon Iver : Live at the Pioneer Works Warehouse in Brooklyn NPR
Bon Iver : Live at the Pioneer Works Warehouse in Brooklyn NPR
2016 · ⭐ 9
Performing amidst the Civil War era brickwork of Pioneer Works a former Brooklyn ironworks warehouse now serving as a cu...
Rainbow: Memories in Rock
Rainbow: Memories in Rock
2016 · ⭐ 8.8
1. Highway Star 2. Spotlight Kid 3. Mistreated 4. 16th Century Greensleeves 5. Since You Been Gone 6. Man On The Silver ...
This Is England
This Is England
2006 · ⭐ 7.5
A story about a troubled boy growing up in England set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from sch...
Escape from New York
Escape from New York
1981 · ⭐ 7.1
In the future crime is out of control and New York City's Manhattan is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining ...
How to Bury a Dead Cat
How to Bury a Dead Cat
2019 · ⭐ 9
“How To Bury A Dead Cat” centers on 4 children of various ethnicities as they run around their neighbourhood to find a w...
Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones
Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones
2019 · ⭐ 7.7
Dave Chappelle takes on gun culture the opioid crisis and the tidal wave of celebrity scandals in this defiant stand-up ...
The Commitments
The Commitments
1991 · ⭐ 7.3
Jimmy Rabbitte just a tick out of school gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown his slum home i...
The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young
The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young
2014 · ⭐ 7.7
In its first 25 years only 10 people have finished The Barkley Marathons. Based on a historic prison escape this cult li...
This Filthy World
This Filthy World
2006 · ⭐ 7.8
In this filmed version of cult film director John Waters' popular one-man show the Pink Flamingos and A Dirty Shame dire...
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1988 · ⭐ 6.9
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits....
The Hunger Games: The Phenomenon
The Hunger Games: The Phenomenon
2015 · ⭐ 7.9
An entire overview of the global and culture phenomenon franchise The Hunger Games series....
Quincy
Quincy
2018 · ⭐ 7.4
An intimate look into the life of icon Quincy Jones. A unique force in music and popular culture for 70 years Jones has ...
A Zed & Two Noughts
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985 · ⭐ 7.3
Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals....
Tracing Amy: The Chasing Amy Doc
Tracing Amy: The Chasing Amy Doc
2009 · ⭐ 8
A documentary about the production release and reception of Kevin Smith's 1997 Miramax cult classic "Chasing Amy."...
Time Bandits
Time Bandits
1981 · ⭐ 6.6
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of t...
In Search of Balance
In Search of Balance
2016 · ⭐ 7.8
An exploration of a new paradigm of health science and medicine based on the interconnections between us and nature....
The Universal Language
The Universal Language
2011 · ⭐ 8
The Universal Language is a new documentary from Academy Award-nominated director Sam Green (The Weather Underground). T...
Foreign Volunteers: In the Hell of Raqqa
Foreign Volunteers: In the Hell of Raqqa
2019 · ⭐ 8
Inspired by the mythology of the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War over 300 foreign volunteers chose to gi...
Sarajevo: State In Time
Sarajevo: State In Time
2019 · ⭐ 8
Shot in six European countries it tells the story of the concerts given by cult underground band Laibach during the sieg...
Westward the Women
Westward the Women
1951 · ⭐ 7.2
There's a deficit of good honest women in the West and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a cara...
The Mighty Boosh: Journey of the Childmen
The Mighty Boosh: Journey of the Childmen
2010 · ⭐ 8
Shot during the mammoth Future Sailors tour this intimate film observes the comic genius of the Mighty Boosh as they nav...
The Green Park
The Green Park
2015 · ⭐ 8
For over 40 years the Green Park Hotel beckoned waves of Jewish immigrants to its idyllic seaside location on England’s ...
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
1997 · ⭐ 8
Cultural theorist Stuart Hall offers an extended meditation on representation. Moving beyond the accuracy or inaccuracy ...
Istanbul Unveiled
Istanbul Unveiled
2013 · ⭐ 8
In this documentary Istanbul is unveiled and the real Istanbul is shown by way of the back door the philosophy behind th...
Goodbye Solo
Goodbye Solo
2009 · ⭐ 7
A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point....
The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of 'Jaws'
The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of 'Jaws'
2009 · ⭐ 7.2
After three decades Jaws continues to intrigue thrill and frighten viewers. This documentary focuses on the many ways in...
The Devil Rides Out
The Devil Rides Out
1968 · ⭐ 6.6
The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly S...
Pink Flamingos
Pink Flamingos
1972 · ⭐ 6.2
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble a sleazy married coup...
Melinda and Melinda
Melinda and Melinda
2004 · ⭐ 6.3
While dining out with friends Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point he t...
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020 · ⭐ 7.5
From "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" to "The Big Lebowski" and everything in between this fascinating deep-dive document...
Needful Things
Needful Things
1993 · ⭐ 6.2
A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper with a price...
Hollywood Hulk Hogan: Hulk Still Rules
Hollywood Hulk Hogan: Hulk Still Rules
2002 · ⭐ 7.5
Before he was the idol of millions before he was Hulk Hogan Terry Bollea was a fan with a dream. But even he couldn't im...
Greg Warren: Where the Field Corn Grows
Greg Warren: Where the Field Corn Grows
2020 · ⭐ 7.5
Greg Warren is smart enough to understand what he doesn't know and it's in his common-sense attempt to understand basic ...
The Gardener
The Gardener
2017 · ⭐ 7.3
Created over 75 years and three generations Les Quatre Vents stands as an enchanted place of beauty and surprise a horti...
Danny Says
Danny Says
2015 · ⭐ 6.9
DANNY SAYS is a documentary unveiling the amazing journey of Danny Fields. Fields has played a pivotal role in music and...
Short Eyes
Short Eyes
1977 · ⭐ 6.8
A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City’s infamous Tombs prison. When the other inm...
Maître Galip
Maître Galip
1964 · ⭐ 7.2
Maître Galip is the most poetic and powerful of Pialat's Turkish Chronicles using the poems of Nazim Hikmet to accompan...
Maniac Cop
Maniac Cop
1988 · ⭐ 6.2
In New York people are slain and strangled to death brutally on the open street. All witnesses agree that the murderer w...
Žižek!
Žižek!
2005 · ⭐ 6.8
ŽIŽEK! trails the thinker as he crisscrosses the globe racing from New York City lecture halls through the streets of ...
Krull
Krull
1983 · ⭐ 6.1
A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived o...
The Last House on the Left
The Last House on the Left
1972 · ⭐ 6
Two teenage girls try to buy marijuana in the city - where they get kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychotic conv...
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019 · ⭐ 6.717
When Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting gift Chatwin gave him his...
The Leopard Man
The Leopard Man
1943 · ⭐ 6.4
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt it triggers a series of murders....
The Mayo Clinic
The Mayo Clinic
2018 · ⭐ 7
The Mayo Clinic tells the story of a unique medical institution that has been called a "Medical Mecca" the "Supreme Cour...
Death of a Cheerleader
Death of a Cheerleader
2019 · ⭐ 6.7
A remake of the cult classic inspired by Randall Sullivan’s Rolling Stone article of the same name about the real life m...
The Wormwood Star
The Wormwood Star
1956 · ⭐ 7
A portrait of artist actress poet and occultist Marjorie Cameron it shows images of her paintings and recitations of her...
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
2011 · ⭐ 5.007
When the devil resurfaces with aims to take over the world in human form Johnny Blaze reluctantly comes out of hiding to...
Bad Reputation
Bad Reputation
2018 · ⭐ 6.6
The life and career of rock n' roll icon Joan Jett from her early years ripping it up onstage as the founder and backbon...
Frightmare
Frightmare
1974 · ⭐ 6.441
In 1957 Dorothy and Edmund Yates were committed to an institution for the criminally insane she for acts of murder and c...
Baphomet
Baphomet
2021 · ⭐ 6.4
An American family celebrates their 28-year-old daughter's pregnancy. The celebration is interrupted when a Satanic cult...
Putuparri and the Rainmakers
Putuparri and the Rainmakers
2015 · ⭐ 7
Tom "Putuparri" Lawford is a man caught between two worlds: his past and present in modern society where he battles with...
Hell Is a City
Hell Is a City
1960 · ⭐ 6.6
Set in Manchester heartland of England's industrial north Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted ...
Vintage Tomorrows
Vintage Tomorrows
2016 · ⭐ 6.8
Vintage tomorrows examines the steampunk movement's explosive growth origins and cultural significance. It explores the ...
The Elephant in the Living Room
The Elephant in the Living Room
2010 · ⭐ 6.7
A film about the controversial world of exotic animal ownership within the suburbs of the United States. "The Elephant i...
The Machine That Made Us
The Machine That Made Us
2008 · ⭐ 7
The printing press was the world's first mass-production machine. Its invention in the 1450s changed the world as dramat...
Mariachi Gringo
Mariachi Gringo
2012 · ⭐ 6.6
A stifled small-town man stuck in a dead end life runs away to Mexico to be a mariachi singer. MARIACHI GRINGO is a musi...
Jimmy P.
Jimmy P.
2013 · ⭐ 6.111
The story of Picard a Plains Indian of the Blackfeet nation as he returns from WWII and begins experiencing unexplainabl...
Also Starring Austin
Also Starring Austin
2018 · ⭐ 7
ALSO STARRING AUSTIN uses scenes from locally shot films as a lens to explore a community's rapidly changing built and n...
Be Good, Smile Pretty
Be Good, Smile Pretty
2003 · ⭐ 7
A powerfully moving personal exploration of a grief for the father she never knew this award-winning film chronicles Tra...
Not Done: Women Remaking America
Not Done: Women Remaking America
2020 · ⭐ 7
"Not Done: Women Remaking America" chronicles the seismic eruption of women's organizing from the 2016 election through ...
Jenny's Wedding
Jenny's Wedding
2015 · ⭐ 5.7
Jenny Farrell is getting married. But how will her straight-laced family react when they find out that the woman they th...
Jerusalem
Jerusalem
2013 · ⭐ 6.4
JERUSALEM takes audiences on an inspiring and eye-opening tour of one of the worlds oldest and most enigmatic cities. De...
Of Two Minds
Of Two Minds
2012 · ⭐ 6.5
Follows the story of the challenging relationship between Billie and her younger schizophrenic sister Elizabeth Baby. Af...
The Other Lamb
The Other Lamb
2020 · ⭐ 5.9
For her entire life the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah has known. Along with a band of similarly...
Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema
Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema
2019 · ⭐ 6.556
Feature length documentary on the cult sub-genre featuring interviews with Dyanne ‘Ilsa’ Thorne Malissa ‘Elsa’ Longo fil...
The Trigger Trio
The Trigger Trio
1937 · ⭐ 7
In this western the Three Mesquiteers must find a killer and his band after they murder an official from the State Agric...
Derrumbes (1985-1989)
Derrumbes (1985-1989)
1993 · ⭐ 7
Last chapter of the series 18 decades of life in Mexico in the twentieth century. Images of the cultural social and poli...
Nerdcore For Life
Nerdcore For Life
2008 · ⭐ 7
Two of the 21st century's most powerful social forces; Hip-Hop and geek culture collide head-on in the feature-length do...
Uncle Ben
Uncle Ben
1978 · ⭐ 7
Nancy is about to receive her college degree and she has a special request for Dr. McFarland about the commencement proc...
Miss Tu Hau
Miss Tu Hau
1963 · ⭐ 7
Considered a masterpiece of Vietnamese cinema Pham Ky Nam’s enduring classic MS. TU HAU is a product of the countries fl...
Good Morning, Mr. Hitler
Good Morning, Mr. Hitler
1993 · ⭐ 7
Newly discovered amateur color footage of the 1939 Cultural Festival in Munich attended by Hitler six weeks before the o...
Sex Pistols: The Whole Story
Sex Pistols: The Whole Story
2011 · ⭐ 7
Rules are made to be broken and over three decades the Sex Pistols lived this lifestyle better than anyone. The Sex Pist...
Bringing Our Language Back to Life
Bringing Our Language Back to Life
2020 · ⭐ 7
In the Wsanec territory language revitalization efforts are underway. Through prayer and song the youth demonstrates the...
Guadalcanal Requiem
Guadalcanal Requiem
1977 · ⭐ 7
One of Paik’s most overtly political and poignant statements Guadalcanal Requiem is a performance/documentary collage th...
Namibia: The Spirit of Wilderness
Namibia: The Spirit of Wilderness
2016 · ⭐ 6.7
With more than 300 days a year the sun dominates this country so much that it’s even shining from their flag. It’s a ba...
Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies
Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies
2019 · ⭐ 6.4
From ancient cave paintings to Twitter feeds and deep fakes propaganda's rapid progression hasn't compromised its potenc...
The Incubus
The Incubus
1982 · ⭐ 5.885
In the small New England town of Galen a young teenage boy claims he has dreams of young women being brutally raped and ...
Louis C.K.: One Night Stand
Louis C.K.: One Night Stand
2005 · ⭐ 6.3
If you're a fan of late-night talk shows then whether you know it or not you know Emmy Award-winning Louis CK. That's be...
The Godfathers of Hardcore
The Godfathers of Hardcore
2018 · ⭐ 6.3
Documentary following Roger Miret and Vinnie Stigma of the band Agnostic Front who played a key role in defining shaping...
Kampai! For the Love of Sake
Kampai! For the Love of Sake
2015 · ⭐ 6.417
An American journalist a British sake brewer and the president of a centenary Japanese sake brewery join together to exp...
Hotel Inferno 2: The Cathedral of Pain
Hotel Inferno 2: The Cathedral of Pain
2017 · ⭐ 6.2
You Frank Zimosa are dead - brutally killed by the Mistandrian Cultists and trapped in the nightmarish Hotel Inferno: a ...
44 Pages
44 Pages
2018 · ⭐ 6.4
A portrait of Highlights Magazine following the creation of the cultural phenomenon's 70th Anniversary issue from the fi...
The Midas Touch
The Midas Touch
2020 · ⭐ 6.3
Felix a young advertiser is down on his luck. Ridiculed by his boss and suffering from unrequited love he knows that som...
Tales from the Hood 3
Tales from the Hood 3
2020 · ⭐ 5.9
Following the franchise's cult classic roots this new anthology featuring Tony Todd and Lynn Whitfield will scare and th...
Red, White & Wasted
Red, White & Wasted
2019 · ⭐ 6.5
An unapologetic immersion into Florida's redneck mudding culture. Video Pat is a mudding enthusiast who must question hi...
Courageous Love
Courageous Love
2017 · ⭐ 6.3
Courageous Love follows Alex Shelby as he encounters romance and intrigue while trying to save the family business that ...
Ride
Ride
2019 · ⭐ 6.5
Spin classes can be a bit intimidating. But for Brit the fear is real when her first class turns into a ride for her lif...
Borderland
Borderland
2007 · ⭐ 5.4
Three college students Phil Ed and Henry take a road trip into Mexico for a week of drinking and carefree fun only to ha...
Patty Hearst
Patty Hearst
1988 · ⭐ 5.8
The true story of a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970's. Her time spent with her captor...
Wild in the Streets
Wild in the Streets
1968 · ⭐ 5.9
Striking a zeitgeist nerve Wild in the Streets stars Christopher Jones (Ryan's Daughter) as Max Frost rock singer and po...
Miami Connection
Miami Connection
1987 · ⭐ 5.5
In a world where ninjas dream of being rock stars and rock stars dream of being ninjas a martial arts rock band goes up ...
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
2008 · ⭐ 6.1
Betrayed and disgraced big-city reporter Kazuya Mizuno is banished to a desk at Kaname's boring little town newspaper. B...
The Sword and the Sorcerer
The Sword and the Sorcerer
1982 · ⭐ 5.5
A mercenary with a three-bladed sword rediscovers his royal heritage when he is recruited to help a princess foil a brut...
Eating Up Easter
Eating Up Easter
2019 · ⭐ 6.3
The Rapanui community on Easter Island fights to prevent an environmental collapse due to overwhelming tourism and indus...
Tom Papa: Live in New York City
Tom Papa: Live in New York City
2011 · ⭐ 6
From the Union Square Theater in New York City veteran comic Tom Papa discusses a variety of topics ranging from living ...
Soul Boys of the Western World
Soul Boys of the Western World
2014 · ⭐ 5.8
A journey through the 1980s and beyond; the story of a band an era and how one small gathering of outsiders in London sh...
Mixed Blessings
Mixed Blessings
1995 · ⭐ 6
Three couples are followed as they struggle to have children. Pilar and Brad Coleman are both very mature Brad already ...
Ben: Diary of a Heroin Addict
Ben: Diary of a Heroin Addict
2008 · ⭐ 6
Ben Rogers was a bright schoolboy from a loving middle class family. He played in the orchestra loved cricket and enjoye...
Ram Dass, Going Home
Ram Dass, Going Home
2017 · ⭐ 5.581
Ram Dass is one of the most important cultural figures from the 1960s and 70s. A pyschedelic pioneer author of Be Here N...
American Desi
American Desi
2001 · ⭐ 5.9
College freshman Krishna Reddy who has never cared for his Indian-American cultural heritage looks forward to a new life...
Skip Tracer
Skip Tracer
1977 · ⭐ 6
An accomplished repo man from Vancouver takes a new hire under his wing while their morals and limits are tested on the ...
The Secret Disco Revolution
The Secret Disco Revolution
2012 · ⭐ 6
Why won’t Disco die? Might it contain hidden depths? Politically correct revisionists are trying to recast disco as a mi...
Straight and Butch
Straight and Butch
2010 · ⭐ 6
Philadelphia TV host Butch Cordora is on a mission to publish a calendar that recreates iconic photos in pop culture fea...
Octane
Octane
2003 · ⭐ 5.3
After a family visit stressed businesswoman Senga Wilson (Madeleine Stowe) is driving with her rebellious daughter Nat (...
Crazywise
Crazywise
2017 · ⭐ 6
Western culture treats mental disorders primarily through biomedical psychiatry but filmmakers Phil Borges and Kevin Tom...
My Father's Choice
My Father's Choice
2017 · ⭐ 6
Her father fled Mao's Cultural Revolution going to Hong Kong. Not long after he joined the great Chinese exodus to the W...
Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
2016 · ⭐ 5.6
In 1994 four women were accused tried and convicted of the heinous sexual assault of two young girls—as one newscaster p...