Movies (121) tagged by 'Directorial Debut'
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Go Fish (1994)
Rose Troche paved the way for lesbian movies in the 1990's with Go Fish, an exploration about love and its many faces.
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
Steven Soderbergh explodes onto the scene with this provocative, intelligent drama about infidelity and voyeurism. Ann Milaney (Andie MacDowell) lives in a co...
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009)
After her boyfriend mysteriously leaves her with little explanation, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at a prestigious East Coast university Sara Quinn is l...
Adulthood (2008)
Powerful, disturbing and moving in equal measure, 2005's acclaimed "Kidulthood" took us deep into London's unseen underbelly, delivering a raw, hard-hitting ref...
Problem Child 2 (1991)
Junior's back in his first adventure since his last! Junior and Ben move to Mortville which seems like the perfect town to live in. The Healys have a nice new h...
Spanking the Monkey (1994)
Raymond Aibelli is a promising medical student ready to begin a prestigious summer internship. But Susan, his mother, is immobilized by a broken leg, and his fa...
Love in Disguise (2010)
Famous from an incredibly young age, DMH (Wang Lee Hom) has only ever known a celebrity pop star existence...
Caged Heat (1974)
A girl is caught in a drug bust and sent to the hoosegow. The iron-handed superintendent takes exception to a skit performed by the girls and takes punitive st...
The Maltese Falcon (1947)
Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed whilst tailing a man. The girl who asked him to foll...
The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael (2005)
(from the UK release DVD jacket) In a small English coastal town, three teenage boys are drawn into a world of temptation and violence... See full synopsis...
Strays (1997)
A macho cruiser comes of age. Frustrated by the repetitious grind of one night stands and aimless hustling, study drug dealer Rick is looking for meaning and i...
Samson and Delilah (2009) (2009)
Samson and Delilah's world is small- an isolated community in the Central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes they turn their backs on home and embark on a ...
Cherry 2000 (1987)
In the future, a man travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose. When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds ...
Girlfight (2001)
At 18, Diana has a chip on her shoulder; she's close to expulsion from high school for fighting, her mother is dead, her dad is surly, the popular girls at scho...
The Duellists (1977)
Set during the grand, sweeping Napoleonic age, an officer in the French army insults another officer and sets off a life-long emnity. The two officers, D'Huber...
Two Hands (1999)
In his wonderfully inventive and decidedly Australian debut feature, Gregor Jordan returns to Sundance (his short, Swinger, played in 1996) with a film that i...
Losing Chase (1996)
Chase (Mirren), a lifetime resident of Martha's Vineyard, married Richard (Bridges), and like the area, grew into the Upper-Middle-Class. Her distaste for arti...
The Wendell Baker Story (2005)
Luke Wilson stars as Wendell Baker - a good-hearted conman whose latest scam lands him in jail and alienates him from everyone he loves, including his longtim...
Romulus, My Father (2007)
Raimond Gaita (1946 - ) comes of age in Frogmore, Victoria in the early 1960s. His parents are immigrants: his Romanian father farms; his German mother, Christi...
Tales from Earthsea (2006)
Gervase Phinn is a popular writer and performer and is best known for his autobiogrphical novels, Up and Down in the Dales, The Other Side of The Dale, Over H...
Hyderabad Blues (1998)
Varun (Nagesh Kukunoor), back home in Hyderabad after 12 years in the US, finds it difficult to get accustomed to the Indian ways of life, which he has given ...
Little Norse Prince (1968)
Classic Japanese animated film, following the adventures of young Horus, who recovers the Sword of the Sun from the evil rock giant Moog, and who returns to h...
Last Ride (2009)
Thematically recalling Clint Eastwood's 1993 saga A Perfect World, this drama from Australia hones in on a troubled adult man and a young boy fleeing from the l...
The Water Diviner (2014)
An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons.
The Man Without a Face (1993)
Justin McLeod has been living the life of a reculse for seven years, ever since his face was horribly disfigured. Known as "Hamburger Head" to the locals, he's...
The Hired Hand (1971)
A drifting cowboy (Peter Fonda) brings along a friend (Warren Oates) when he returns to his wife (Verna Bloom) and ranch after seven years. ...
A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)
Young Iranian Kurds (brothers and sisters) try to save the youngest of them, who is seriously ill.
Palookaville (1995)
Jerry and his two pals, Russ and Syd, are just looking for some easy money to help them break out of their nowhere lives in their nowhere town. Despite a bungle...
Jack Goes Boating (2010)
A limo driver's blind date sparks a tale of love, betrayal, friendship, and grace centered around two working-class New York City couples.
Citizen Ruth (1996)
Ruth Stoops is a poor indigent drug-user (a huffer - inhaling glue and paint for a high) whose down and out existence is complicated once more by becoming preg...
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976)
After his father dies, a disturbed young boy plots to take revenge on the new man in his mother's life.
Reminiscence (2021)
Nick Bannister, a private investigator of the mind, navigates the alluring world of the past when his life is changed by new client Mae. A simple case becomes a...
Grand Theft Auto (1977)
Ron Howard made his directorial debut and wrote the script for this car-chase collage.
A rich heiress elopes to Las Vegas with her boyfriend in a stolen Ro...
The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004)
From popular anime director Makoto Shinkai (VOICES OF A DISTANT STAR) comes the beguiling THE PLACE PROMISED IN OUR EARLY DAYS. Set in a futuristic landscape ...
Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)
The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met.
Fando and Lis (1972)
Fando and his partially paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky's memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal.
Chocolat (1988)
A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are ...
Midnight in the Switchgrass (2021)
An FBI agent and Florida State officer team up to investigate a string of unsolved murder cases.
God's Pocket (2014)
When Mickey's crazy step-son Leon is killed in a construction 'accident', nobody in the working class neighborhood of God's Pocket is sorry he's gone. Mickey tr...
The Riddle (2007)
An ambitious London sports journalist, an enigmatic tramp and a police press officer team up to solve a series of murders that follow the discovery of an unpub...
Besharam (1978)
Be-Sharam is a classic story of the clash between good and evil. Seth Dharamdas (Amjad Khan) designs a careful plot to conceal his nefarious activities, in th...
Fear And Desire (1953)
A ficticious war in an unidentified country provides the setting for this drama. Four soldiers survive the crash-landing of their plane to find themselves in a ...
In Which We Serve (1942)
This "story of a ship," the British destroyer HMS Torrin, is told in flash backs by survivors as they cling to a life raft.
Dead Squad: Temple of the Undead (2018)
A group of young people become lost in the jungle during a river rafting trip and stumble upon a long lost ruin that is home to a host of mysterious monsters.
There's Something in the Pilliga (2014)
The Pilliga Yowie, - or 'Jingra' - has haunted the Australian outback for centuries, stalking a remote part of New South Wales, where men seldom dare tread, con...
Hunterrr (2015)
Mandar Ponkshe is an ordinary guy, meaning there is hardly anything extraordinary about him. He is maybe 5'8" or 5'9". He dresses very un-dandily if there was s...
The Great McGinty (1940)
Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics. But endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty...
Insidious: The Red Door (2023)
The Lamberts must go deeper into The Further than ever before to put their demons to rest once and for all.
The Swamp (2001)
The life of two women and their families in a small provincial town of Salta, Argentina.
Rosewater (2014)
Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who brutally interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.
Men's Group (2008)
Six strangers meet up every week to talk, finding they are not alone with their issues. Secrets are revealed as their friendships grow but when tragedy strikes,...
Suddenly Seventeen (2016)
A 28-year-old woman who is unhappy in her marriage eats a piece of strange chocolate which transports her back to her 17-year-old self, the time before she meet...
My Name Is Ivan (1962)
During World War II, 12-year old Ivan works as a spy on the eastern front. The small Ivan can cross the German lines unnoticed to collect information. Three Sov...
The Grim Reaper (1962)
Near the Tiber river, in a Roman park, a prostitute was killed. The police tracks down people that were inside the park during that night. They are questioned a...
The Search for One-eye Jimmy (1994)
While working on a documentary on his old neighborhood, a young film school graduate shifts the focus of his production onto the disappearance of a local reside...
Squeeze (1997)
Ty, Hector, and Bao are close friends in a tough section of Boston, where they're called "the PG-13 crew." They're 14, decent kids with few skills who've bailed...
The Legend of Ben Hall (2016)
Ben Hall is drawn back into bushranging by the reappearance of his old friend John Gilbert. Reforming the gang, they soon become the most wanted men in Australi...
Footsteps (2006)
A young man called Andrew is forced to endure a bitter encounter with a man known as the Cameraman, who enjoys filming beatings, murders and rapes in an abandon...
The Reunion (2013)
Anna Odell, a famous artist, doesn't get an invitation to her class reunion. She then makes a film about what could have happened if she had went to the reunion...
Ruben Guthrie (2015)
Ruben Guthrie is the story of one man not only battling the bottle, but the city that won't let him put it down.
Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel (1991)
Right after Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California, in 1955, a toy salesman in town for a convention brings his wife with him so they can both go to Disneyland...
Just a Kiss (2002)
A group of thirtysomethings having problems with fidelity gets an opportunity to turn back the clock.
Resurrected (1989)
True story of a British soldier (David Thewlis), who is left behind in the Falklands after the war with Argentina. He travels on a journey from the Falkland Isl...
The Interview (1998)
A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted.
Fire in the Blood (2013)
An intricate tale of "medicine, monopoly and malice", FIRE IN THE BLOOD tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments blocked access t...
River of Grass (1994)
Cozy, a dissatisfied housewife, meets Lee at a bar. A drink turns into a home break-in, and a gun shot sends them on the run together, thinking they've committe...
The Bet on Bet (2006)
A young Sydney stockbroker risks it all to win a friendly bet about making money.
Christmas In August (1998)
Hahn Suk-Kyu suffers from a fatal disease. He meets Shim Eun-Ha and falls in love with her. What will be the fate of this love - will it be a tragic ending?
Permanent Vacation Part1 (1980)
A young slacker wanders New York City searching for some meaning in life and encounters many idiosyncratic characters.
Scissors (1991)
After a young woman is attacked in the elevator she meets her neighbours (two brothers) for the first time. One of the brothers has a secret, the other has a cr...
The Pallbearer (1996)
A young man's life is thrown into a loop when he is asked to be a pallbearer for the funeral of a classmate he doesn't remember, and his old high school crush t...
Miss Baek (2018)
A woman's past as a convict follows her everywhere and because of this she doesn't open up to others. But then she strikes up a friendship with a broken child w...
Bellbird (2019)
In the wake of the loss of his beloved wife, a rural community rallies around a farmer to help him deal with his grief.
Panic Attack (2017)
Tragedy meets comedy in seven stories about how our entire world can collapse at any given moment.
The Pleasure Garden (1925)
Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets Jill Cheyne who is down on her luck and gets her a job as a dancer. Jill meets adventu...
Mr. Roosevelt (2017)
After a loved one falls ill, struggling comedian Emily Martin returns to her college town of Austin, Texas and must come to terms with her past while staying wi...
Out of Darkness (2024)
In the Old Stone Age, a disparate gang of early humans band together in search of a new land. But when they suspect a malevolent, mystical being is hunting them...
As They Made Us (2022)
A divorced mom tries to make peace with her dysfunctional family as she finds a second chance at love.
The Gits (2005)
The first time Matt Dresdner heard Mia Zapata sing, he knew she was destined to front the punk rock group he dreamt of forming. In the fall of 1986, at Ohio's A...
Hairshirt (1998)
A self-obsessed man runs through one woman after another in this screwball comedy. One of his rejected former lovers decides to take it upon herself to see to i...
Red Dust (2004)
Police officer Dirk Hendricks (Bartlett) files an amnesty application for Alex Mpondo (Ejiofor), a member of the South African Parliament who can't remember...
Whistle Down the Wind (1961)
Little Kathy discovers a man wanted for murder hiding in her family's barn. When she asks him who he is, he says Jesus Christ just before he goes unconscious. K...
Dirty Little Billy (1972)
A more realistic, based-on-reality, unsensationalistic portrayal of the gritty early years of one of the most famous Wild West outlaws in history, Billy The Kid...
Braking for Whales (2019)
A dysfunctional brother and sister are forced to come to terms with each other and themselves over their recently deceased mother's final wish.
Aiyai: Wrathful Soul (2020)
A neighbourhood is plagued by mysterious tragedies when a young man becomes the conduit for an unknown spirit, the 'AIYAI' which lures victims to thei...
Diner (1982)
A group of college-age buddies struggle with their imminent passage into adulthood in 1959 Baltimore.
Single Rider (2017)
A man who has lost everything in his life travels to Australia in search of his family.
Bad Behaviour (2023)
Lucy, a former child actress who seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon, while also navigating the close but turbulent relationship with ...
Death by Invitation (1971)
A young woman learns that one of her ancestors had been burned at the stake as a witch. She decides to revenge her on the descendants of the people who had her ...
Welcome to the Space Show (2010)
A tiny mountain village in a remote woodland region. Five primary school kids have come together in this idyllic spot in order to spend their summer holidays at...
Top of the World (1993)
One parting married couple, plus two guys and two gals, interact during a Thanksgiving weekend at a roomy home in the Colorado Rockies.
The Delinquents (1957)
Scotty White (age 19) must stop 'going steady' with Janice Wilson (age 16) when Janice's parents intervene. Frustrated, idle and without Janice's restraining in...
Two Ninas (1999)
When two beautiful women fall for the unluckiest guy in the world his life takes on delicious complications.
Pseudo (2020)
A taxi driver gets caught up in a deadly operation when he steals the identity of a passenger.
In the Aftermath (1988)
On a post-apocalyptic Earth, an angel descends to help the survivors.
America Recycled (2015)
Two brothers ride recycled bicycles through the American South over two years, seeking radical locality amid rampant globalization. As they learn to survive on ...
Border Radio (1987)
Two musicians and a roadie take money that is owed to them from a job. One flees to Mexico, and everyone has questions.
When the Clouds Roll by (1919)
Psychiatrist Dr. Ulrich Metz attempts to drive Daniel Brown to suicide.
Roadside Prophets (1992)
Two strangers meet on the road and travel through Nevada on motorcycle to find an elusive spot where they can dump another man's ashes.
Amy George (2011)
Thirteen-year-old Jesse wants to be an artist and believing that his mundane, middle-class life has left him unprepared, he sets out looking for wildness and wo...
Story of a Love Affair (1950)
Paola is a young, beautiful woman married to a wealthy entrepreneur. She meets her former lover Guido after seven years, but their relationship is marked by tra...
Helsinki Mansplaining Massacre (2019)
One woman desperately struggles to survive a horde of men with frail egos, who just want to explain everything to her.
Murder à la Mod (1968)
Naive young lady Karen wants to help her struggling amateur filmmaker boyfriend Christopher raise enough money so he can divorce his wife. Meanwhile, jolly psyc...
The Manipulator (1971)
An insane Hollywood makeup man kidnaps a woman, keeps her prisoner in his warehouse full of props.
God Has a Rap Sheet (2003)
Eight men of various backgrounds get arrested for the evening, and share the holding cell with a homeless man who awakens and claims to be God.
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