Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich

July 30, 1939 · 87 years old

Peter Bogdanovich ComSE (July 30, 1939 – January 6, 2022) was an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic, and film historian. He started his career as a film critic for Film Culture and Esquire before becoming a prominent filmmaker as part of the New Hollywood movement. He received accola…

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50 titles
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Paper Moon

Paper Moon

1973 · 1h 42m · Movie

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

8.1
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She's Funny That Way

She's Funny That Way

2015 · 1h 33m · Movie

On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover and the call-girl-turned-actress cast in the production.

6.2
3
The Last Picture Show

The Last Picture Show

1971 · 1h 58m · Movie

In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.

8.0
4
Mask

Mask

1985 · 2h 0m · Movie

A teenager with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.

7.2
5
The Other Side of the Wind

The Other Side of the Wind

2018 · 2h 2m · Movie

At a media-swamped party to celebrate his 70th birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead...

7.2
6
What's Up, Doc?

What's Up, Doc?

1972 · 1h 34m · Movie

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

7.7
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Hitchcock/Truffaut

Hitchcock/Truffaut

2015 · 1h 19m · Movie

Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut's 1966 book "Cinema According to Hitchcock" influenced their work.

7.3
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Infamous

Infamous

2006 · 1h 50m · Movie

While researching his novel "In Cold Blood", Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.

7.0
9
Noises Off...

Noises Off...

1992 · 1h 41m · Movie

A traveling theater group find so much action going on behind the scenes that they almost ruin the performances.

7.4
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Targets

Targets

1968 · 1h 30m · Movie

An aging horror star contemplates retirement amid the modern culture of random violence, while a disturbed young gun collector embarks on an unprovoked killing spree.

7.3
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The Cat's Meow

The Cat's Meow

2001 · 1h 54m · Movie

Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.

6.4
12
The Thing Called Love

The Thing Called Love

1993 · 1h 56m · Movie

Newcomers to the country-music business seek love and stardom.

6.4
13
Broken English

Broken English

2007 · 1h 33m · Movie

Since college, Nora hasn't had much luck with men. Now in her 30s, she works in a NYC hotel going nowhere. That is, until she meets Julien.

6.3
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Abandoned

Abandoned

2010 · 1h 28m · Movie

Mary follows her boyfriend to the hospital for his orthopedic surgery. While she has a coffee in the cafeteria, he disappears. He's not on the hospital computer or CCTV.

5.1
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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

2018 · 1h 38m · Movie

In the final fifteen years of the life of legendary director Orson Welles, he pins his Hollywood comeback hopes on a film, The Other Side of the Wind (2018), in itself a film about an aging film director trying to finish his last ...

7.4
16
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

2018 · 1h 28m · Movie

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.

7.4
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78/52

78/52

2017 · 1h 31m · Movie

An unprecedented look at the iconic shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), the "man behind the curtain", and the screen murder that profoundly changed the course of world cinema.

7.3
18
They All Laughed

They All Laughed

1981 · 1h 55m · Movie

A madcap private-eye caper about a team of detectives who are following, and are being followed by, a group of beautiful women.

6.3
19
Texasville

Texasville

1990 · 2h 6m · Movie

The summer of 1984: 32 years after Duane Jackson captained the high school football team and Jacy Farrow was homecoming queen, the small town of Anarene, Texas prepares for its centennial celebration. Oil prices are down, banks ar...

6.0
20
Audrey

Audrey

2020 · 1h 40m · Movie

Filmmaker Helena Coan examines the remarkable life and career of actress, fashion icon and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn.

7.4
21
Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon

1976 · 2h 1m · Movie

Buck and lawyer Leo accidentally get into movie production in the early days (1910).

6.2
22
Humboldt County

Humboldt County

2008 · 1h 37m · Movie

A disillusioned medical student is stranded for a summer in a remote community of counterculture pot farmers, the last place in the world he imagined he would discover himself.

6.2
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The Great Buster

The Great Buster

2018 · 1h 42m · Movie

Documentary on the life and works of comic genius Buster Keaton, directed by Peter Bogdanovich.

7.5
24
Mr. Jealousy

Mr. Jealousy

1998 · 1h 43m · Movie

A writer becomes obsessed with his girlfriend's former boyfriend, now a very successful novelist. To discover if the ex-boyfriend still has feeling for his old love, the writer joins the novelist's group therapy meetings.

6.3
25
Bella Mafia

Bella Mafia

1997 · 1h 57m · Movie

Starting in Palermo, Italy, 1977 - The ups and downs of a mafia family opposed to drug trade until the men are murdered and the widows take over.

6.8
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream

2007 · 4h 19m · Movie

"Runnin' Down A Dream," a film directed by cinema legend Peter Bogdanovich, is the story of one of America's great rock and roll bands told as never before.

8.6
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Daisy Miller

Daisy Miller

1974 · 1h 31m · Movie

In this comedy of manners, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.

6.2
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Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women

Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women

1968 · 1h 18m · Movie

Astronauts landing on Venus encounter dangerous creatures and almost meet some sexy Venusian women who like to sun-bathe in hip-hugging skin-tight pants and seashell brassieres.

2.9
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To Sir, with Love II

To Sir, with Love II

1996 · 1h 32m · Movie

After 30 years of teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of teaching kids in an inner-city school proves to be too much to resist.

6.4
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Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies

2020 · 2h 10m · Movie

The story chronicles nudity's evolution in cinema from silent era through #MeToo, examining moral shifts, gender dynamics, artistic intent vs. exploitation, and nudity's role in storytelling amid proliferation of compelling content.

6.4
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Lions Love (... and Lies)

Lions Love (... and Lies)

1969 · 1h 52m · Movie

Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.

5.9
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At Long Last Love

At Long Last Love

1975 · 1h 58m · Movie

Four socialite old friends unexpectedly clash, and switch partners during a party and attempt to make each other jealous.

5.3
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Directed by John Ford

Directed by John Ford

1971 · 1h 39m · Movie

A documentary on the life and films of director John Ford.

7.7
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Phantom Halo

Phantom Halo

2014 · 1h 27m · Movie

A scheme for making easy money goes awry when a young man turns to counterfeiting to repay his father's debts.

5.1
35
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

2014 · 1h 31m · Movie

A look at the life and work of the great theatre, radio and film artist.

6.9
36
King of Cool

King of Cool

2021 · 1h 47m · Movie

The story of Dean Martin.

7.8