Monte Hellman

Monte Hellman

Monte Hellman (born Monte Jay Himmelbaum; July 12, 1929 — April 20, 2021) ​was an American film director, producer, writer, and editor. He was born in New York City, where his parents were visiting, but he grew up in Los Angeles.Hellman began his career as an editor's apprentice at ABC TV, and made his directorial debut with the horror film "Beast from Haunted Cave" (1959), produced by Roger Corman. He would later gain critical recognition for the Westerns "The Shooting" and "Ride in the Whirlwind" (both 1966) starring Jack Nicholson, and the independent road movie "Two-Lane Blacktop" (1971) starring James Taylor and Dennis Wilson. His later directorial work included the slasher film "Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!" (1989) and the independent thriller "Road to Nowhere" (2010). Description above from the Wikipedia article Monte Hellman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Monte Hellman
  • Popularity: 3.482
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1929-07-12
  • Place of Birth: Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As: Monte Himmelbaum, M. Hellman, Monte Jay Himmelbaum
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Monte Hellman Movies

  • 1999
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    L.A. Without a Map

    L.A. Without a Map

    5.9 1999 HD

    An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries...

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  • 2003
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    Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

    Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

    7.1 2003 HD

    The chronicle of the mind-blowing journey that was Hollywood during the seventies; the true and gripping story of the last golden age of American...

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  • 1993
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    Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

    Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

    6.8 1993 HD

    This straight-talking program seeks to understand the enigmatic and controversial Sam Peckinpah, whose violent films such as The Wild Bunch and Straw...

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  • 1998
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    Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

    Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

    1 1998 HD

    Ekchart Schmidt examines the machinery behind the dream factory; the Hollywood myth is unmasked. How does the studio industry work? What role does...

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  • 1987
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    Someone to Love

    Someone to Love

    5.3 1987 HD

    A Hollywood film director assembles a group of friends and strangers for a social gathering on Valentines Day in a deserted movie theater where he...

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  • 1986
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    Plunging On Alone: Monte Hellman's Life in a Day

    Plunging On Alone: Monte Hellman's Life in a Day

    1 1986 HD

    Monte Hellman was born in 1932. By 1986 he made eight features, but had not directed for six years. I had made as many documentaries, but had not...

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  • 2006
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    Wanderlust

    Wanderlust

    5 2006 HD

    A look at the mystique of road movies, combining interviews, film clips, music, photography, literature and a narrative storyline featuring Paul Rudd...

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  • 1987
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    Out of the Blue and Into the Black

    Out of the Blue and Into the Black

    1 1987 HD

    Paul Joyce’s Out of the Blue and Into the Black is an insightful documentary surveying American independent film production post-Easy Rider and...

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  • 1994
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    Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder

    Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder

    6 1994 HD

    A documentary profile on Quentin Tarantino broadcast by the BBC's "Omnibus" strand in 1994 to coincide with "Pulp Fiction" hitting UK cinemas.

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  • 1989
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    Hellman Rider

    Hellman Rider

    6 1989 HD

    Interview film with Monte Hellman.

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  • 1982
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    Room 666

    Room 666

    6.4 1982 HD

    During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera and...

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  • 1971
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    The Christian Licorice Store

    The Christian Licorice Store

    4.4 1971 HD

    A tennis champ falls in with the Hollywood crowd, finds himself being corrupted by the life in the fast lane.

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  • 2007
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    Make it Three Yards: A Conversation with James Taylor

    Make it Three Yards: A Conversation with James Taylor

    1 2007 HD

    After not having seen each other in thirty-five years, Monte Hellman and James Taylor sat down for this conversation, recorded in the fall of 2007 in...

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  • 2013
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    A Fuller Life

    A Fuller Life

    6.6 2013 HD

    Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs in this unconventional documentary directed by Fuller's only...

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  • 2010
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    Godard Made in USA

    Godard Made in USA

    1 2010 HD

    Documentary by Luc Lagier exploring Godard's career as a filmmaker, the production of Breathless and his influence and his relationship with American...

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  • 2010
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    Sodankylä Forever

    Sodankylä Forever

    1 2010 HD

    The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets....

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  • 1993
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    Warren Oates: Across the Border

    Warren Oates: Across the Border

    5.7 1993 HD

    A retrospective of the work of the late actor Warren Oates, with clips from his films and interviews with cast and crew members who worked with him.

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  • 2011
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    Produce Your Own Damn Movie!

    Produce Your Own Damn Movie!

    1 2011 HD

    When it comes to producing, no one speaks with more authority than Lloyd Kaufman creator of The Toxic Avenger and founder of the longest-running...

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  • 2003
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    A Decade Under the Influence

    A Decade Under the Influence

    8 2003 HD

    A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today's best filmmakers interview the influential...

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  • 1992
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    Reservoir Dogs

    Reservoir Dogs

    8.1 1992 HD

    A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors --...

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  • 1980
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    The Big Red One

    The Big Red One

    6.7 1980 HD

    A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian...

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  • 1978
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    China 9, Liberty 37

    China 9, Liberty 37

    5.3 1978 HD

    Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he agrees to murder Matthew, a miner who has steadfastly refused...

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  • 1978
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    China 9, Liberty 37

    China 9, Liberty 37

    5.3 1978 HD

    Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he agrees to murder Matthew, a miner who has steadfastly refused...

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  • 1978
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    China 9, Liberty 37

    China 9, Liberty 37

    5.3 1978 HD

    Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he agrees to murder Matthew, a miner who has steadfastly refused...

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  • 1971
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    Two-Lane Blacktop

    Two-Lane Blacktop

    6.9 1971 HD

    A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money,...

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  • 1974
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    Cockfighter

    Cockfighter

    6 1974 HD

    A man who trains fighting cocks vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship.

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  • 1959
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    Beast from Haunted Cave

    Beast from Haunted Cave

    4.6 1959 HD

    A gold thief and his gang use a skier's lodge and meet a monster covered with cobwebs.

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  • 1964
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    Cordillera

    Cordillera

    6 1964 HD

    DESTROY THIS MAN and a fortune in diamonds is yours. A Filipino version of 1964's FLIGHT TO FURY, filmed back-to-back with that film.

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  • 2006
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    Trapped Ashes

    Trapped Ashes

    5 2006 HD

    Trapped in a house of horror, seven people discover that the only way they'll get out alive is to tell their scariest stories.

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  • 1966
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    Ride in the Whirlwind

    Ride in the Whirlwind

    6.2 1966 HD

    Three cowboys, mistaken for members of an outlaw gang, are relentlessly pursued by a posse.

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  • 1966
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    The Shooting

    The Shooting

    6.3 1966 HD

    Two miners agree to guide a mysterious woman, who has appeared in their camp from nowhere, to a nearby town; but soon, because of her erratic...

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  • 1966
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    The Shooting

    The Shooting

    6.3 1966 HD

    Two miners agree to guide a mysterious woman, who has appeared in their camp from nowhere, to a nearby town; but soon, because of her erratic...

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  • 2010
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    Road to Nowhere

    Road to Nowhere

    5.7 2010 HD

    A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme...

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  • 2010
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    Road to Nowhere

    Road to Nowhere

    5.7 2010 HD

    A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme...

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  • 1964
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    Back Door to Hell

    Back Door to Hell

    5.7 1964 HD

    During WWII, a three-man commando team places its trust in the hands of a band of Filipino resistors, as they try to knock out a Japenese...

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  • 1963
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    The Terror

    The Terror

    5.117 1963 HD

    Lt. Andre Duvalier awakens on a beach to the sight of a strange woman who leads him to the gothic, towering castle that serves as home to an eerie...

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  • 1988
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    Iguana

    Iguana

    5.8 1988 HD

    A grotesquely disfigured harpooner called Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in the 19th century. One night he...

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  • 1988
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    Iguana

    Iguana

    5.8 1988 HD

    A grotesquely disfigured harpooner called Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in the 19th century. One night he...

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  • 1974
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    Cockfighter

    Cockfighter

    6 1974 HD

    A man who trains fighting cocks vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship.

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  • 1996
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    To Have and to Hold

    To Have and to Hold

    4 1996 HD

    An Australian widower living in New Guinea starts a relationship with a woman very similar to his much-beloved wife, but their life together turns...

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  • 1993
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    Love, Cheat & Steal

    Love, Cheat & Steal

    4.7 1993 HD

    Paul Harrington thinks he has the perfect wife... stunning, kind, and ambitious. Yet behind Lauren's pretty face lies a wicked person who sent her...

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  • 1993
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    Grey Knight

    Grey Knight

    5.2 1993 HD

    During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers accidentally free an evil voodoo entity brought back by slave traders. The entity possesses the dead...

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  • 2013
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    Venice 70: Future Reloaded

    Venice 70: Future Reloaded

    5.2 2013 HD

    Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of...

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  • 1964
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    Flight to Fury

    Flight to Fury

    5.7 1964 HD

    This adventure is set in the Philippines and chronicles the exploits of two men who survive a plane crash in the jungle. One of the men is an...

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  • 1974
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    Shatter

    Shatter

    5.8 1974 HD

    Shatter, an international contract killer, has been assigned to assassinate the President of a small African country and collect his fee from a bank...

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  • 1989
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    Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!

    Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!

    3.9 1989 HD

    Ricky Caldwell, the notorious 'Killer Santa Claus', awakens from a six-year coma after being kept alive on life-support by a slightly crazed doctor...

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  • 1989
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    Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!

    Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!

    3.9 1989 HD

    Ricky Caldwell, the notorious 'Killer Santa Claus', awakens from a six-year coma after being kept alive on life-support by a slightly crazed doctor...

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  • 1975
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    The Killer Elite

    The Killer Elite

    5.764 1975 HD

    Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the CIA, and while on a case...

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  • 2006
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    Stanley's Girlfriend

    Stanley's Girlfriend

    8 2006 HD

    Set in 1950's Hollywood, two filmmakers become unlikely friends: Leo, who writes violent B-movies, and Stanley, a promising director. Nothing can...

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  • 1981
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    Inside the Coppola Personality

    Inside the Coppola Personality

    7 1981 HD

    Monte Hellman's short portrait of Francis Ford Coppola discussing business and craft at home and on the set of his Zoetrope Studios.

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  • 2007
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    Somewhere Near Salinas: A Conversation with Kris Kristofferson

    Somewhere Near Salinas: A Conversation with Kris Kristofferson

    1 2007 HD

    This interview features director Monte Hellman and singer-songwriter-actor Kris Kristofferson. It was filmed in Los Angeles in the summer of 2007.

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  • 2007
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    Make it Three Yards: A Conversation with James Taylor

    Make it Three Yards: A Conversation with James Taylor

    1 2007 HD

    After not having seen each other in thirty-five years, Monte Hellman and James Taylor sat down for this conversation, recorded in the fall of 2007 in...

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  • 2007
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    Somewhere Near Salinas: A Conversation with Kris Kristofferson

    Somewhere Near Salinas: A Conversation with Kris Kristofferson

    1 2007 HD

    This interview features director Monte Hellman and singer-songwriter-actor Kris Kristofferson. It was filmed in Los Angeles in the summer of 2007.

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  • 1968
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    Head

    Head

    6.1 1968 HD

    In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and...

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  • 1967
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    The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

    The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

    6.3 1967 HD

    Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as...

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  • 2013
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    Vive L'Amour

    Vive L'Amour

    1 2013 HD

    A short film made for Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded (2013).

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  • 2013
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    Strutter

    Strutter

    1 2013 HD

    A young musician recovers from the loss of his girlfriend with the help of his female filmmaker friend, and even forms a friendship with the rival...

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  • 1988
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    Iguana

    Iguana

    5.8 1988 HD

    A grotesquely disfigured harpooner called Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in the 19th century. One night he...

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  • 1971
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    Two-Lane Blacktop

    Two-Lane Blacktop

    6.9 1971 HD

    A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money,...

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  • 1979
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    Avalanche Express

    Avalanche Express

    4.7 1979 HD

    CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel...

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  • 1966
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    The Shooting

    The Shooting

    6.3 1966 HD

    Two miners agree to guide a mysterious woman, who has appeared in their camp from nowhere, to a nearby town; but soon, because of her erratic...

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  • 2007
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    Make it Three Yards: A Conversation with James Taylor

    Make it Three Yards: A Conversation with James Taylor

    1 2007 HD

    After not having seen each other in thirty-five years, Monte Hellman and James Taylor sat down for this conversation, recorded in the fall of 2007 in...

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  • 2007
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    Sure Did Talk to You: A Conversation with Walter Coblenz, Jared Hellman and Michael Laughlin

    Sure Did Talk to You: A Conversation with Walter Coblenz, Jared Hellman and Michael Laughlin

    1 2007 HD

    An interview with the producers of Monte Hellman's 1971 film TWO-LANE BLACKTOP.

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  • 2007
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    On the Road Again: 'Two-Lane Blacktop' Revisited

    On the Road Again: 'Two-Lane Blacktop' Revisited

    1 2007 HD

    A retrospective documentary on the making of Monte Hellman's 1971 film TWO-LANE BLACKTOP.

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  • 2007
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    Sure Did Talk to You: A Conversation with Walter Coblenz, Jared Hellman and Michael Laughlin

    Sure Did Talk to You: A Conversation with Walter Coblenz, Jared Hellman and Michael Laughlin

    1 2007 HD

    An interview with the producers of Monte Hellman's 1971 film TWO-LANE BLACKTOP.

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  • 1965
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    Bus Riley's Back in Town

    Bus Riley's Back in Town

    5.2 1965 HD

    Bus Riley returns to his small town after time in the army. On his return, his ex-girlfriend wants to resume their relationship. The only problem is...

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  • 1966
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    Ride in the Whirlwind

    Ride in the Whirlwind

    6.2 1966 HD

    Three cowboys, mistaken for members of an outlaw gang, are relentlessly pursued by a posse.

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  • 1966
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    Ride in the Whirlwind

    Ride in the Whirlwind

    6.2 1966 HD

    Three cowboys, mistaken for members of an outlaw gang, are relentlessly pursued by a posse.

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  • 1960
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    The Wild Ride

    The Wild Ride

    5 1960 HD

    A rebellious punk of the beat generation spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in between partying and troublemaking.

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  • 1969
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    Target: Harry

    Target: Harry

    5.9 1969 HD

    Pilot Harry Black is hired to fly a man named Carlyle to Istanbul, where he's murdered. Now, mysterious Diane Reed and a local gangster, Rashi, are...

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  • 1977
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    Sudden Death

    Sudden Death

    8 1977 HD

    When Ed Neilson's entire family is viciously murdered, he pleads with retired CIA operative Duke Smith (Robert Conrad) to investigate. He refuses,...

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  • 1964
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    Flight to Fury

    Flight to Fury

    5.7 1964 HD

    This adventure is set in the Philippines and chronicles the exploits of two men who survive a plane crash in the jungle. One of the men is an...

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  • 1964
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    Flight to Fury

    Flight to Fury

    5.7 1964 HD

    This adventure is set in the Philippines and chronicles the exploits of two men who survive a plane crash in the jungle. One of the men is an...

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  • 1966
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    The Wild Angels

    The Wild Angels

    5.5 1966 HD

    A motorcycle gang arrives in a small town in search of a motorcycle that has been stolen by a rival gang; but, pursued by the police, one of its...

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