Movies by Jonathan Demme
As part of the cast:
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Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011)
Cast: Roger Corman, Jonathan Demme, Robert De Niro …
Directed by: Alex Stapleton
B-movie maestro Roger Corman is celebrated in this star-packed documentary. While trafficking in movies featuring lots of blood, violence and nudity, Corman nonetheless managed to tackle…
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Zoom In: Stories Behind the 2007 Gotham Awards (2007)
Cast: Dave Karger, Owen Gleiberman, Javier Bardem …
Directed by: Mario Diaz
This hourlong documentary showcases the challenges and triumphs of some of 2007's best independent films and provides an inside look at how the Gotham Awards play a pivotal role in…
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That Thing You Do! (1996)
Cast: Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler, Johnathon Schaech …
Directed by: Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks wrote and directed this tribute to the bubblegum bands of early rock 'n' roll. In 1964, teenage garage band The One-ders -- singer Jimmy (Johnathon Schaech), guitarist…
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Into the Night (1985)
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Farnsworth …
Directed by: John Landis
&NFb;&NFb_;For Ed Okin (Jeff Goldblum), life is miserable day after day. He's headed nowhere with his job as an aerospace engineer, and his wife is cheating on him. But his prospects…
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Citizen's Band (1977)
Cast: Jonathan Demme, Paul Le Mat, Candy Clark …
Director Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs) weaves the disarmingly quirky tales of Chrome Angel (Charles Napier), Spider (Paul Le Mat) and Blood (Bruce McGill), among other characters,…
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I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful (2011)
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme's documentary began as a film about Hurricane Katrina but became a portrait of one of the disaster's most colorful survivors: Carolyn Parker, a woman determined to…
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Neil Young Journeys (2011)
Cast: Neil Young
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Following rocker Neil Young to his Toronto hometown, Jonathan Demme captures the artist live in concert at Massey Hall and on the road in Ontario. This film is the third in Demme's Neil…
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Wholphin: Issue 10 (2010)
Cast: Lauren Bacall, Ben Gazzara, Olivia Thirlby …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme, Natalie Portman, Spencer Susser …
Wholphin, the innovative DVD magazine, presents another collection of must-see shorts. Among the 11 films are director Jonathan Demme's "Joe and Linda Flooded Out of Holy Cross" and…
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Neil Young Trunk Show (2009)
Cast: Neil Young
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme -- who already immortalized Neil Young in the easygoing 2006 concert film Heart of Gold -- returns to mine the folk-rocker's more deliriously hard-rocking side, utilizing…
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Rachel Getting Married (2008)
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Longstanding family conflicts resurface when drama queen Kym, a former model who's been in and out of rehab for 10 years, returns to her parents' home just before her sister's…
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Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains (2007)
Cast: Jimmy Carter
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Hollywood director Jonathan Demme tackles the documentary form in this intimate portrait of Jimmy Carter, explicating the former president's view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by…
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Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006)
Cast: Neil Young, Pegi Young, Emmylou Harris …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Acclaimed director Jonathan Demme turns his cameras on musician Neil Young in this intimate two-night concert. Nashville, Tenn.'s landmark Ryman Auditorium provides superb acoustics for…
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The Agronomist (2004)
Cast: Jean Dominique, Ronald Reagan, Aboudja …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Directed by Jonathan Demme, this profile of Haitian radio journalist and human rights activist Jean Dominique weaves historical footage of Haiti's troubled past with one-on-one…
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The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
In this remake of the 1962 political thriller, Capt. Bennett Marco (Denzel Washington) and Sgt. Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber) are taken captive during the first Persian Gulf War and…
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The Truth About Charlie (2002)
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Thandie Newton, Tim Robbins …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Romance and suspense ignite a modern Paris backdrop in director Jonathan Demme's fresh take on the Stanley Donen film Charade (also included on this disc). Regina (Thandie Newton) meets…
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Beloved (1998)
Cast: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Oprah Winfrey stars as a former slave who suffers mightily to protect her family in this adaptation of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about slavery's lasting effects…
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Storefront Hitchcock (1997)
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Director Jonathan Demme gets to the core of singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock's great strength -- his solo acoustic performances -- in this sparsely set, simply lit concert film in which…
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Subway Stories (1997)
Cast: Zachary Taylor, Bill Irwin, Jerry Stiller …
Directed by: Lucas Platt, Craig McKay, Ted Demme …
An all-star cast and host of renowned directors grace this collection of 10 intriguing vignettes based on real-life tales of New York's subway riders. A disabled beggar (Denis Leary) and…
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Philadelphia (1993)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
In this heartfelt drama, Philadelphia attorney Andrew Beckett launches a wrongful termination suit against the hand that feeds him when his law firm finds out about his HIV-positive status --…
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
In this pulse-pounding adaptation of Thomas Harris's novel, FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal…
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Married to the Mob (1988)
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Fed up Mafia wife Angela de Marco (Michelle Pfeiffer) wants out of "the life" and gets her chance when mob boss Tony Russo (Dean Stockwell) ices her hit-man hubby (Alec Baldwin), who's…
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Swimming to Cambodia (1987)
Cast: Spalding Gray, Sam Waterston, Ira Wheeler …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Director Jonathan Demme captures monologuist Spalding Gray spinning his brilliant conversational web in this one-man reminiscence (based on his hit Broadway show) about his small role in the…
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Something Wild (1986)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
The boring life of businessman Charles Driggs (Jeff Daniels) suddenly changes when free-spirited Audrey (Melanie Griffith) "kidnaps" him for a weekend trip. They pose as a married couple,…
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Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense (1984)
Cast: David Byrne, Talking Heads
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Director Jonathan Demme expertly crafted this unrivaled concert film from footage of three live gigs at Hollywood's Pantages Theatre. The staging concept -- the brainchild of Talking…
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Swing Shift (1984)
Cast: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
During World War II, a young woman (Goldie Hawn) takes a Rosie the Riveter-type job on a home-front factory assembly line while her husband is away defending democracy. Directed by Jonathan…
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Who Am I This Time? (1982)
Cast: Susan Sarandon, Christopher Walken, Robert Ridgely …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Turning to community theater to help overcome his shyness, an awkward hardware store clerk (Christopher Walken) gets cast as Stanley in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and plays opposite a…
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Melvin and Howard (1980)
Cast: Paul Le Mat, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
In this delightful American fable, everyday loser Melvin (Paul Le Mat) picks up a haggard old man (Jason Robards) in the Nevada desert. Eight years later, the hitchhiker turns out to have…
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Last Embrace (1979)
Cast: Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin, John Glover …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
After helplessly witnessing his wife's cold-blooded murder, emotionally devastated government intelligence officer Harry (Roy Scheider) attempts to piece his life back together while…
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Crazy Mama (1975)
Cast: Cloris Leachman, Stuart Whitman, Ann Sothern …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
In this joyous, unrelentlessly kitschy celebration of 1950s America, three outlaw ladies head back to their hometown to take over a family farm that was lost during the Great Depression.…
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Caged Heat (1974)
Cast: Juanita Brown, Roberta Collins, Donald Heitzer …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
A new inmate at a women's prison falls in with a tough band of sex-starved chicks. When they incur the wrath of the prison's sadistic warden, the girls are tortured with…