Bob Balaban
26 titles
Filmography
26 results

Best in Show
(2000)THIS IS SPINAL TAP director, Christopher Guest, takes a hilarious look at dog shows, their participants and the pooches who make it all worth while - a fly-fishing bloodhound owner, squabbling yuppie lawyers, a bimbo wife and couple with terriers. It's simply barking!

Hitchcock/Truffaut
(2015)HD. Legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock's famed interview with French auteur Francois Truffaut is the focus of this illuminating documentary.

A Mighty Wind
(2003)The newest "mockumentary" from the inimitable Christopher Guest hilariously captures the reunion of 1960s folk musicians in New York, with a stellar ensemble cast.

Recount
(2008)Kevin Spacey stars in this gripping film that explores the human drama surrounding the controversial 2000 presidential election.

End of the Line
(1987)When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate headquarters and confront the president.

Eva Hesse
(2016)Documentary feature film focusing on the life and times of Eva Hesse, a ground-breaking artist who was active in New York and Germany in the 1960's.

Isle of Dogs
(2018)HD. Wes Anderson directed this hilarious stop-motion animated tale set in a future Japan in which all dogs have been exiled to Trash Island.

Altered States
(1980)A psychophysicologist's work on human consciousness intensifies, and only the strong-willed love of his anthropologist wife, Emily, can save him.

Absence of Malice
(1981)In America, can a man be guilty until proven innocent? Suppose you picked up this morning's newspaper and your life was a front page headline... and everything they said was accurate but not true. This is the dilemma that must be faced in this timely drama about the incredible power of the press. Michael Gallagher (played by Paul Newman in an Oscar®-nominated role) reads in the...

Mascots
(2016)Sports mascots reveal the peculiarities of their ultra-competitive world as they pursue the highest honour in their field: the Gold Fluffy.

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
(2016)A nervous nurse who scares easily finds herself caring for an ailing horror novelist while living in a house with hidden secrets.

An L.A. Minute
(2018)In search of a good luck charm that he inadvertently gave away, a successful author meets a young performance artist who turns his life upside down.

The Late Shift
(1996)In 1990, Johnny Carson announced he was retiring and all hell broke loose. While NBC schemed, CBS dreamed, and the question on everyone's lips was "Who will get Johnny's job?" Jay Leno thought he deserved it, David Letterman knew he had earned it and everybody else wanted a piece of the action. Kathy Bates won a Golden Globe(R) for her performance.
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
(1981)Ken Harrison, a respected sculptor, is left as a paraplegic after a horrific car accident, and argues for his right to die as his doctor does everything he can to keep him alive.

Lady in the Water
(2006)HD. M. Night Shyamalan's cinematic fairy tale about an apartment superintendent who discovers an otherworldly creature in the complex's pool.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
(1977)In this Steven Spielberg classic, newly restored in 4K, Richard Dreyfuss is an average man who experiences a close encounter, leading him and the government on a path toward alien contact.

Capote
(2005)Based on the true story, Truman Capote finds himself becoming disturbingly close to one of the murderers of a Kansas family that he is writing about.

The Bank Shot
(1974)Fresh from his recent jailbreak, criminal mastermind Walter Ballantine (George C. Scott) is already plotting his next bank heist. And this time he's thinking big...he's not just taking the loot, he's stealing the whole bank! Beset by a hapless crew, a lusty backer and an overzealous prison warden, Ballantine soon discovers that when your getaway vehicle is the bank itself, it pays to be America's most driven criminal. Brimming with wonderful and imaginative silliness.

Carl Laemmle
(2019)Discover the extraordinary life story of the German-Jewish immigrant, who founded Universal Pictures and saved Jewish families from Nazi Germany.

Deconstructing Harry
(1997)Harry Block, who suffers from writer's block and eagerly awaits his award, remembers some incredibly momentous times from his past.