Bob Balaban
23 titles
Filmography
23 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.

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.

2010
(1984)A belated sequel to Stanley Kubrick's '2001 - A Space Odyssey' (1968) - an earlier Arthur C. Clarke novel. Nine years after the Jupiter voyage of Discovery went mysteriously awry, the Soviet Union and United States team together to launch a salvage operation, despite being on the brink of nuclear war. The questions to which the crew seek an answer include ascertaining what happened to the ship'...

Dead Bang
(1989)A Los Angeles detective's investigation into a patrolman's murder leads him to a nest of neo-Nazis in the Midwest.
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.

Rage
(2009)
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.

Ghost World
(2001)A mean-spirited prank on a lonely stranger morphs into a complicated relationship for a cynic drifting through life after her high school graduation.

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

The Majestic
(2001)Upon getting into a car accident, a Hollywood screenwriter develops amnesia and ends up in a small town, where he is mistaken for a missing war hero.

Dedication
(2007)After the death of his longtime collaborator, a cynical children’s book author is paired with a down-on-her-luck illustrator to pen the next big hit.