John Waters
23 titles
Filmography
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Scala!!!
(2024)Engrossing tribute to London’s legendary Scala cinema, aptly subtitled: Or, the incredibly strange rise and fall of the world’s wildest cinema and how it influenced a mixed-up generation of weirdos and misfits.

Wall Writers
(2016)This documentary, narrated by John Waters, looks into graffiti in its innocence in the late 1960s and early 1970s and the legendary writers behind it.

I Am Divine
(2014)The complex life of Divine, the gleefully brash muse of director John Waters, who became one of the first drag superstars of the big screen.

Little Richard: I Am Everything
(2023)In this groundbreaking look at the life and legacy of a global icon, Emmy®-winning filmmaker Lisa Cortés (HBO's The Apollo) explores the Black queer origins of rock n' roll through the lens of celebrated artist Richard Penniman – better known as Little Richard. Through a wealth of archival footage and performances revealing his complicated inner world, the film traces Richard's humble origins in a segregated Macon, Georgia to his explosive entry into the whitewashed canon of American popular music. Featuring interviews with friends, family, and fellow musicians, as well as Black and queer scholars, Little Richard: I Am Everything illuminates how Richard created an art form for unabashed self-expression that he was ultimately never able to give himself.

Grievous Bodily Harm
(1988)What happened to Claudine? That's what her husband, Morris Martin, is asking. He can see her there, on the videotape, in the sex scenes. But she's not home and friends say she's dead. Now Morris is killing people, trying to get to Claudine's world.

Breaker Morant
(1980)During the Boer War, an English-Australian lieutenant is tried for war crimes after executing captured Boers and a German missionary.

Lynch/Oz
(2023)Is David Lynch trapped in the land of Oz? Six distinct perspectives—narrated by some of contemporary cinema’s most exciting voices—will take us down the proverbial rabbit hole, helping us re-experience and re-interpret Victor Fleming’s THE WIZARD OF OZ by way of David Lynch, to deliver a whole new appreciation for Lynch’s symbolism through the lens of his greatest influence.
Fireflies
City slickers Lill and Perry escape to a rural idyll and begin to assimilate into a small community where everyone knows everyone else's business. The focus of the town and the show is the local volunteer fire service but that's only a device. While there is always a fire to put out the stories are primarily about the lives of the firefighters and those around them, away from the forefront.

Mansfield 66/67
(2017)Jayne Mansfield. Goddess? Genius? Satanist? Discover the true story of Jayne Mansfield's final years (based on rumour and hearsay.)

Tab Hunter Confidential
(2015)In the 1950s, Tab Hunter is number one at the box office and number one on the music charts. He is Hollywood's most sought-after star and America's boy next door. Natalie Wood, Debbie Reynolds and Sophia Loren are just a few of the actresses he is romantically linked to. Nothing, it seems, can damage Tab Hunter's career. Nothing, that is, except for the fact that Tab Hunter is secretly gay.

2:22
(2017)A paralyzing flash of light and sound that comes every day at the same time begins to destroy the life of a New York City air traffic controller.

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
(2019)This film explores infamous attorney Roy Cohn's rise to power and how his influence continues to rule today.

The Real Macaw
(1998)An elderly man’s bleak future is saved by his eager grandson and an ancient talking macaw who knows where his ex-pirate master buried big treasure.

Fragments of Paradise
(2022)An intimate look at the life of the "godfather" of avant-garde cinema, Jonas Mekas. From his arrival in New York City as a displaced person in 1949 to his death in 2019, he chronicled the trauma and loss of exile while pioneering institutions to support independent film. This is an intimate look at his life and work and ultimately is a story about finding beauty amidst profound loss.

Sweet and Lowdown
(1999)A gifted but mercurial jazz guitarist in the 1930s finds his struggles with envy and mobsters changed by his love for a mute woman.

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
(2007)This documentary chronicles the life and career of William Castle, known for his horror films with outrageous audience participation gimmicks.

Excision
(2012)Dreaming of a career in medicine, a teen girl with a chronically-ill sister becomes darkly obsessed with scabs, surgery, and losing her virginity.

Blaze
(2022)After witnessing a violent crime, young Blaze retreats into her vibrant imagination while shutting out the outside world to cope with what she saw.

Suburban Gothic
(2014)Raymond has a prestigious MBA, but he can't find work. Kicked out of his big city apartment, Raymond returns home to his overbearing mother, ex-jock father, and beer-bellied classmates. But when a vengeful ghost terrorises the small town, the city-boy recruits Becca, a badass local bartender, to solve the mystery of the spirit threatening everyone's lives.

Seed of Chucky
(2004)When everyone's favourite killer doll and his homicidal honey are brought back to life by their orphaned offspring, they take Tinseltown by storm in a wild new rampage of murderous mayhem.