John Waters

Fabulously offbeat and refreshingly upbeat, this lovable film gets friendly with the natives of the Salton Sea an inland ocean of massive fish kills, rotting resorts, and 120 degree nights located just minutes from urban Southern California. This award-winning film from directors Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer details the rise and fall of the Salton Sea, from its heyday as the "California Riviera" where boaters and Beach Boys mingled in paradise to its present state of decaying, forgotten ecological disaster. From wonderland to wasteland, PLAGUES & PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA captures a place far more interesting than the shopping malls and parking lots of suburban America, a wacky world where a beer-swilling Hungarian Revolutionary, a geriatric nudist, and a religious zealot building a monument to God all find solace and community. Crisply and hilariously narrated by oddball auteur John Waters, and featuring music by desert lounge rockers Friends of Deans Martinez, PLAGUES & PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA melds high camp with stark realism, offering both a sobering message about the consequences of tampering with nature and a heart-warming tale of individualism.

Late one night in Victorian-era Melbourne, two gentlemen board a hansom cab, but only one emerges alive in this classic whodunnit adapted from the bestselling book.

The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels, a new documentary by Kevin Sean Michaels, is a rollicking look at the independent cinema and film pioneering of Ted V. Mikels, who has been producing films for over 60 years. Way before limited-budget action films became termed as "grindhouse," Ted was wowing audiences with his own special brand of guts, gore, humor, violence and most of all style.

Chronicling the rise of LGBTQ artists and revolutionaries who used queer identity to push back against gay assimilation and homophobic punk culture.

Rigo Pex is a serious but eccentric sound engineer whose comfortable life is suddenly disturbed by a strange phenomenon: The Pink Flamingo.These pink birds have a powerful influence on our world and seem to follow him everywhere like pieces of a puzzle that Rigo must solve to reveal their mysterious meaning.He travels around the globe exploring the flamingo's impact on our society and discusses its inexplicable power with the likes of filmmaker John Waters, Internet sensation Pink Lady, music guru Allee Willis, pop band Kero Kero Bonito, among many others.Rigo will be our guide through this journey on how icons can help us find our own identity and eventually change our lives.

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.

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.

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.

The true story of an Australian journalist, who became a heroine of the French Resistance, as a saboteur who went on to lead 7,000 resistance members.

Sarah Sherman's unholy alter ego, Sarah Squirm, slithers onto your screen in her first HBO stand-up special. After four seasons (and counting) on Saturday Night Live, the comedian rips off the straitjacket, unleashing a festering and hilarious hour of bodily fluids, open-wound confessionals, and jokes that will leave scars on your soul.

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.

When a hitchhiker is picked up and murdered by an unseen assailant, two brothers become the prime suspects in the murder investigation.

From Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Office Space to Monty Python and Showgirls, hear from the cast and crew who made these films cult classics.

A love letter to film history, Sickies Making Films looks at our urge to censor movies and asks, Why? By focusing on the Maryland Board of Censors, the nation's longest lasting censor board, we discover reasons both absurd and surprisingly understandable.

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

Documentary about legendary 1960s sexploitation director Joe Sarno and his loyal wife and collaborator Peggy Sarno that charts the evolution of softcore porn, and reveals their passionate relationship on and off screen.

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.

Seed Money is the story of Chuck Holmes, a San Francisco pornographer turned philanthropist. Holmes helped shape and create gay identity in the years after Stonewall, and later became a major contributor to gay advocacy groups like the Human Rights Campaign and the LGBT Victory Fund, only to find later in life that while his money was welcome in philanthropic circles, he sometimes wasn't.

Police Officer Dan is haunted by guilt following an incident involving his old friend Steve. After a chance encounter with an eccentric hermit living in the woods, Dan suspects that this man may have been the last person to see Steve alive.