Comedy Drama

1980

R

Plot: Jonathan Demmes breakthrough movie featured the shaggy energy and affection for marginal American eccentrics that marked his earlier Citizens Band (1977) and such later films as Som ...

Comedy

2003

R

Plot: Mr. Show alumnus Bob Odenkirks directorial debut, Melvin Goes to Dinner, is based on the play Phyrogiants! by Michael Blieden, who also adapted the script for the screen and ...

Film, TV & Radio

1998

Plot: In this medium-length (53 minutes) French-U.S. documentary made for European television, black filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles examines African-American film history. Narrating while clips, stills, and lo ...

1941

NR

Plot: The first of six Mr. Wong whodunits, Mr. Wong Detective presented Boris Karloff as pulp writer Hugh Wileys Oxford-educated Oriental sleuth. Wong is visited by Simon Dayton (John Hamilton) ...