Big Time Operators
Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. Unfortunately they can't sell it for the fortune they hoped as they discover it is falling down and almost worthless.
Laughter in Paradise
When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something which goes completely against their nature. NB: This is the film which introduced Audrey Hepburn.
Buddy
An eccentric socialite raises a gorilla as her son.
The Cat and the Canary
Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight. Wally fears for Joyce when she is declared the sole inheritor, but all are alarmed when Crosby turns up dead.
Life Is Sweet
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.
Rules Don't Apply
It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes' behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974, the LA-based channel's eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the untapped power of cable television.
Secondhand Lions
The comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the men's lives.
What's Up Connection
When a Hong Kong teenager from a poor family wins a trip to Japan, he unleashes a chain of events that will soon bring him from his secluded fishing village to Tokyo. On the way, he connects with a barely competent tour guide and a gender-fluid pickpocket. Upon returning home with this merry band of schemers, he and his family of counterfeiters discover that a multinational conglomerate led by a ruthless Japanese developer has found the village, and is determined to raze it to build the new center of world trade.
Treasure Hunt
Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.
Grey Gardens
Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.
Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story
The hilarious and bizarre story of Frank Sidebottom, the cult British comedian in a papier mâché head, and the secretive life of Chris Sievey, the artist trapped inside.
Bhool Bhulaiyaa
NRI Siddharth Chaturvedi and his wife Avni return to Siddharth's family's ancestral Varanasi palace while disregarding warnings of a curse and paranormal phenomena. Soon enough, inexplicable events begin occuring, which forces Siddharth to consult the eccentric psychiatrist Aditya Shrivastav to help solve the mystery.
Vernon, Florida
Early Errol Morris documentary intersplices random chatter he captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida. A few examples? The preacher giving a sermon on the definition of the word "Therefore," and the obsessive turkey hunter who speaks reverentially of the "gobblers" he likes to track down and kill.
Benny & Joon
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
Rubin and Ed
Reclusive Rubin Farr teams up with vocal but unsuccessful multi-level salesman Ed Tuttle on a quest to bury Rubin's dead cat in the "perfect spot." Their trip takes them across Utah's desert where they have run-ins with Ed's ex-wife Rula and an elusive Andy Warhol critic.
Juliet of the Spirits
Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.
Auntie Mame
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.
Hello, My Name Is Doris
A self-help seminar inspires a sixty-something woman to romantically pursue her younger co-worker.
All About Steve
After one short blind date, Mary Horowitz, a brilliant and eccentric crossword constructor, is convinced that Steve, a CCN cameraman, is her soul mate. Because his job takes him hither and yon, she crisscrosses the country following Steve, with the encouragement of a reporter, turning up at media events he's at to convince him they are perfect for each other. Along the way, she befriends an assortment of misfits who accept her for who she is, leading her to reassess her reasons for this strange journey.
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Basil Dearden
Director
Stringer Davis
as
Fred Emmett
Leslie Phillips
as
Robin Carter
Alastair Sim
as
Deniston Russell
George Cole
as
Herbert Russell
Frank Welker
as
Buddy
John Ennis
as
Policeman
Rene Russo
as
Trudy Lintz
Elliott Nugent
Director
Elizabeth Patterson
as
Aunt Susan
Douglass Montgomery
as
Charlie Wilder
Nydia Westman
as
Cicily
Mike Leigh
Director
Timothy Spall
as
Aubrey
Jane Horrocks
as
Nicola
David Thewlis
as
Nicola's Lover
David Neilson
as
Steve
Warren Beatty
Director
Marshall Bell
as
Colonel Maxwell
Haley Bennett
as
Mamie Murphy
Michael Cavanaugh
as
Methodist Minister
Amy Madigan
as
Mrs. Bransford
Xan Cassavetes
Director
Quentin Tarantino
as
Self
Sam Peckinpah
as
Self
Alan Rudolph
as
Self
Jacqueline Bisset
as
Self
Eugene Osment
as
Doctor
Michael Caine
as
Garth
Robert Duvall
as
Hub
Emmanuelle Vaugier
as
Jasmine
Athene Seyler
as
Consuelo
Michael Ripper
as
Removal Man
Jimmy Edwards
as
Sir Roderick Ryall / Uncle Hercules
Alfie Bass
as
Tipster
Johnny Vegas
as
Himself - Interviewee
John Cooper Clarke
as
Himself - Interviewee
Priyadarshan
Director
Vidya Balan
as
Avni Chaturvedi
Paresh Rawal
as
Batukshankar Upadhyay
Rajpal Yadav
as
Chhote Pandit / Lal Hanuman
George Harris
as
Self
Jeremiah S. Chechik
Director
Oliver Platt
as
Eric
William H. Macy
as
Randy Burch
Julianne Moore
as
Ruthie
Johnny Depp
as
Sam
Howard Hesseman
as
Ed Tuttle
Crispin Glover
as
Rubin Farr
Karen Black
as
Rula
Federico Fellini
Director
Carlo Pisacane
as
Friar
Giulietta Masina
as
Giulietta Boldrini
Mino Doro
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Player
Anita Sanders
as
Susy's Guest
Forrest Tucker
as
Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside
Lee Patrick
as
Doris Upson
Barbara Pepper
as
Mrs. Krantz
Ron Nyman
as
Party Guest
Sally Field
as
Doris Miller
Kyle Mooney
as
Niles
Don Stark
as
Uncle Frank
Peter Gallagher
as
Willy Williams
Phil Traill
Director
Keith David
as
Corbitt
Sandra Bullock
as
Mary Horowitz
M.C. Gainey
as
Norm the Truck Driver
Carlos Gómez
as
Rescue Supervisor
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Masashi Yamamoto