Search results for "Bob Balaban"
The Chair

The Chair

The Chair
TMDb: 7.6
N/A

At a major university, the first woman of color to become chair tries to meet the dizzying demands and high expectations of a failing English department.

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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Three to Tango

Three to Tango

Three to Tango
IMDb: 5.4
98

Oscar and Peter land a career-making opportunity when a Chicago tycoon chooses them to compete for the design of a cultural center. The tycoon mistakenly believes that Oscar is gay…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Dedication

Dedication

Dedication
IMDb: 5.6
95

A modern love story in which a misanthropic, emotionally complex author of a hit children’s book is forced to team with a beautiful illustrator after his best friend and collaborator…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Politician

The Politician

The Politician
TMDb: 8
N/A

Payton has known since childhood that he’s going to be president. First he’ll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape: high school.

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Genre: Comedy
Absence of Malice

Absence of Malice

Absence of Malice
IMDb: 7.8
116

Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his supposed crime was committed but…

Wormwood

Wormwood

Wormwood
TMDb: 5.8
45 min

In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist entangled in a secret Cold War program known as MK-Ultra.

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Condor

Condor

Condor
TMDb: 6.4
53 min

Young CIA analyst Joe Turner has his idealism tested when he learns that the CIA has been using an algorithm he developed to spy on American citizens, leading the organization…

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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Girl Most Likely

Girl Most Likely

Girl Most Likely
IMDb: 5.8
103

A failed New York playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother.

Genre: Comedy
For Love or Money

For Love or Money

For Love or Money
IMDb: 6.1
94

New York concierge Doug Ireland wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island, N.Y., but he needs an investor. With a few weeks left…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Monuments Men

The Monuments Men

The Monuments Men
IMDb: 6.1
118

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and…

Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Fading Gigolo

Fading Gigolo

Fading Gigolo
IMDb: 6.2
90

Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his “manager”, the duo quickly finds…

Genre: Comedy
Moonrise Kingdom

Moonrise Kingdom

Moonrise Kingdom
IMDb: 7.8
94

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret…

Lady in the Water

Lady in the Water

Lady in the Water
IMDb: 5.6
110

Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime…

Show Me a Hero

Show Me a Hero

Show Me a Hero
TMDb: 7.3
60 min

Mayor Nick Wasicsko took office in 1987 during Yonkers’ worst crisis when federal courts ordered public housing to be built in the white, middle class side of town, dividing the…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Bank Shot

Bank Shot

Bank Shot
IMDb: 5.6
83

A bank temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target to break into. On the other hand, why not steal the…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Greedy

Greedy

Greedy
IMDb: 6.3
113

Meet the McTeagues. They’ve come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle’s will… only he’s not dead yet!

Genre: Comedy
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
IMDb: 7.7
135

After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

Ghost World

Ghost World

Ghost World
IMDb: 7.4
111

Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
A Monster in Paris

A Monster in Paris

A Monster in Paris
IMDb: 6.7
90

Paris,1910. Emile, a shy movie projectionist, and Raoul, a colorful inventor, find themselves embarked on the hunt for a monster terrorizing citizens. They join forces with Lucille, the big-hearted star…

Best in Show

Best in Show

Best in Show
IMDb: 7.5
90

The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across America prepare to take part…

Genre: Comedy
The Majestic

The Majestic

The Majestic
IMDb: 6.9
152

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
No Reservations

No Reservations

No Reservations
IMDb: 6.3
104

Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Mexican

The Mexican

The Mexican
IMDb: 6.1
123

Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as “the…

Gosford Park

Gosford Park

Gosford Park
IMDb: 7.3
137

Multiple storylined drama set in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guest and downstairs servants at a party in a country house in England.

Jakob the Liar

Jakob the Liar

Jakob the Liar
IMDb: 6.5
120

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, War
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
IMDb: 4.6
89

A young nurse takes care of elderly author who lives in a haunted house.

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Altered States

Altered States

Altered States
IMDb: 6.9
102

A research scientist (William Hurt) explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and…

2010

2010

2010
IMDb: 6.8
116

This is a sequel to 2001 A Space Odyssey. It is now 2010 and both the Americans and the Russians are racing to get to Jupiter to investigate the black…

Rage

Rage

Rage
IMDb: 4.9
98

A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and secretly posts them on the internet. Result: a bitterly funny…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Howl

Howl

Howl
IMDb: 6.8
84

It’s San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led…

Girlfriends

Girlfriends

Girlfriends
IMDb: 6.9
86

A photographer and her girlfriend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Clockwatchers

Clockwatchers

Clockwatchers
IMDb: 6.4
96

The relationship between four female temps all working for the same credit company is threatened with the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent position one of the…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Isle of Dogs

Isle of Dogs

Isle of Dogs
IMDb: 8.0
101

In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island that’s a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon…

Eva Hesse

Eva Hesse

Eva Hesse
IMDb: 7.4
105

German American artist Eva Hesse (1936 – 1970) created her innovative art in latex and fiberglass in the whirling aesthetic vortex of 1960s New York. Her flowing forms were in…

Genre: Documentary
Natural Selection

Natural Selection

Natural Selection
IMDb: 5.5
88

Residents of an East Texas town react strangely when a serial killer invades their small town world.

Genre: Comedy, Horror
Recount

Recount

Recount
IMDb: 7.4
116

A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. presidential election and the subsequent recounts in Florida.