Pink Flamingos (1972)
Pink Flamingos (1972) Sleaze queen Divine lives in a caravan with her mad hippie son Crackers and her 250-pound mother Mama Edie, trying to rest quietly on their laurels as 'the filthiest people alive'. But competition is brewing in the form of Connie and Raymond Marble, who sell heroin to schoolchi
Seed of Chucky (2004)
Chuck (Brad Dourif) and Tiff (Jennifer Tilly) return, resurrected by their son (Billy Boyd), and hit Hollywood in the fifth film of the CHILD'S PLAY series.
Cry-Baby (1990)
In 1950s Baltimore, a bad-boy with a heart of gold wins the love of a good-girl, whose boyfriend sets out for revenge.
A Dirty Shame (2004)
A Dirty Shame (2004) Middle-aged, sexually repressed Sylvia Stickles is the subject of this John Water's film, set in North Baltimore. She refuses to have sex with her husband, Vaughn Stickles, and keeps her overly-endowed daughter, Caprice, locked in her room, while she serves home detention for mo
CryBaby (1990)
CryBaby (1990) Allison is a "square" good girl who has decided she wants to be bad and falls hard for Cry-Baby Walker, a Greaser (or "Drape" in John Waters parlance). Spoofing Elvis movies and Juvenile Delinquency scare films of the '50s, this movie follows the adventures of Cry-Baby who, though he
Passion Flower (1986)
Passion Flower (1986) The movers and shakers in Singapore get involved in behind-the-scenes political and business activities, romantic entanglements, and murder. Nicol Williamson plays the wealthiest man in Southeast Asia. Barbara Hershey is his married antagonistic daughter who starts an affair wi
Serial Mom (1994)
Serial Mom (1994) A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes slights against her family very personally, and it turns out she is indeed the one harassing the neighbor. As other slights befall her bel
Hairspray (1988)
Hairspray (1988) 'Pleasantly Plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Collins Dance Show. Now a teen hero, she starts using her fame to speak out for the causes she believes in, most of all integration. In doing so, she earns the wrath of the show's former
Desperate Living (1977)
Desperate Living (1977) A rich housewife murders her husband with the help of her overweight maid, and the two go on the run, ending up in Mortville, a town providing refuge for criminals. They shack up with a lesbian ex-wrestler and her murderess lover, before running into the tyrannical Queen Carl
Female Trouble (1974)
Female Trouble (1974) The life and times of Dawn Davenport, showing her progress from loving schoolgirl to crazed mass murderer - all of which stems from her parents' refusal to buy her cha-cha heels for Christmas. She runs away from home, is raped, becomes a single mother, criminal and glamorous mo
Polyester (1981)
Polyester (1981) Francine Fishpaw is an upper middle class suburban housewife in Baltimore. Unfortunately for this "good Christian woman", the money to support her lifestyle comes from her husband's porno theater, the neighbors are protesting, her son is the notorious "Baltimore Stomper", her daught
Return To Nims Island 2013
Return to Nim's Island to see how things are going with Nim and her Father. One day they get a message that some people will be buying the island to build an attraction there, but Nim will ...
Grievous Bodily Harm (1988)
Grievous Bodily Harm (1988) A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.
End Play (1976)
When a hitchhiker is picked up and murdered by an unseen assailant, two brothers both become suspects, all the while increasing their tensions between them as they both pursue their half cousin, Margaret
Multiple Maniacs (1970)
Multiple Maniacs (1970) The travelling sideshow 'Lady Divine's Cavalcade of Perversions' is actually a front for a group of psychotic kidnappers, with Lady Divine herself the most vicious and depraved of all - but her life changes after she gets raped by a fifteen-foot lobster...
Summerfield (1977)
Summerfield (1977) A teacher discovers one of his students has a rare blood disease, and is drawn into a mystery that culminates in a thrilling climax.
Pecker (1998)
Pecker (1998) A Baltimore sandwich shop employee becomes an overnight sensation when a photographer's photos he's taken of his weird family become the latest rage in the art world.
Breaker Morant (1980)
Breaker Morant (1980) During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progr
Cecil B. Demented (2000)
Cecil B. Demented (2000) In Baltimore, guerrilla filmmaker Cecil B. Demented leads a band of cinema revolutionaries who kidnap Honey Whitlock, a bitchy and aging movie star of big-budget froth. Cecil wants her in his movie, a screed against Hollywood they film during blitzkrieg attacks on a multiple
This Filthy World (2006)
This Filthy World 2006 At the Harry DeJour Playhouse in New York in the mid 2000s, John Waters emerges from a confessional onto a stage littered with trash He tells stories After a few about his childhood and early influences, he roughly follows the chronology of his career as a film director, relat
Little Richard I Am Everything (2023)
Little Richard I Am Everything 2023 The one of a kind rocknroll icon who shaped the world of music
Homer and Eddie (1989)
Homer and Eddie (1989) A mentally disabled man gets help from a sociopath when he tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution (2017)
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution (2017) A documentary on Queercore, the cultural and social movement that began as an offshoot of punk and was distinguished by its discontent with society's disapproval of the gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgender communities.
Aggie (2020)
Aggie 2020 An exploration of the nexus of art, race and justice through the story of art collector Agnes Gund who sold Roy Lichtensteins painting Masterpiece in 2017 for 165 million to start the Art for Justice Fund to end mass incarceration
The Rooster (2023)
The Rooster 2023 When the body of his oldest friend is found buried in a shallow grave, Dan, a small town cop, seeks answers from a volatile Hermit who may have been the last person to see his friend alive
LynchOz (2022)
LynchOz 2022 Victor Flemings film The Wizard of Oz 1939 is one of David Lynchs most enduring obsessions This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through line in Lynchs work
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (2012)
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab 2012 Based on the best selling novel by Fergus Hume Melbourne, 1886 Two gentlemen climb into a hansom cab late one night One man climbs out, the other travels on to St Kilda On arrival, the driver finds the second man dead The murder sends shock waves through the young ci