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Dennis Hopper
Dennis Lee Hopper (born May 17, 1936) is an American actor, filmmaker and artist, with a career that spanned half of the 20th century. Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1955, and appeared in two films...
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Americano
Americano is a 2005 American film. The film stars Joshua Jackson, Leonor Varela, Timm Sharp, Ruthanna Hopper, and Dennis Hopper. It was written and directed by Kevin Noland.
Chris McKinley (Jackson) is a recent college graduate backpacking through...
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Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film set during the Vietnam War. The plot revolves around two US Army special operations officers, one of whom, Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen) of MACV-SOG, is sent into the jungle to assassinate...
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Blue Velvet
Blue Velvet is a 1986 American mystery film, written and directed by David Lynch, that exhibits elements of both film noir and surrealism. The film features Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper and Laura Dern. The title Blue Velvet is...
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Catchfire
Catchfire is a 1990 drama film starring Jodie Foster, Dennis Hopper, and Fred Ward. Several other notable actors have cameos. The film was disowned by its director, Hopper, before release and he is therefore credited under the fictional pseudonym...
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Chattahoochee
Chattahoochee is a 1989-1990 film directed by Mick Jackson. The film starred Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper, Pamela Reed, and Ned Beatty.
The film Chattahoochee tells the story of the fight by a committed war hero, in Florida State Hospital (a mental...
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Easy Rider
Easy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. It tells the story of two bikers (played by Fonda and Hopper) who travel through the...
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Hoosiers
Hoosiers is a 1986 film about a small-town Indiana high school basketball team that wins the state championship.
The story is set during 1951, when all high schools in Indiana, regardless of size, competed in one state championship tournament. It is...
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King of The Mountain
King Of The Mountain is a 1981 film starring Harry Hamlin, Joseph Bottoms, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Richard Cox, Seymour Cassel and Dennis Hopper about a group that race their cars up and down Mulholland Drive for both money and prestige.
The film's...
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Knockaround Guys
Knockaround Guys is a 2002 gangster movie starring Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, John Malkovich and Dennis Hopper
Matty Demaret (Barry Pepper) is the son of a mob boss, but he is used as little more than an errand boy. His relative and friend Chris ...
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Land of the Dead
Land of the Dead (also known as George A. Romero's Land of the Dead) is a horror film by director George A. Romero, the fourth of Romero's six Living Dead movies. It is preceded by Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, and...
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Red Rock West
Red Rock West (1992) is a neo-noir film directed by John Dahl. The film, written by Dahl and his brother Rick, was shot in Montana and Willcox, Arizona. The film was well received at the prestigious Toronto Film Festival, but deemed a cable and...
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Speed
Speed is a 1994 American action/thriller film directed by Jan de Bont, and set in Los Angeles. It focuses on an LAPD officer, Police Officer III Jack Traven, who tries to arrest an bomber/extortionist. After the bomber escapes, he sets up a bomb on...
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Der Amerikanische Freund
The American Friend (German: Der Amerikanische Freund) is a 1977 film by Wim Wenders, loosely adapted from the novel Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith. The film is of the neo-noir genre, and features Dennis Hopper as career criminal Tom Ripley and...
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The Last Movie
The Last Movie is a 1971 drama film from Universal Pictures. It was written and directed by Dennis Hopper, who also played a horse wrangler named after the state of Kansas. It also starred Peter Fonda, Henry Jaglom and Michelle Phillips. Production...
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (also known as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 & TCM 2) is a 1986 big-budget horror sequel to the 1974 horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The film stars Dennis Hopper as "Lefty", Bill Johnson as "Leatherface",...
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Waterworld
Waterworld is a 1995 post-apocalyptic science fiction film. The film was directed by Kevin Reynolds, co-written by Peter Rader and David Twohy based on Rader's original 1986 screenplay and stars Kevin Costner, who also produced it. It was...
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Basquiat
Basquiat is a 1996 biopic/drama film directed by Julian Schnabel which is based on the life of American postmodernist/neo expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Basquiat, born in Brooklyn, used his graffiti roots as a foundation to create...
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The Indian Runner
The Indian Runner is a 1991 drama film written and directed by Sean Penn. It is based on Bruce Springsteen's song, "Highway Patrolman".
The story, set in 1960s Nebraska, involves two very different brothers: Joe (David Morse) a small town deputy...
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Held for Ransom
Held for Ransom is a 2000 direct-to-video film, starring Dennis Hopper, Zachary Ty Bryan, Kam Heskin, Tsianina Joelson, Jordan Brower, and Randy Spelling with Paul Dillon, Morgan Fairchild, John Getz, Timothy Bottoms, Debi Mazar, and Joan Van Ark....
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House of 9
House of 9 is a 2005 horror film directed by Steven R. Monroe and starring Dennis Hopper. The film was first released in France at the Cannes Film Festival on 20 May 2004, followed by a limited release in the United States.
The film commences when...
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Flesh Color
Flesh Color (Couleur Chair) by François Weyergans (Prix Goncourt 2005). Music by Friswa. Experimental film 35 mm. 116'. 1978.
Dennis Hopper, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Bianca Jagger, Jorge Donn, Laurent Terzieff, Anne Wiazemsky, Roger Blin, Lou Castel...
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The Night We Called It a Day
The Night We Called It a Day (2003) is an Australian film directed by Peter Clifton starring Dennis Hopper, Melanie Griffith, Portia de Rossi, Joel Edgerton, Rose Byrne, and David Hemmings. It is based on the true events surrounding one of several...
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The Venice Project
The Venice Project is a 1999 drama film directed by Robert Dornhelm. It stars Lauren Bacall and Dennis Hopper, and included a cameo appearance from Steve Martin.
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Queen of Blood
Queen of Blood is a 1966 horror/science fiction film released by American International Pictures.
After aliens contact Earth via radio to inform humans of an impending visit, their ambassador spaceship crashes on Mars. Astronaut rescuers recover...
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The Other Side of the Wind
The Other Side of the Wind is an unfinished film directed by Orson Welles and starring John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich, Dennis Hopper and Oja Kodar. The film features Huston as an aging Hollywood director modeled on Ernest Hemingway, who is trying to...
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The Osterman Weekend
The Osterman Weekend is a 1983 suspense thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah, based on the novel of the same name by Robert Ludlum. The film stars Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Burt Lancaster, Dennis Hopper, Meg Foster and Craig T. Nelson. It was...
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Night Tide
Night Tide is a 1961 fantasy film, written and directed by Curtis Harrington and starring Dennis Hopper. It premiered in 1961, but was held up from general release until 1963.
Sailor Johnny Drake (Dennis Hopper) and sideshow performer Mora (Linda...
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Black Widow
Black Widow is a 1987 Neo-noir film starring Debra Winger, Theresa Russell, Sami Frey, and Dennis Hopper, about two women: one who murders wealthy men whom she marries for their money, and the other an agent with the Department of Justice who grows...
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Mem-o-re
Memory is a 2006 American film that follows a medical researcher who receives mysterious visions after coming into contact with a mysterious powder found on a half-dead man.
It was directed by Bennett Davlin who also wrote the novel from which the...
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EdTV
EDtv is a comedy film directed by Ron Howard released in 1999. An adaptation of the French Canadian movie Louis 19, le roi des ondes (1994), it stars Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Elfman, Woody Harrelson, Ellen DeGeneres, Martin Landau, Rob Reiner,...
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Straight Shooter
Straight Shooter is a 1999 German movie about an ex-member of the French Foreign Legion who makes the German government responsible for the death of his family and goes on a killing spree to stop the service of an atomic plant.
The police are...
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Space Truckers
Space Truckers, written and directed by Stuart Gordon, is a comedy/sci-fi movie released in the spring of 1996 was filmed at Ardmore Studios, County Wicklow, Ireland.
John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Bad...
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Human Highway
Human Highway is a 1982 comedy film starring and co-directed by Neil Young under his pseudonym Bernard Shakey. Dean Stockwell co-directed the film and acted along with Russ Tamblyn, Dennis Hopper, and the post-punk and new wave band Devo. Included...
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Carried Away
Carried Away (also known as Acts of Love) is a 1996 English language film directed by Brazilian Bruno Barreto. It is based on the novel Farmer by Jim Harrison.
The film stars Dennis Hopper, Amy Irving (Barreto's then wife), Gary Busey, and Amy...
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Firestarter 2: Rekindled
Firestarter 2: Rekindled (also known simply as Firestarter: Rekindled) is a 2002 television miniseries and the sequel to the film adaptation of the Stephen King novel Firestarter. It stars Marguerite Moreau, Danny Nucci, Dennis Hopper and Malcolm...
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Tracks
Tracks is a 1976 American drama film written and directed by Henry Jaglom. The film stars Dennis Hopper, Taryn Power and Dean Stockwell. The story involves a returned Vietnam veteran escorting a fellow soldier's coffin across the United States for...
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers's Apocalypse
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) is an award-winning documentary about the making of the film Apocalypse Now.
The title is derived from the source material for Apocalypse Now, the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness. Using...
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The Trip
The Trip (1967) is a low-budget cult film released by American International Pictures, directed by Roger Corman, and shot on location in and around Los Angeles, including on top of Kirkwood in Laurel Canyon, Hollywood Hills, and near Big Sur,...
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Apocalypse Now Redux
Apocalypse Now Redux is an extended, definitive version of the 1979 epic war film Apocalypse Now. Unlike other new cuts of the film, Redux is usually considered by fans and critics, as well as director Coppola, as a completely new movie altogether....
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True Romance
True Romance (1993) is an American romantic crime film written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Tony Scott, director of Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop II. It stars Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette with an ensemble cast.
The title and plot...
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Out of the Blue
Out of the Blue is a 1980 film featuring and directed by Dennis Hopper. The film was written and produced by Gary Jules Jouvenat. It competed for the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.
Film Critic Jonathan Rosenbaum considers it one of the...
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Mad Dog Morgan
Mad Dog Morgan is a 1976 Australian bushranger film directed by Philippe Mora and starring Dennis Hopper. It is based upon the life of Dan Morgan. The film used various locations where Dan Morgan had been active, in the eastern Riverina, including...
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Elegy
Elegy is a 2008 drama directed by Spanish director Isabel Coixet and based on a Philip Roth novel, The Dying Animal. The film is set in New York City, but was filmed in Vancouver.
David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) is a cultural critic and professor....
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Swing Vote
Swing Vote is a 2008 dramedy film about an entire U.S. presidential election determined by the vote of one man. It was directed by Joshua Michael Stern and starred Kevin Costner, Paula Patton, Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane, Stanley...
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Flashback
Flashback is a 1990 film starring Dennis Hopper, Kiefer Sutherland and Carol Kane, written by David Loughery and directed by Franco Amurri. The film also features a cameo by Dan Simon. The film received an R rating by the MPAA.
Hopper plays Huey...
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My Science Project
My Science Project is a 1985 comedy science fiction film directed by Jonathan R. Betuel.
Tagline: The funniest sci-fi movie this summer.
We must not destroy the world.
Gearhead Michael and bookworm Ellie break into a military junkyard to find a...
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Rumble Fish
Rumble Fish is a 1983 film directed, produced and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola. It is based on the novel Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton, who also co-wrote the screenplay. The film centers on the relationship between the Motorcycle Boy (Mickey...
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Meet the Deedles
Meet the Deedles is a 1998 American live-action Disney comedy film directed by Steve Boyum and starring Paul Walker and Steve Van Wormer. It was the first theatrically-released film to be produced by DiC Entertainment since 1986 (after Heathcliff:...
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The Pick-up Artist
The Pick-up Artist is a 1987 American film written and directed by James Toback. This romantic comedy starred Molly Ringwald and Robert Downey Jr. It was rated PG-13 by the MPAA.
Randy Jensen (Ringwald) is a smart, independent tour guide who beats...
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Boiling Point
Boiling Point is a 1993 action-thriller film written and directed by James B. Harris, and starring Wesley Snipes and Dennis Hopper.
This film opens with police officer Jimmy Mercer (Wesley Snipes) and his partner (Dan Hedaya) doing some undercover...
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Sleepwalking
Nick Stahl, AnnaSophia Robb, and Charlize Theron (who also produces the film), star in Sleepwalking, a drama that follows the bonding of a 30-year-old man and his 12-year-old niece after she is abandoned by her mother. The girl is taken in by the...
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10th & Wolf
10th & Wolf is a 2006 film about the mafia directed by Robert Moresco. It is based on a true story of a mob war in South Philadelphia. The film stars James Marsden, Giovanni Ribisi and Brad Renfro. There are also appearances by Dennis Hopper, Val...
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Ticker
Ticker is a 2001 action film, directed by Albert Pyun and starring Steven Seagal, Tom Sizemore, Nas and Dennis Hopper.
The movie begins with a SWAT team going into the house of a United States Senator. Someone is holding the Senator hostage. The...
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Welcome to Hollywood
Welcome to Hollywood is a mockumentary about a young man trying to make it in Hollywood as an actor. Tony Markes is the young man trying to pursue the means to become an actor. Various attempts to get him noticed and in roles in film and television...
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Memory
Memory (also billed as mem-(o)-re and Memore) is a 2006 American techno-thriller film written by Bennett Joshua Davlin, and starring Billy Zane, Tricia Helfer and Terry Chen. It is about a medical researcher who receives mysterious visions after...
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Dead On: The Life and Cinema of George A. Romero
Dead On: The Life and Cinema of George A. Romero is a 2008 documentary film directed by filmmaker Rusty Nails. The film is about the life and career of horror film director George A. Romero. Clips from his films are combined with interviews with...
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Search and Destroy
Search and Destroy is a 1995 American film based on a stageplay by Howard Korner. It was directed by David Salle. The film stars Dennis Hopper, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, Ethan Hawke, Illeana Douglas, Rosanna Arquette, Robert Knepper, and...
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Hell Ride
Hell Ride is a 2008 American feature film from Larry Bishop released under the "Quentin Tarantino Presents" banner.
Larry Bishop stars as biker Pistolero, (named after the original title for Robert Rodriguez’s Desperado) who along with The Gent ...
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Straight to Hell
Straight to Hell is a 1987 action-comedy film directed by Alex Cox, featuring Sy Richardson, The Clash frontman Joe Strummer (after whose song the film is named), Courtney Love, Dick Rude, Dennis Hopper, Grace Jones, Elvis Costello, Xander Berkeley,...
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The Last Ride
This article is about the 2004 film. For the unrelated western novel, see The Last Ride.
The Last Ride is an American TV action drama directed by Guy Norman Bee and starring Dennis Hopper, Will Patton, Nadine Velazquez and Fred Ward. The story for...
