Sophia Takal
Director · b. 1986 · Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Sophia Takal is an American actress, writer and director, perhaps best known for her work in independent features such as All the Light in the Sky, Supporting Characters and Gabi on the Roof in July. Filmmaker magazine named Takal one of the "25 New Faces of Film" in 2011. She directed and co-wrote the 2019 remake of the 1974 horror film Black Christmas. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sophia Takal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie6.1ThrillerHorrorWhen a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire one rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they had bargained for.
V/H/S
2012 · 1.8K votes
Movie5.8DramaA boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.
God's Pocket
2014 · 224 votes
Movie4.6ComedyAdventureChronicling the life of Lay'n Pipe, a 47 foot TopGun Cigarette speedboat, from its conception through the end of human civilization. It's not just a speedboat ride, it's a Miami adventure.
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
2020 · 7 votes
Movie5.4ComedyDramaIn a desperate search to create a follow-up to Joe Swanberg's 2011 film Uncle Kent, Kent Osborne travels to a comic book convention in San Diego where he loses his mind and confronts the end of the world.
Uncle Kent 2
2016 · 11 votes
Movie5.0DramaAn insomniac actress is facing the waning days of her career, when her niece pays a visit to her Malibu house.
All the Light in the Sky
2013 · 21 votes
Movie5.1ComedyMysteryWhen their elderly neighbor suddenly drops dead, a young Brooklyn couple investigates signs of foul play.
Wild Canaries
2014 · 12 votes
Movie5.2ComedyAspiring but less than ambitious photographer Nate clumsily navigates the New York City art world in a post-grad haze, waiting for his breakthrough project to fall into his lap. During a drug-fueled wormhole through the annals of YouTube, Nate discovers his next subjects when an arbitrary click lands him on a crude music video by the Young Torture Killaz—an Insane Clown Posse knock-off group of jaded Delaware teens with a lot to scream about—and the inspiration (and exploitation) flows
Hellaware
2013 · 4 votes
Movie7.0DramaA distressed young woman leaves the city for the weekend with the hopes of clearing her head, but meets a mysterious hitchhiker who only confuses things more. The farther she goes to escape the more she finds herself trapped.
Weekend Away
2013 · 1 votes
Movie5.4ComedyDramaJenn and Matt are best friends from college who are now in their thirties. Single by choice, Jenn spends her days teaching hot yoga and running errands for her boss. Matt suffers from comic-book writer's block and can't get over his ex-boyfriend. They decide to fulfill a promise to have a child together... the old fashioned way. Can they navigate the serious and unexpected snags they hit as they attempt to get their careers and dating lives back on track in preparation for parenthood?
Gayby
2012 · 36 votes
Movie6.6AnimationComedyIn a fateful bumper car collision, Jake and Ella meet and become the most loving couple in the long history of romance. But when a scheming "other" woman drives a wedge of jealousy into their perfect courtship, insecurity and hatred spell out an untimely fate. With only the help of a disgraced magician and his forbidden "soul machine", Ella takes the form of Jake's numerous lovers, desperately fighting through the malfunction and deceit as they try to reclaim their destiny.
Cheatin'
2014 · 35 votes
Movie2.9DramaFamilySet on Halloween, a young astronomer who has unexpectedly lost her job, is poised to make perhaps the first reckless decision of her life.
Molly's Theory of Relativity
2013 · 8 votes
Movie5.0ComedyDramaAn ambitious painter on the verge of a big break confronts his moral decay when his idealist, hell-raising younger sister comes to stay with him in New York City for the summer.
Gabi on the Roof in July
2010 · 15 votes
Movie4.2RomanceDramaGeorge and Lacy walk through the streets of Brooklyn and revisit their memories.
George and the Vacuum
2015 · 4 votes
Movie5.8ComedyDramaTwo New York film editors balance their personal relationships while reworking a movie in crisis.
Supporting Characters
2013 · 26 votes
Movie4.0ThrillerDramaBilly is a fetish photographer whose models begin to turn up dead. Michael, a melancholic cop, is tasked with investigating him.
24 Exposures
2013 · 38 votes
- MovieDrama
Twentysomething J. and two of his close friends are in the process of realizing their utopian dream: turning an abandoned cathedral into a grant-powered, environmentally sustainable art space. Newcomers to the post-industrial frontier where they found this chapel, they have been carried here by progressive beliefs that have since left them in a muddled quandary to question the validity of their presence. But there is work to do every day. Work to realize the dream they might still have.
Movie5.1DramaA New Yorker moves to the country with her boyfriend, where her new friendship causes a problem as her partner also takes an interest in the woman.
Green
2011 · 15 votes
Movie5.2DramaA relationship drama set amid a winter van trip from New York to New Orleans. A loose continuation of the 2010 film.
Open Five 2
2012 · 6 votes
- MovieDramaComedy
A woman walks into a video store and makes a sad, strange request.
Movie4.9DramaA mysterious visitor spends the night at an apartment belonging to a young engaged couple and their friend. Over the course of the night and the following day he sleeps with all three roommates and then disappears, leading to conversations about God, life and filmmaking.
The Zone
2011 · 21 votes
Movie5.8ComedyDramaJosh (Zach Weintraub) is a young American who has traveled to Buenos Aires to find subjects for a documentary series he has been commissioned to produce. While there, he seems also to be hoping to use the time to regroup—although regroup from what is unclear. The change of venue is not without its own set of problems, however. Josh finds it difficult to get his footing in Buenos Aires. Subjects aren’t coming easy, and he is having trouble connecting socially. He spends long stretches of time isolated in his rented room, struggling to move forward with his work and make social in-roads. Enter Anna (Sophia Takal), a young woman renting a room with an adjoining wall to Josh. After discovering each other through this shared wall, a friendship quickly blossoms which may lead to something more. What remains uncertain is if Anna’s presence will help pull Josh out of his doldrums.
The International Sign for Choking
2012 · 4 votes
Movie5.0MysteryWhen her sister goes missing, a young woman sets out on a quest through Brooklyn to find her, enlisting the help of a motley crew of New York weirdos.
Devil Town
2015 · 4 votes
- MovieComedyScience Fiction
Two young women discover a way to view parallel universe versions of themselves via the internet, and rapidly become obsessed with watching the alternate paths that their lives might have taken.