
Joe Franklin
Actor · 1926 – 2015 · The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Movies21
Movie7.5ComedyFantasyAfter losing their university jobs, three parapsychologists start a ghost-catching business in New York City and uncover a supernatural threat that could destroy the world.
Ghostbusters
1984 · 10K votes
Movie5.9ComedyDocumentaryOne hundred superstar comedians tell the same very, VERY dirty, filthy joke--one shared privately by comics since Vaudeville.
The Aristocrats
2005 · 184 votes
Movie7.1ComedyA hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless incompetent entertainers, including a one-legged tap dancer, and one slightly talented one: washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova, whose career is on the rebound.
Broadway Danny Rose
1984 · 502 votes
Movie6.9ComedyAfter winning $6.2 million in the 1976 New York State Lottery, he is arrested for throwing rocks at a church. He then tells his story at the police station.
29th Street
1991 · 44 votes
Movie6.0ComedyHorrorA low-budget film crew working in New York City find themselves being preyed upon by a sexually conflicted serial killer.
Terror Firmer
1999 · 113 votes
Movie4.7HorrorTwo sniveling high school dropouts plot to rob the school janitor and accidentally release toxic chemicals into the school's water supply. The swimming team are the first ones to turn into green-faced flesh-eating zombies, and they promptly go after the rest of the present school populace: two horror movie nerds, the members of a metal band and the world's worst basketball team.
Ghoul School
1990 · 14 votes
Movie6.2ComedyTracey Ullman and her wacky cast of characters take a bite out of the Big Apple.
Tracey Ullman Takes on New York
1993 · 3 votes
Movie8.4DocumentaryMusicJohn Flansburgh & John Linnell met in the 1970s as junior high students in Lincoln, Massachusetts. A decade later, their band—They Might Be Giants—would stand at the forefront of a burgeoning East Village NYC performance art scene as well as the college music revolution of the late 1980s. Filmed in 2001, ‘Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)’ is the acclaimed true story, tracing their independent and sometimes hilarious path through two decades in the pop music wilderness. From their legendary Dial-a-Song answering machine, to their Grammy Award-winning theme song for ‘Malcolm in the Middle’, fans and friends gather to tell the oral history of Brooklyn's finest alternative rock band.
Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)
2003 · 10 votes
Movie5.4DocumentaryThe outrageous story of 1970s porn icon Jack Wrangler, and how he rose to the top of the gay, and then straight, adult film industry.
Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon
2008 · 18 votes
Movie6.5ComedyScience FictionPenn Jillette and Teller are called upon to display their unique brand of humor to save civilization from strange extraterrestrial beings who have invaded Earth and who, disgruntled and bored with the mundane nature of human life, threaten to blow up the planet unless someone gives them a good reason not to.
Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
1987 · 6 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryTV MovieThe story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects virtually disappeared from theaters.
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
2002 · 1 votes
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The newest beautifully grimy SOV vision from Carl J Sukenick
Toxic Soldiers
2016
Movie3.0HorrorMysteryA writer buys a typewriter which brings out his deepest and darkest desires.
Black Ribbon
2007 · 9 votes
MovieHorrorScience FictionAn SOV vision from Prolific filmmaker Carl J. Sukenick featuring mutants, throwing stars and gushing headwounds.
Killer Video
2017
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Space Spawns
2002 · 1 votes
Movie4.1ComedyThis mockumentary about fictional movie studio Adequate Pictures boasts an interesting cast. Tony Randall hosts, and James CoCo (practically on his deathbed) stars as head of the studio. Includes parodies of everything from silent comedies to porn, including an ultra violent "three stooges" style comedy team who put a new spin on the eye poking gag.
That's Adequate
1989 · 7 votes
Movie4.3ComedyDramaPaul Colson is a New York cabdriver and struggling actor. When he learns that he has about three days left to live due to a rare blood disorder, he goes through all five stages of loss and grief in a darkly comedic way.
Bum Rap
1988 · 4 votes
MovieActionHorrorAliens battle terrorist in a sorority house filled with mutants, monsters and secret agents. Who will survive this action packed inter-dimensional adventure?
Movie9.0ComedyA 30 minute infomercial that originally aired on Comedy Central in 1993. The idea was that by purchasing Troma Inc. movie products you could better yourself as a person.
The Troma System
1993 · 1 votes
Movie7.5ComedyA day in the life of a neurotic newsstand owner.
Norman's Corner
1988 · 2 votes
Movie10.0Talk show legend Joe Franklin discovers an abandoned baby on his doorstep.
Jazzy for Joe
2014 · 1 votes
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TV7.8AnimationComedyA cartoon superhero interacts with live guests via his television set in this parody talk show based on 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Space Ghost.
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
1994 · 120 votes