Michael Emil
Actor · London, England
Movies17
Movie6.8DocumentaryHailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "world's worst director," Henry Jaglom obsessively confuses and abuses the line between life and art. Featuring scores of interviews (including Orson Welles, Dennis Hopper, Milos Forman and Peter Bogdanovich) and rare behind-the-scenes footage, this hilarious documentary explores the fascinating question of Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997 · 6 votes
Movie6.4DramaComedyFour 1950s icons meet in the same hotel room, and two of them discover more in common between them than they ever anticipated.
Insignificance
1985 · 70 votes
Movie5.8ComedyDramaHelena Mora, the head of an eccentric theatrical family, has decided to sell her large estate in the Hamptons because of her recent money troubles. Before she completes the sale, she wants to have one last gathering of family and friends, with dramatic performances. Bringing everyone together, though, creates rivalries and tension, especially for Oona, a temperamental but successful movie actress who seeks the approval of her creative peers.
Last Summer in the Hamptons
1995 · 5 votes
Movie2.6ComedyDramaAn electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming actress Maggie Chase (Tanna Frederick) from the two things she craves the most: real fame and true love. With more "Google points" than her Iowa hometown, but far less than Angelina Jolie, Maggie is desperate to claw her way off the B-list of action/adventure pictures and into major movie stardom.
Queen of the Lot
2010 · 6 votes
Movie5.9ComedyRomanceZee is walking up and down Manhattan streets, talking to herself and to the husband who has just left her. At a sidewalk café she runs into Eli, and a very unlikely, funny and touching relationship develops between two lost souls in the big city.
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
1983 · 7 votes
Movie4.8ComedyA man returns to his sublet apartment to find the previous tenants, three offbeat young women, still in residence, under the mistaken belief that they have the apartment until the end of New Year's Day.
New Year's Day
1990 · 11 votes
Movie5.6DramaA soldier returns from Vietnam on special assignment, accompanying the body of his friend by train to California for burial. During the trip, he falls in love with a gentle college student. But their relationship is shattered by his flashbacks to combat.
Tracks
1976 · 14 votes
Movie4.5ComedyAfter her husband loses his job, Marianne moves from Beverly Hills to a nightmare New York City. She hires ditzy psychic Reva to redecorate her apartment, and they end up being chased by a crazed killer.
In the Spirit
1990 · 4 votes
Movie4.4DramaRomanceA middle-aged couple, on the verge of proceeding with a divorce, find themselves questioning their decision to separate when fellow friends and neighbors, oblivious to their marital troubles, assemble at their house for a 4th of July Weekend party.
Always … But Not Forever
1985 · 5 votes
Movie10.0ComedyClaire Makes It Big, Jeremy Workman's award- winning short comedy, follows the travails of a talented overweight actress and her difficulties landing a decent movie role. A sharply written and briskly directed satire of the acting and filmmaking professions that then turns into a hilarious wish-fulfillment fantasy, it also features a lovely lead performance by Mara Hobel (whom Joan Crawford-heads may recognize as the child Christina Crawford in Mommie Dearest) and funny supporting turns from more recognizable folks like Clancy Brown, Paige Turco and Peter Bogdanovich, along with a voice cameo from the late Don LaFontaine.
Claire Makes It Big
1999 · 1 votes
Movie3.0The 'M' Word" explores the themes of "menopause, men and menses".
The M Word
2014 · 3 votes
Movie5.5ComedyA Hollywood film director assembles a group of friends and strangers for a social gathering on Valentines Day in a deserted movie theater where he interviews each one on their opinions on love and loneliness.
Someone to Love
1987 · 11 votes
Movie2.0DramaStinging from the latest of several romantic break-ups, Pandora Isaacs (Tanna Frederick) retreats to the safety of her parents’ ramshackle upstate country house — just 45 minutes from Broadway— where her non-theatrical sister (Julie Davis) and her sister's fiance, a real- estate executive, (Judd Nelson) are also arriving for the weekend and the family's yearly Passover Seder. Family secrets, sibling rivalries, theatrical hysterics and the possibility of true love as rare as a blue bullfrog all emerge.
Just 45 Minutes from Broadway
2012 · 1 votes
Movie5.5DramaCrimeA private eye hired to kill a man's wife warns her instead and then finds both are impostors.
Deadly Illusion
1987 · 9 votes
Movie4.7ComedyAdventureTwo teens spot a notorious criminal who is supposed to be dead.
Adventures in Spying
1992 · 3 votes
Movie4.8CrimeComedyTwo small-time thieves come together in a quest to make their childhood dreams come true.
Sitting Ducks
1980 · 9 votes
- Movie
A 50-minute, semi-experimental short film directed by Henry Jaglom in which an off-screen Jaglom relentlessly badgers and psychoanalyzes his real-life older brother, actor Michael Emil, discussing the intimate details and history of his sex life starting from childhood