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101. To Die For (1995)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A beautiful but naïve aspiring television personality films a documentary on teenagers with a darker ulterior motive.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck
Votes: 53,235 | Gross: $21.28M
102. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
R | 104 min | Comedy
The comic "Bluntman and Chronic" is based on real-life stoners Jay and Silent Bob, so when they get no profit from a big-screen adaptation, they set out to wreck the movie.
Director: Kevin Smith | Stars: Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Amy Noble, Harley Quinn Smith
Votes: 161,224 | Gross: $30.09M
103. I'm Not There (2007)
R | 135 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician's life and work.
Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw
Votes: 61,252 | Gross: $4.02M
104. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)
R | 114 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, Jack Black
Votes: 30,756 | Gross: $1.44M
105. 2:37 (2006)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama
At 2:37, someone commits suicide in the school lavatory. The day is told up to that point from the viewpoint of six different students.
Director: Murali K. Thalluri | Stars: Teresa Palmer, Frank Sweet, Sam Harris, Charles Baird
Votes: 7,369
106. To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feelings about Cinema.
Directors: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Kaige Chen, Michael Cimino, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Manoel de Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Aki Kaurismäki, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrey Konchalovskiy, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, David Lynch, Tsai Ming-liang, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raúl Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Gus Van Sant, Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Kar-Wai Wong, Yimou Zhang | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Pegah Ahangarani, Anouk Aimée, Leonid Alexeenko
Votes: 5,468
107. Bret Easton Ellis Podcast (2013 Podcast Series)
Talk-Show
Controversial best-selling author and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis delivers a weekly glimpse into one of popular culture's most fascinating minds.
Stars: Bret Easton Ellis, Adam Thompson, Sam Wasson, Marilyn Manson
Votes: 13
108. Orientations: Chris Doyle - Stirred But Not Shaken (2001)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, Biography
The life and work of Chris Doyle, the acclaimed Australian cinematographer who found regular work as the collaborator of maverick Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-Wai.
Director: Rick Farquharson | Stars: Christopher Doyle, Matt Dillon, Paul Fonoroff, Curtis Hanson
Votes: 47
109. Bergmans video (2012)
44 min | Documentary
Directors such as Martin Scorsese and Wes Anderson discuss Ingmar Bergman and his films.
Stars: Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Alexander Payne, Ridley Scott
Votes: 81
110.
HBO First Look (1992– )
Episode:
Finding Forrester
(2000)
Documentary, Short
Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Rob Brown, Sean Connery, Anna Paquin
Votes: 18
111.
Feud (2017–2024)
Episode:
Hats, Gloves and Effete Homosexuals
(2024)
TV-MA | 54 min | Biography, Drama
In New York, it's the end of an era. In California, Truman tries to usher in a new era with a hunky beau.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Calista Flockhart
Votes: 396
112. Restless (I) (2011)
PG-13 | 91 min | Drama, Romance
The story of a terminally ill teenage girl who falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals and their encounters with the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Henry Hopper, Ryô Kase, Schuyler Fisk
Votes: 18,416 | Gross: $0.16M
113. Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open (2023 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, Biography
Over the years, Oscar winner Nicole Kidman, became both a pop culture icon and a complex dramatic actress. Her career is a unique body of work that mirrors her personal life, which is more political than it might seem.
Director: Patrick Boudet | Stars: Jane Campion, Nicole Kidman, Gus Van Sant
Votes: 78
114. Hollywood's Best Film Directors (2009–2018)
26 min | Biography
Looks at Hollywood's best or luckiest directors.
Stars: Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, William Friedkin, Chris Columbus
Votes: 132
115. Wanderlust (2006 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary, History
A documentary on road movies and their effect on American culture.
Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | Stars: Allison Anders, Jeanine Basinger, Robert Benton, Karen Black
Votes: 132
116. The Advocate for Fagdom (2011)
Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary
The Advocate for Fagdom unites the puzzle pieces one by one. Testimonies are combined with rare archive images. Art galeries present movie extracts that are succeeded by images shot on ... See full summary »
Director: Angélique Bosio | Stars: Bruce La Bruce, Glenn Belverio, Bruce Benderson, Jürgen Brüning
Votes: 112
117. Best of Chris Isaak (2006 Video)
63 min | Music
Chris Isaak begins his third decade as one of the most distinctive recording artists- and the epitome of modern cool-with his first career-spanning retrospective. Best of Chris Isaak CD ... See full synopsis »
Directors: Ted Bafaloukos, Geoffrey Barish, Jonathan K. Bendis, Larry Clark, Chris Isaak, Mary Lambert, Mark Lebon, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Jonas Pate, Josh Pate, Nicola Pecorini, Bill Pope, Herb Ritts, Joe Thomas, Gus Van Sant, Bruce Weber | Stars: Chris Isaak, Laetitia Casta, Helena Christensen, Denise Crosby
Votes: 43
118. The Discipline of D.E. (1982)
9 min | Comedy, Short
Gus Van Sant's early short film about "The Discipline of D.E.," which is an extremely efficient way of doing things.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Frank Birney, David Worden, Ken Shapiro, Tom Sherohman
Votes: 736
119. Guns on the Clackamas: A Documentary (1995)
Comedy
Director: Bill Plympton | Stars: Keith Scales, Micheal Thomas Parks, Danny Bruno, William C. Tate
Votes: 50
120. Ken Death Gets Out of Jail (1988)
3 min | Comedy, Short
Youth tells about his jail experience.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Star: Kenneth Murray Mieske
Votes: 28
121. Elton John: The Last Song (1992 Music Video)
3 min | Short, Music
Video promo for "The Last Song", the second single from Elton John's 1992 album, The One.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Star: Elton John
Votes: 40
122.
Portlandia (2011–2018)
Episode:
Blunderbuss
(2011)
TV-14 | 23 min | Comedy
All of Portlandia is swept up in the excitement of a new music and film festival.
Director: Jonathan Krisel | Stars: Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, Selma Blair, Jenny Conlee
Votes: 341
123. Promised Land (2012)
R | 106 min | Drama
A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski, Hal Holbrook
Votes: 39,954 | Gross: $7.60M
124. Paranoid Park (2007)
R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A teenage skateboarder's life begins to fray after he is involved in the accidental death of a security guard.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Gabe Nevins, Daniel Liu, Taylor Momsen, Jake Miller
Votes: 31,979 | Gross: $0.49M
125. Howl (2010)
R | 84 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
As Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.
Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | Stars: James Franco, Todd Rotondi, Jon Prescott, Aaron Tveit
Votes: 13,417 | Gross: $0.62M
126. Massholes (2012– )
Comedy
A mock-reality show depicting two guys from South Boston who move to Hollywood to become the next "Matt & Ben" in the wake of their viral YouTube video.
Stars: Kenny Wormald, Paddy Quinn, Jimmy Ruggiero, Kurt Finney
Votes: 155
127. Schau mir in die Augen, Kleiner (2007)
90 min | Documentary, History
Documentary on the history of gay and lesbian film.
Director: André Schäfer | Stars: John Waters, Wieland Speck, Rosa von Praunheim, Jennifer Morris
Votes: 141
128. Five Ways to Kill Yourself (1987)
3 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Michael Parker, Gus Van Sant
Votes: 68
129. Good Morning (II) (2014)
10 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A short film that comically examines ideas of sexual identity and age anxiety via the story of a man who-on the morning after his 30th birthday party-wakes up with both a massive hangover and a 17-year-old boy sleeping on his couch.
Directors: Stephen Dunn, Peter Knegt | Stars: Peter Knegt, Oliver Skinner
Votes: 160
130. Deee-Lite: Runaway (1992 Music Video)
5 min | Music
The video also features the West Highland White Terrier dogs inside car with a band during the video.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Deee-Lite, Dmitry Brill, Lady Miss Kier, Towa Tei
Votes: 22
131. Undertow (2004)
R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller
Pig farmer and widower John Munn is raising his two sons in an isolated farmhouse, until his troubled brother arrives and changes their lives forever.
Director: David Gordon Green | Stars: Jamie Bell, Josh Lucas, Dermot Mulroney, Devon Alan
Votes: 9,366 | Gross: $0.02M
132. Mala Noche (1986)
Not Rated | 78 min | Drama
A story of amour fou. Walt is madly in love/lust with a young illegal Mexican immigrant. However, the object of his unrequited affection doesn't even speak any English and finds Walt really... See full summary »
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Tim Streeter, Doug Cooeyate, Ray Monge, Nyla McCarthy
Votes: 4,336
133. Strutter (2012)
87 min | Drama, Music
An aspiring L.A. rocker loses both his band and his girl, but gains the friendship of his own local rock hero.
Directors: Allison Anders, Kurt Voss | Stars: Sara Ashley, Iris Berry, Jade Gordon, Terry Graham
Votes: 115
134. Property (1979)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
A group of likeable eccentrics whose sense of their own culture sparks them to try to buy up their houses from developers. Contradictions abound. Affectionate comic sense deftly captures the afterglow of a generation.
Director: Penny Allen | Stars: Walt Curtis, Lola Desmond, Cork Hubbert, M.G. Horowitz
Votes: 44
135.
Feud (2017–2024)
Episode:
Phantasm Forgiveness
(2024)
TV-MA | 49 min | Biography, Drama
Past, present and future collide as Truman makes a final push to finish Answered Prayers.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Calista Flockhart
Votes: 353
136. Shortbus (2006)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A group of New Yorkers caught up in their romantic-sexual milieu converge at an underground salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality.
Director: John Cameron Mitchell | Stars: Sook-Yin Lee, Peter Stickles, PJ DeBoy, Paul Dawson
Votes: 35,458 | Gross: $1.99M
137. Certain Women (2016)
R | 107 min | Drama
The lives of three women intersect in small-town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail.
Director: Kelly Reichardt | Stars: Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, James Le Gros
Votes: 15,731 | Gross: $1.03M
138. Candlebox: Understanding (1996 Music Video)
5 min | Music
A music video by the band Candlebox to promote their song "Understanding."
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Candlebox, Kevin Martin
Votes: 47
139. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Desecration Smile - Alternative Version (2007 Music Video)
4 min | Music
There is also an alternate version of the band singing and playing their instruments by the ocean cut together with parts of the official video.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Flea, John Frusciante, Anthony Kiedis, Red Hot Chili Peppers
Votes: 24
140. Tommy Conwell & The Young Rumblers: I'm Seventeen (1991 Music Video)
4 min | Music
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Tommy Conwell, Tommy Conwell & The Young Rumblers
Votes: 15
141. HBO First Look (1992– )
13 min | Documentary, Short
Behind-the-scenes look at upcoming feature films, featuring interview commentary with their casts and crews.
Stars: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Steven Spielberg, Matt Damon
Votes: 481
142. Cinema 3 (1984–2016)
News
Stars: Jaume Figueras, Crisol Tuà, Monts Llussà, Àlex Gorina
Votes: 230
143. Une journée particulière (2012)
53 min | Documentary
In the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera.
Directors: Samuel Faure, Gilles Jacob | Stars: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Jane Campion, Kaige Chen
Votes: 27
144. Chris Isaak: San Francisco Days (1993 Music Video)
G | 3 min | Music
Director: Gus Van Sant | Star: Chris Isaak
Votes: 24
145. I'm Still Here (I) (2010)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Documents Joaquin Phoenix's transition from the acting world to a career as an aspiring rapper.
Director: Casey Affleck | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Antony Langdon, Carey Perloff, Larry McHale
Votes: 23,925 | Gross: $0.41M
146. The Country Club (2023)
90 min | Comedy
A farcical coming of age comedy about teen golfers competing in a country club's junior tournament.
Director: Fiona Robert | Stars: Elaine Hendrix, John Higgins, James Urbaniak, Steve Higgins
Votes: 29
147. Psycho Path (1998 TV Special)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary on the making of Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho (1960)
Director: D-J Haanraadts | Stars: Carlos Barbosa, Steve Bartek, Rosemary Brandenburg, Drew Casper
Votes: 116
148. On the Set of 'Elephant': Rolling Through Time (2004 Video)
12 min | Documentary, Short
An artistic and unconventional documentary about the making of Gus Van Sant's 'Elephant'. Brief interviews are put together with behind the scenes clips with the director, cast and crew ... See full summary »
Director: Felix Andrew | Stars: Eric Deulen, Alex Frost, Kristen Hicks, Elias McConnell
Votes: 73
149. Rescued from the Closet (2001 Video)
56 min | Documentary
Omnibus made up of outtakes from the documentary "The Celluloid Closet."
Stars: Kenneth Anger, Gregg Araki, Susie Bright, Rita Mae Brown
Votes: 92
150. The Sea of Trees (2015)
PG-13 | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A suicidal American befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest near Mt. Fuji and the two search for a way out.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Naomi Watts, Ken Watanabe, Ryoko Seta
Votes: 17,863 | Gross: $0.02M