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1. Don't You Go Nowhere (2022)
8 min | Short, Drama
Acclaimed Austin musicians Mac Mcintosh, the Michael Hale Trio and Taméca Jones star in DON'T YOU GO NOWHERE. We begin onstage at a jazz club where the aging but incomparable Doc Marvell ... See full summary »
Director: Bryan Poyser | Stars: Mac Mcintosh, Tameca Jones, Michael Hale, Jimmy Blazer
Votes: 9
2. Bodies of Water (I) (2018)
14 min | Short
It's 1982, Marsh is 24 years old, and struggles with a tormenting secret. One random night, he crosses paths with Rivers, a stranger so striking that Marsh is instantly smitten. Marsh ... See full summary »
Director: David Lykes Keenan | Stars: Ellar Coltrane, AnnaClare Hicks, Roby Attal, Sean Koetting
Votes: 11
3. The Art Show (2002–2004)
30 min | Documentary
This series taps into the boom of the contemporary art scene and new artists. Find out why, in this eclectic, informative and educational art series, people buy art?
Stars: Wayne Hemingway, Ben Lewis, Jacques Peretti, Charlie Luxton
Votes: 12
4. Antone's: Home of the Blues (2004)
Documentary
Documentary film about the legendary blues club in Austin, Texas, "Antone's." The film is filled with historical and dynamic blues performances from the earliest days of the club in the ... See full summary »
Director: Dan Karlok | Stars: David Adelson, Clifford Antone, Marcia Ball, Lou Ann Barton
Votes: 36
5. Also Starring Austin (2018)
91 min | Documentary
ALSO STARRING AUSTIN uses scenes from locally shot films as a lens to explore a community's rapidly changing built and natural environment and unique, enduring culture.
Director: Mike Blizzard | Stars: Elizabeth Avellan, Wayne Bell, Louis Black, Andrew Bujalski
Votes: 17
6. Independent Lens (1999– )
TV-14 | Documentary
Independent Lens is an award-winning PBS documentary series that streams on the PBS App and airs on public television. Independent Lens documentaries focus on stories of underrepresented ... See full summary »
Stars: America Ferrera, Terrence Howard, Stanley Tucci, Mary-Louise Parker
Votes: 635
7. Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove (2015)
83 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Sir Doug & The Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove tells the story of Doug Sahm, the wild man musicians' musician and unsung hero of Texas music. A country music child prodigy and teenage rhythm & ... See full summary »
Director: Joe Nick Patoski
Votes: 69
8. Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston? (2015)
15 min | Animation, Short, Biography
Daniel Johnston stars in this psychedelic short film about an aging musician coming to terms with the dreams of yesteryear.
Director: Gabriel Sunday | Stars: Don Goede, Daniel Johnston, Greg McLeod, Myles McLeod
Votes: 320
9. Durch die Nacht mit... (2002– )
Documentary
Two celebrities meet for the first time to spend an evening in each others and the camera's company.
Stars: Christoph Schlingensief, Jonathan Meese, Helene Hegemann, Till Brönner
Votes: 222
10. Tower (2016)
TV-14 | 82 min | Documentary, Animation, Crime
Animation, testimony, and archival footage combine to relate the events of August 1, 1966 when a gunman opened fire from the University of Texas clock tower, killing 16 people.
Director: Keith Maitland | Stars: Monty Muir, Violett Beane, Cole Bee Wilson, Aldo Ordoñez
Votes: 8,290 | Gross: $0.09M
11. The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2005)
PG-13 | 110 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Daniel Johnston, manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist is revealed in this portrait of madness, creativity and love.
Director: Jeff Feuerzeig | Stars: Daniel Johnston, Mabel Johnston, Bill Johnston, Laurie Allen
Votes: 10,535 | Gross: $0.33M
12. Be Here to Love Me (2004)
Not Rated | 99 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Be Here to Love Me - Chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of musician Townes van Zandt.
Director: Margaret Brown | Stars: Joe Ely, Guy Clark, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson
Votes: 1,418 | Gross: $0.13M
13. Never Leave Nevada (1990)
88 min | Comedy
Two salesman go to Nevada to exploit nuclear testing site protesters, and end up finding something more.
Director: Steve Swartz | Stars: Steve Swartz, Rodney Rincon, Katherine Catmull, Janelle Buchanan
Votes: 20
14. Waking Life (2001)
R | 99 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
A man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Trevor Jack Brooks, Lorelei Linklater, Wiley Wiggins
Votes: 66,948 | Gross: $2.89M
15. Blaze Foley: Duct Tape Messiah (2011)
74 min | Documentary, Music
A documentary on the everyday man behind the legend, Blaze Foley. Born in a tree house, killed in a friend's living room and 86'ed from his own funeral, is now a bona fide country music ... See full summary »
Director: Kevin Triplett | Stars: Blaze Foley, Joe James Sawyer, Larry Monroe, Leland Waddell
Votes: 172
16. Fire Music (2021)
88 min | Documentary
A look at the history and evolution of the free jazz movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Director: Tom Surgal | Stars: Rashied Ali, Albert Ayler, Carla Bley, Bobby Bradford
Votes: 121
17. Isip the Warrior (2013)
Short, Drama
Isip the Warrior follows Isip and Simon, lifelong friends who commiserate in their passive, girl-deficient lives - that is until Isip decides to make a dramatic life change, becoming a self-proclaimed missionary.
Director: Kenny Riches | Stars: Louis Black, Ashly Burch, Scott Fetzer, Patrick Fugit
Votes: 15
18.
The Art Show (2002–2004)
Episode:
Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
(2004)
60 min | Documentary
Ben Lewis meets film maker Richard Linklater to find out how he made it big in Hollywood without losing his anti-corporate values. Trying to get under the skin of the cult director, Lewis finds himself being led a merry dance.
Director: Irshad Ashraf | Stars: Marta Banda, Jack Black, Louis Black, Steve Brudniak
Votes: 22
19. QT8: The First Eight (2019)
TV-MA | 103 min | Documentary
A documentary that focuses on the first 21 years of Quentin Tarantino's career and includes interviews with his frequent collaborators.
Director: Tara Wood | Stars: Zoë Bell, Louis Black, Bruce Dern, Robert Forster
Votes: 5,072 | Gross: $0.05M
20. Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny (2016)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
A feature documentary on the life and work of filmmaker, Richard Linklater. Produced and Directed by Louis Black (founder of SXSW Festivals and the Austin Chronicle) and Karen Bernstein (... See full summary »
Directors: Louis Black, Karen Bernstein | Stars: Sandra Adair, Patricia Arquette, Michael Barker, Jack Black
Votes: 427
21. Hell on Wheels (I) (2007)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, Sport
Hell On Wheels tells the story of a group of Texas women who band together to resurrect roller derby for the 21st century.
Director: Bob Ray | Stars: Dave Attell, Lacy Attuso, Shawna Benson, Nicole Brandt
Votes: 104
22.
Independent Lens (1999– )
Episode:
The Great Invisible
(2015)
TV-14 | Documentary
Director: Margaret Brown | Stars: Doug Brown, Kenneth Feinberg, Safiya Fredericks, Daphne Davis German
Votes: 10
23. True Stories (1986)
PG | 89 min | Comedy, Musical
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.
Director: David Byrne | Stars: David Byrne, John Goodman, Annie McEnroe, Jo Harvey Allen
Votes: 7,500 | Gross: $2.55M
24. The Whole Shootin' Match (1978)
Not Rated | 109 min | Comedy, Drama
Lloyd (Lou Perry) and Frank (Sonny Davis), two lifelong friends and self-styled entrepreneurs in Austin, try to find the get-rich-quick scheme that will actually get them rich. Lloyd has ... See full summary »
Director: Eagle Pennell | Stars: Lou Perryman, Sonny Carl Davis, Doris Hargrave, Eric Henshaw
Votes: 424
25. Descendant (2022)
PG | 109 min | Documentary, History
Follows descendants of the survivors from the Clotilda, the last ship that carried enslaved Africans to the United States, as they reclaim their story.
Director: Margaret Brown | Stars: Theodore Arthur, Gary Autrey, Chris Davis, Joycelyn Davis
Votes: 1,418
26. Death Proof (2007)
R | 127 min | Action, Thriller
Two separate sets of voluptuous women are stalked at different times by a scarred stuntman who uses his "death proof" cars to execute his murderous plans.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Kurt Russell, Zoë Bell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito
Votes: 314,005
27. Planet Terror (2007)
R | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
After an experimental bio-weapon is released, turning thousands into zombie-like creatures, it's up to a rag-tag group of survivors to stop the infected and those behind its release.
Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodríguez, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton
Votes: 223,351
28. Slacker (1990)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
A day in the life of Austin, Texas as the camera roams from place to place and provides a brief look at the overeducated, the social misfits, the outcasts and the oddballs.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine, Jan Hockey
Votes: 23,488 | Gross: $1.23M
29. Rogers Park (2017)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
Two Chicago couples struggle to keep their love alive when secrets and long-simmering resentments rise to the surface.
Director: Kyle Henry | Stars: Christine Horn, Jonny Mars, Antoine McKay, Sara Sevigny
Votes: 79
30. The King of Texas (2008)
Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary
A look at the life and work of independent Texas filmmaker Eagle Pinnell.
Director: René Pinnell | Stars: Wayne Bell, Ray Benson, Louis Black, Sonny Carl Davis
Votes: 65
31. J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius (2019)
85 min | Documentary
The Church of the SubGenius has been called "the most aggressively preposterous theology the world has ever known!" But what is the Church? Filmmaker Sandy K. Boone explores the underground... See full summary »
Director: Sandy K. Boone | Stars: Vicki Amorose, Susan Barrows, Trevor Blake, Gerald Casale
Votes: 187
32. The Order of Myths (2008)
Unrated | 97 min | Documentary
In 2007 Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras is celebrated... and complicated. Following a cast of characters, parades, and parties across an enduring color line, we see that beneath the surface of pageantry lies something else altogether.
Director: Margaret Brown
Votes: 530
33. Last Night at the Alamo (1983)
Unrated | 81 min | Comedy, Drama
Cowboy, and assorted blue collar buddies, inneffectually try to save a true Texas Honky Tonk from closing for good.
Director: Eagle Pennell | Stars: Sonny Carl Davis, Lou Perryman, Steven Mattila, Tina-Bess Hubbard
Votes: 389
34. The Faculty (1998)
R | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
When Casey Connor, Herrington High School's newspaper photographer, witnesses the murder of a nurse and sees her alive again, he decides to investigate the bizarre happenings.
Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, Josh Hartnett
Votes: 135,178 | Gross: $40.06M
35. Blaze (2018)
R | 129 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A reimagining of the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas Outlaw Music movement.
Director: Ethan Hawke | Stars: Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat, Josh Hamilton, Charlie Sexton
Votes: 3,643 | Gross: $0.07M
36. Tales of the Rat Fink (2006)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, Biography
The life and times of famed hot rod & custom car designer Ed "Big Daddy" Roth.
Director: Ron Mann | Stars: John Goodman, Ted Rosnick, Alex Xydias, Paul Le Mat
Votes: 290
37. The Great Invisible (2014)
PG-13 | 92 min | Documentary
A documentary on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion as seen through the eyes of oil executives, survivors and Gulf Coast residents who experienced it first-hand and then were left to pick up the pieces while the world moved on.
Director: Margaret Brown | Stars: Meccah Boynton-Brown, Doug Brown, Bob Cavnar, Brent Coon
Votes: 597 | Gross: $0.01M
38. 21 Years: Richard Linklater (2014)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, Biography
It's been said that the first 21 years defines the career of an artist. Few directors have single-handedly shaken up the film establishment like the godfather of indie, Richard Linklater. ... See full summary »
Directors: Michael Dunaway, Tara Wood | Stars: Joey Lauren Adams, Jack Black, Louis Black, Rebecca Campbell
Votes: 801
39. University, Inc. (1999)
54 min | Documentary
Director: Kyle Henry | Stars: Tammy Arnstein, Louis Black, Heather Courtney, Harry Jay Knowles
Votes: 20
40. Rondo and Bob (2020)
100 min | Documentary
Robert A. Burns, art director on the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre, was obsessed with actor Rondo Hatton aka the Creeper. Burns was average looking but brimming with odd creativity. ... See full summary »
Director: Joe O'Connell | Stars: Ryan Williams, Kelsey Pribilski, Joseph Middleton, Robert A. Burns
Votes: 38
41. Becoming Leslie (2019)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary
BECOMING LESLIE chronicles life on the streets as seen through the eyes of a cross-dressing, homeless man named Leslie Cochran, one of the most beloved yet polarizing cult figures of Austin... See full summary »
Director: Tracy Frazier | Stars: Leslie Cochran, Bob Biard, Adam Callaway, James Haddox
Votes: 51
42. Slash (I) (2016)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Freshman Neil's Vanguard stories are all he cares about...until he meets the older Julia, who pushes him to put his own fan fic online. When the website's moderator takes a special interest in Neil's work, it opens up a whole new universe.
Director: Clay Liford | Stars: Tishuan Scott, Lucas Neff, Courtney Bandeko, Michael Johnston
Votes: 1,208
43. The Next Kill (2018)
81 min | Action
After the city's deadliest serial killer breaks out of jail, the aging Texas Ranger that put him away comes out of retirement to stop the monster's rampage, this time for good. Violence and hilarity ensue as the city is thrown into chaos.
Director: Mike McCutchen | Stars: Jarrett King, David Harrod Jr., Mitch Dodd, Levi McGlathery
Votes: 70
44. Spy Kids (2001)
PG | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Using high tech gadgets, two kids have to save their reactivated OSS top spy parents when they're taken by an evil, high tech enemy.
Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Alexa PenaVega, Daryl Sabara, Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino
Votes: 127,404 | Gross: $112.72M
45. Eggshells (1969)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Fantasy
Experimental allegorical story about a group of hippie students in Austin, Texas, who move into an old big house in the woods. However, something else is there and it's influencing them.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Mahlon Foreman, Ron Barnhart, Amy Lester, Kim Henkel
Votes: 495
46. Not for Publication (1984)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A tabloid reporter and her new photographer, who've recently started working for the mayor of New York City, stumble upon evidence of conspiracy and political corruption that may involve their beloved mayor.
Director: Paul Bartel | Stars: Nancy Allen, Don Peoples, Catherine Schultz, Richard Blackburn
Votes: 270
47. We Can Be Heroes (II) (2020)
PG | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
When alien invaders capture the Earth's superheroes, their kids must learn to work together to save their parents and the planet.
Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: YaYa Gosselin, Pedro Pascal, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Lyon Daniels
Votes: 17,163
48. Shorts (2009)
PG | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A young boy's discovery of a colorful, wish-granting rock causes chaos in the suburban town of Black Falls when jealous kids and scheming adults alike set out to get their hands on it.
Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Jimmy Bennett, James Spader, Kat Dennings, Jake Short
Votes: 8,014 | Gross: $20.92M
49. The Honor Farm (2017)
TV-MA | 74 min | Drama, Thriller
On prom night, a group of kids wander deep into the woods and come back changed forever.
Director: Karen Skloss | Stars: Olivia Grace Applegate, Louis Hunter, Dora Madison, Liam Aiken
Votes: 407
50.
Ain't It Cool with Harry Knowles (2012–2015)
Episode:
Danny Boyle
(2015)
25 min | Talk-Show
Director: Brett A. Hart | Stars: Danny Boyle, Harry Jay Knowles, Jarrell Jay Knowles
Votes: 6