Movies: Bob Balaban

A collection of horror stories taking the viewer into the dark world of Stephen King, featuring vampires, strange objects and sinister humor. The five 20-minutes tales were all taken from the Tales from the Darkside TV series and strung together as a...

Six people tell their stories on a single subject - how they got wrongfully convicted to death penalty, but later got exonerated....

Best-selling author Ted Gold faces a moral dilemma when Velocity, an avant-garde performance artist and the living embodiment of integrity, rocks his 1% world....

Some people will do anything to find the location....

A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton....

Residents of an East Texas town react strangely when a serial killer invades their small town world....

People are asked to tell their favorite jokes....

A documentary film on the making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'...

In this coming of age comedy, a cocky high school student thinks nothing of using the people around him to satisfy his self-centered needs, until someone in his life gets pregnant....

A mother afflicted with depression comes into conflict with own mother and children when she refuses to seek professional health care....

A bookkeeper who thinks she killed three mobsters is subsequently promoted by her boss to be a hitman....

The legend of Tex, who never lost a gunfight....

Penn 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...

A documentary about the life of Carl Laemmle, early cinema pioneer and founder of Universal Studios, documenting his life in Hollywood and his efforts in the 1930s to save Jewish families in Nazi Germany....

A medical student marries a millionaire's daughter but insists they live on the money he earns....

Compilation of five horror stories from Tales from the Darkside (1983) that takes the viewer into the dark world of vampires, cursed objects and sinister humor. Despite the title, only the final story is by Stephen King....

An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway....

Follows Maisie and her father Kurt who have to leave their Brooklyn bubble to go back to Kurt's childhood home in Minnesota, where Maisie upsets long-standing family traditions, falls in love, and makes her family face their issues....

Graham Harris was once one of the world's foremost mountain climbers, until a fall five years earlier left him with a lame leg, a fear of heights...and a frightening psychic ability in which he can see murders as they are happening....

After a woman's husband dies while jogging in the park, the young widow's deep grief helps to awaken his ghost. The ghost urges her to commit suicide to join him in the afterlife. While the young woman is making up her mind about suicide, her husband...