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Directed by Paul Thomas AndersonOrigin USAGenres DramaThemes Films about families,
Films about religion,
Films about sexualityActors Joaquin Phoenix,
Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Amy Adams,
Laura Dern,
Rami Malek,
Jesse PlemonsRating71%
Freddie Quell is a sex-obsessed alcoholic World War II veteran from Lynn, Massachusetts, struggling to adjust to post-war society. He becomes a portrait photographer at a department store but is soon fired for getting into a drunken fight with a customer. Freddie then finds work at a Salinas, California cabbage farm, but his moonshine poisons one of the elderly Filipino migrant workers and he is chased off., 2h28
Directed by Paul Thomas AndersonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about drugs,
Films about sexuality,
Gangster filmsActors Josh Brolin,
Joaquin Phoenix,
Benicio del Toro,
Reese Witherspoon,
Owen Wilson,
Jena MaloneRating65%
In 1970, Shasta Fay Hepworth visits the rickety beach house of her ex-boyfriend, Larry "Doc" Sportello, a private investigator and hippie/dope head in Gordita Beach, a fictional town in Los Angeles County. Shasta tells him about her new lover, Michael Z. "Mickey" Wolfmann, a wealthy real estate developer. She asks Doc to help prevent Mickey’s wife and her lover from having Mickey abducted and committed to an insane asylum., 2h36
Directed by Paul Thomas AndersonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy-dramaThemes Films about families,
Medical-themed films,
Films about music and musicians,
Films about drugs,
Films about sexuality,
Films about television,
Films about pornography,
Musical films,
Buddy filmsActors Mark Wahlberg,
Julianne Moore,
Burt Reynolds,
Don Cheadle,
John C. Reilly,
William H. MacyRating78%
In 1977, Eddie Adams is a high school dropout who lives with his stepfather and emotionally abusive alcoholic mother in Torrance, California. He works at a Reseda nightclub owned by Maurice Rodriguez, where he is discovered by porn director Jack Horner, who auditions him by watching him have sex with Rollergirl, a porn starlet who always wears skates. After a heated argument with his mother about his girlfriend and sex life, Adams moves in with Horner at his San Fernando Valley home. , 1h35
Directed by Paul Thomas AndersonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Transport filmsActors Adam Sandler,
Emily Watson,
Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Luis Guzmán,
Mary Lynn Rajskub,
Robert SmigelRating72%
Barry Egan is a single man who owns a company that markets themed toilet plungers and other novelty items. He has seven overbearing sisters who ridicule and emotionally abuse him regularly and leads a lonely life punctuated by fits of rage and anguish. In the span of one morning, he witnesses an inexplicable car accident, picks up an abandoned harmonium from the street, and encounters Lena Leonard, a coworker of his sister's, Lena having orchestrated this meeting after seeing him in a family picture belonging to his sister Elizabeth., 32minutes
Directed by Paul Thomas AndersonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
DocumentaryThemes Films about sexuality,
Films about pornographyActors Robert Ridgely,
Ernie AndersonRating59%
Dirk Diggler (Michael Stein) was born as Steven Samuel Adams on April 15, 1961 outside of Saint Paul, Minnesota. His parents are a construction worker and a boutique shop owner who attend church every Sunday and believe in God. Looking for a career as a male model, Diggler drops out of school at age 16 and leaves home. Jack Horner (Robert Ridgely) discovers Diggler at a falafel stand. Diggler meets his friend, Reed Rothchild (Eddie Delcore), through Horner in 1979, while working on a film., 2h38
Directed by Paul Thomas AndersonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
ThrillerThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about disabilities,
Sign-language films,
American Sign Language films,
Films about language and translationActors Daniel Day-Lewis,
Paul Dano,
Ciarán Hinds,
Kevin J. O'Connor,
Dillon Freasier,
Russell HarvardRating81%
In 1898, Daniel Plainview, a prospector in New Mexico, mines a potentially precious ore vein from a pit mine hole. In the process of dynamiting the lode, he falls from a broken rung of the tunnel ladder and breaks his leg. He saves a silver sample, climbs out of the mine, and drags himself to the nearest assay office to record his and gets a Silver and Gold certificate claim. In 1902, he discovers oil near Los Angeles, California and establishes a small drilling company. Following the death of a worker in an accident, Daniel adopts the man's orphaned son. The boy, named H. W., becomes his nominal "business partner", allowing Daniel to paint himself to potential investors as "a family man"., 1h41
Directed by Paul Thomas AndersonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Comedy-drama,
Noir,
CrimeActors Philip Baker Hall,
John C. Reilly,
Gwyneth Paltrow,
Samuel L. Jackson,
Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Robert RidgelyRating70%
Sydney, a gambler in his 60s, finds a young man, John, sitting forlornly outside a diner and offers to give him a cigarette and buy him a cup of coffee. Sydney learns that John is trying to raise enough money for his mother's burial. He offers to drive him to Las Vegas and teach him how to make some money and survive. Skeptical at first, John agrees., 1h46
Directed by Peter SegalOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
RomanceThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
Transgender in film,
Films about psychiatry,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Adam Sandler,
Jack Nicholson,
Marisa Tomei,
Luis Guzmán,
Allen Covert,
Lynne ThigpenRating61%
In 1978, a young Dave Buznik is about to kiss the girl of his dreams, when a local bully, Arnie Shankman, pulls down his pants and underwear, embarrassing him in front of everybody. This leaves Dave with lasting trauma about public affection, as well as repressing his emotions. In the present day, Dave Buznik lives in New York, working as a secretary for Frank Head, an abusive boss who takes credit for Dave's work. His problems also extend to his private life, his girlfriend Linda's ex-boyfriend Andrew still being close friends with her and being condescending to Dave at work., 24minutes
Directed by Paul Thomas AndersonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
CrimeThemes Cooking filmsActors Philip Baker Hall,
Kirk Baltz,
Miguel Ferrer,
Scott CoffeyRating70%
An older man (Hall) is sitting at a table with a younger man (Kirk Baltz) at a diner discussing a matter over cigarettes and coffee. A newlywed couple sits at the table next to them discussing how the wife lost all their money gambling on craps. Another man, Bill (Miguel Ferrer), is outside of the diner making a phone call but the matter being discussed is unclear.