Paul Bartel
Paul Bartel (August 6, 1938 – May 13, 2000) was an American director, writer and actor.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.2357 |
| Birthday | 1938-08-06 |
| Place of Birth | Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Also Known As |
1990
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
6.525/3001
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But...
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1995
The Usual Suspects
8.164/11756
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also res...
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The Usual Suspects
1976
Cannonball
5.561/131
Coy "Cannonball" Buckman and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the continent in which ther...
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Cannonball
1988
Out of the Dark
5.602/49
A deranged killer wearing a clown mask begins preying on a group of young women working at a phone-sex company.
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Out of the Dark
1978
Piranha
5.958/780
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
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Piranha
1979
Rock 'n' Roll High School
6.31/163
A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
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Rock 'n' Roll High School
1975
Death Race 2000
6.162/594
In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five tea...
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Death Race 2000
1987
Citizen Steve
6/9
On the occasion of the 40th birthday of the almighty filmmaker Steven Allan Spielberg, inquisitive reporter Clip Maxwell attempts to uncover the truth...
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Citizen Steve
1984
Frankenweenie
6.947/460
When young Victor's pet dog Sparky (who stars in Victor's home-made monster movies) is hit by a car, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only...
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Frankenweenie
1992
Soulmates
3.8/6
A man who is immortal can bring his wife back from the dead temporarily by killing young women. But his latest would-be victim may be a problem.
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Soulmates
1982
Eating Raoul
6.452/155
A prudish married couple feel put upon by the swingers living in their apartment building. One night, by accident, they discover a way to both rid the...
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Eating Raoul
1986
Chopping Mall
5.803/416
High-tech robots equipped with state-of-the-art security devices have been recruited as the new mechanical "night watchmen" for the Park Plaza Mall. W...
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Chopping Mall
1983
Get Crazy
6.115/39
Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe's assistants Neil Allen and Willie L...
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Get Crazy
1985
Follow That Bird
6.462/93
Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker, who thinks it would be better for him to live with other birds. Unhappy, Big...
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Follow That Bird
1992
Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel
5.7/10
Right after Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California, in 1955, a toy salesman in town for a convention brings his wife with him so they can both go to...
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Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel
1976
Hollywood Boulevard
5.582/49
A Midwestern ingenue arrives in Hollywood to try her luck as an actress. An incompetent agent hooks her up with a production company which specializes...
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Hollywood Boulevard
2000
Perfect Fit
4.167/6
An aimless young man turns to murder in order to satisfy the desires of his new girlfriend, a narcissistic blue jean fetishist.
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Perfect Fit
1970
Hi, Mom!
6.247/215
Vietnam vet Jon Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, 'Peeping Tom' styl...
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Hi, Mom!
1999
Hard Time: The Premonition
5.625/8
Logan McQueen is an ex-cop serving a prison term for a bust that had gone awry. During his stint, he learns of a death row inmate that claims he can p...
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Hard Time: The Premonition
1997
The Inheritance
5.5/14
A beautiful orphan of mysterious parentage is asked by her adoptive family to help find a husband for their niece, but when two suitors both fall for...
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The Inheritance
1998
Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
5.898/49
Billy Collier is a photographer working on a series of pictures featuring recreations of movie kisses, with drag queens playing the female roles. For...
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Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
1988
Caddyshack II
4.187/222
When a crass new-money tycoon's membership application is turned down at a snooty country club, he retaliates by buying the club and turning it into a...
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Caddyshack II
1994
Twin Sitters
6.383/150
An evil business executive is releasing dangerous toxins and the Barbarian Brothers set out to stop his evil work.
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Twin Sitters
1996
Prey of the Jaguar
5.7/9
When his wife and son are brutally murdered by a fugitive drug lord that he helped put behind bars, former Special Ops agent Derek Leigh vows to aveng...
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Prey of the Jaguar
1986
Killer Party
5/64
It's April Fool's Day and the sisters of Sigma Alpha Pi believe they've found the perfect place to throw a party: the abandoned fraternity house where...
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Killer Party
1995
Number One Fan
3.286/7
A movie star is being stalked by a one-night stand.
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Number One Fan
1991
Liquid Dreams
4.625/12
In a slightly future America, a woman goes to the big city to visit with her sister, who is dead in her apartment. In order to find out what happened...
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Liquid Dreams
1969
Utterly Without Redeeming Social Value
4.5/4
A psychologist interviews the members of a therapy group for people with sexual issues as to why they're in the group.
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Utterly Without Redeeming Social Value
1994
Grief
4.6/10
A campy chronicle of the lusts and loves of the men and women who work on a low-rent TV show called, "The Love Judge."
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Grief
2000
Dreamers
4/7
Growing up in small-town America, two friends dream about escaping their confining families to search for their dreams and freedom in the big city. Ar...
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Dreamers
1978
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
7.7/6
Documentary examining the life and career of producer/director Roger Corman. Clips from his films and interviews with actors and crew members who have...
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Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
1982
White Dog
6.623/313
Samuel Fuller’s throat-grabbing exposé on American racism was misunderstood and withheld from release when it was made in the early eighties.Today, th...
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White Dog
1997
Skeletons
4.2/12
A heart attack moves a Pulitzer-winning journalist to leave New York for the peace of a small New England town, but he soon finds himself pulled into...
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Skeletons
1985
National Lampoon's European Vacation
6.17/1050
The Griswolds win a vacation to Europe on a game show, and so pack their bags for the continent. They do their best to catch the flavor of Europe, but...
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National Lampoon's European Vacation
1995
A Bucket of Blood
5.026/19
Walter Paisley, a busboy at a cappuccino bar called the Jabberjaw, is praised as a genius after he kills his landlady's cat and covers it in plaster....
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A Bucket of Blood
1993
Demonella
0/0
Music producer Arnold Silverstein is desperate for a song hit so when the Devil - a woman - supplies him with the answer to his dreams, a piece called...
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Demonella
1992
Wild Turkey
0/0
Jed, a New York cop, brings home the last Christmas turkey in the shop for his wife Sue. Unfortunately, they make a dramatic discovery whilst stuffing...
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Wild Turkey
1991
The Pope Must Die
5/29
A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and...
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The Pope Must Die
1984
Not for Publication
4.7/13
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 p...
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Not for Publication
1985
Into the Night
6.5/341
Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.
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Into the Night
1981
Heartbeeps
4.5/28
Two domestic robots fall in love and run off together.
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Heartbeeps
1993
Shelf Life
6.3/9
Trapped in a bomb-shelter for thirty years, three adult children act out scenes from television shows in an imitation of 1960's life.
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Shelf Life
1993
Made in the USA
2/2
A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.
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Made in the USA
1998
The Elevator
6/3
Things are going swimmingly for the film producer Roy Tilden, his last film is a success and he will soon receive an award for it. But his perfect day...
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The Elevator
1996
Basquiat
6.613/326
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
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Basquiat
1995
Not Like Us
3.9/7
A sexy, horror-filled story featuring two gorgeous aliens who move into a small American town.
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Not Like Us
1982
Trick or Treats
4.077/39
A baby sitter is stuck watching over a young brat on Halloween night who keeps playing vicious pranks on her. To add to her trouble the boy's deranged...
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Trick or Treats
1989
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
5.4/32
A wealthy Beverly Hills resident who has just become a widow, Clare Lipkin temporarily takes on her friend Lisabeth as a house guest. As the two women...
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Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
1993
Acting on Impulse
4.833/6
An erotic thriller actress becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a B-movie producer, leading her to hide out and engage in sexual thrills with a...
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Acting on Impulse
1988
Mortuary Academy
3.75/8
"Police Academy" clone, about some nerds who inherit an academy for morticians, which is run by a corrupt closet necropheliac. Of course, the most inc...
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Mortuary Academy
1976
Eat My Dust
5.8/22
Hoover Nielbold is a car-crazy teenager who, in order to impress the hottest girl in school, takes her for a ride in a souped-up race car owned by loc...
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Eat My Dust
1989
Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog
4.667/6
A socially isolated and extremely shy Los Angeles painter finds his dream girl in the form of a struggling actress and finds himself at last finding t...
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Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog
2011
Corman's World
7.028/88
A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious low-budget producer and director in the US film in...
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Corman's World
1972
Private Parts
5.613/40
In the sleaziest corner of Los Angeles, the King Edward Hotel has a new arrival in the form of Cheryl, a runaway teen. She's hoping to put her life ba...
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Private Parts
1987
Munchies
4.8/75
Simon Watterman, a space archaeologist, discovers the "Munchies" in a cave in Peru. Cecil Watterman, Simon's evil twin brother and snack food entrepre...
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Munchies
1995
The Jerky Boys
4.4/35
When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicago mob boss and curry favor with organized crime in...
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The Jerky Boys
1977
Grand Theft Auto
5.3/61
A rich girl steals her dad's Rolls Royce and heads off to Las Vegas to get married. However, her angry parents, a jealous suitor, and a bunch of rewar...
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Grand Theft Auto
1988
Shakedown
5.8/102
When a local drug dealer shoots a dishonest cop in self-defense, lawyer and renegade undercover cop join forces to clear him. But when their investiga...
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Shakedown
1996
Escape from L.A.
5.861/1673
Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken. His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device.
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Escape from L.A.
1990
The Raven Red Kiss-Off
7/1
Sent to keep an eye on a studio head's girlfriend at a Northern California film shoot, hardboiled P.I. Dan Turner, is forced to go into hiding when so...
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The Raven Red Kiss-Off
1995
Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge
6.7/11
This is a true story about the relationship between a mother and her daughter, and their struggle to make it to the top in the music world. It is abou...
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Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge
1997
The Devil's Child
4.5/24
A woman's mother makes a last-minute deal with the Devil to save her daughter's life, not realizing that her daughter's life is her stake. The daughte...
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The Devil's Child
1990
Far Out Man
5.479/24
An aging hippie sets out on a trip across America to find his family.
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Far Out Man
1992
The Living End
6.7/98
Two HIV-positive young men — a semi-employed film critic and a hot hustler — tear off on a cross-country crime spree.
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The Living End
1996
Joe's Apartment
5.8/389
A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.
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Joe's Apartment
1997
Lewis & Clark & George
4.4/14
A sultry woman joins an illiterate killer and a brainy hacker, both escaped convicts, to search for gold.
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Lewis & Clark & George
1995
Love and Happiness
5.5/2
Charlie (Charlie Mattera) very much lives the life of a Hollywood actor, consulting regularly with his agents and taking jobs from wealthy clients as...
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Love and Happiness
1998
Race
8/2
An East L.A working stiff is bullied by his wife to run for a City Council position against a well-organized recognized political figure.
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Race
2000
Hamlet
5.824/145
Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder in New York City.
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Hamlet
1974
Big Bad Mama
5.7/76
Circumstances force a mother and her two daughters to get into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country pursued by the law.
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Big Bad Mama
1988
Baja Oklahoma
6.5/10
Juanita Hutchins works at Texas bar, but she aspires to be a country songwriter. When she's not looking after her impulsive daughter, Candy, or vouchi...
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Baja Oklahoma
1993
Posse
5.463/95
A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches for...
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Posse
1980
The Hustler of Muscle Beach
5.75/4
A slick promoter in the bodybuilding subculture of Venice Beach, California, finds what he considers a diamond in the rough: a dedicated but somewhat...
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The Hustler of Muscle Beach
1986
The Longshot
5.2/8
Four losers borrow money from gangsters to bet on a "sure thing", but lose. The gangsters go after them to get their money.
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The Longshot
1995
Red Ribbon Blues
4.4/5
After attending his 23rd funeral for a friend with AIDS, Troy and his friends hatch a plan to steal the HIV drugs that they need. One sucessful heist...
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Red Ribbon Blues
1983
Heart Like a Wheel
5.871/31
Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of raci...
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Heart Like a Wheel
1975
Lost in the Garden of the World
0/0
Cannes is the town in France where Bergman meets bikinis, and the art of filmmaking meets the art of the deal. In 1975, a group of expat Kiwis managed...
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Lost in the Garden of the World
1993
Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90's
9/1
Newswoman Fay Sommerfield takes a morally outraged look at excessive violence, bad language and sacrilege that pass for entertainment in the early 90s...
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Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90's
1995
The Wacky Adventures of Dr. Boris and Nurse Shirley
10/1
A plastic surgeon and his nurse administer an aesthetic clinic that attracts several young women. But the two kill their clients and sell them to the...
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The Wacky Adventures of Dr. Boris and Nurse Shirley
1987
Amazon Women on the Moon
5.876/197
Centered on a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird spec...
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Amazon Women on the Moon
2001
Dinner and a Movie
4.5/2
A determined documentary filmmaker will do almost anything to raise money for her film, even if it means taking a side gig directing a ridiculous TV s...
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Dinner and a Movie
1996
Vampire Cult Queens from Hell
0/0
The Ebersole Hughes Company produced a staged reading of “Vampire Cult Queens from Hell” a screenplay about three cult queens (Mary Woronov, Barbara S...
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