Directing

Alan Smithee

Born 1969-04-08

Alan Smithee (also Allen Smithee) was an official pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project, coined in 1968. Until its use was formally discontinued in 2000, it was the sole pseudonym used by members of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) when a director dissatisfied with the final product proved to the satisfaction of a guild panel that he or she had not been able to exercise creative control over a film. The director was also required by guild rules not to discuss the circumstances leading to the move or even to acknowledge being the actual director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Smithee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Hellraiser: Bloodline poster
5.3

Three generations of the same family deal with the consequences of unleashing the forces of hell.

Hellraiser: Bloodline

1996

The Horror Show poster
5.4

Vowing revenge on the detective who apprehended him, serial killer "Meat Cleaver" Max Jenke returns from beyond the grave to launch a whole new reign of terror.

The Horror Show

1989

Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence poster
5.3

A priest practicing the Voodoo arts resurrects Matt Cordell, who takes his badge and returns from the dead...again...to do his bidding.

Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence

1992

Johnny poster
7.3

When Dr. Drew Carter tragically loses his ten-year old son in a car accident, he didn’t expect to lose his whole family as well. Since the accident, his wife (Julia) has become emotionally absent towards him and their daughter. When Johnny, a terminally ill foster child with leukemia, is referred to Drew he sees a chance to heal his family. With Julia against the idea, Drew takes matters into his own hands and adopts Johnny. Johnny doesn’t know what he is in for, but believes he is here for a special mission.

Johnny

2010

No artwork available
NR

A man is being chased by a shadowy pursuer, yet what remains of said chase is gradually consumed by a far greater evil.

Pavor Nocturnus

2024

Winesburg, Ohio poster
NR

'Winesburg, Ohio' is a film freely adapted from the classic novel by Sherwood Anderson, mentor to Faulkner and Hemingway, and inspired by 'the hunger to see below the surface of lives'. A young reporter in small town Ohio circa 1919, moves through a mysterious, labyrinthine world, glimpsing the dreams and disappointments of local inhabitants, as they relive the moments that renders them grotesque.

Winesburg, Ohio

2008

Anatar poster
3.6

After causing the collapse of their own planet, the Anatar people of humanoid aliens who evolved from ducks, are searching for a new celestial body to call a nest. During their wanderings in space they land on Pandono, a place where living beings and nature have found their strange balance. Love, war, spaceships and space ducks are the ingredients of this grotesque modern fairy tale about accepting what is different from us.

Anatar

2023

Death of a Gunfighter poster
6.3

In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottonwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. That ask for Patch's resignation, but he refuses on the basis that the town, on hiring him, had promised him the job for as long as he wanted it. Afraid for the town's future and even more afraid of the fact that Marshal Patch knows all the town's dark secrets, the city fathers decide that old-style violence is the only way to rid themselves of the unwanted lawman.

Death of a Gunfighter

1969

The Birds II: Land's End poster
4.0

Ted and his family have just moved to the sleepy coastal town of Gull Island so that he can complete work on his thesis. Everything couldn’t seem more picturesque about their new, seaside home… that is, except for the increasing number of aggressively behaving birds.

The Birds II: Land's End

1994

Solar Crisis poster
4.5

A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial Intelligence and a Japanese pilot at the right time so the flare will point somewhere else.

Solar Crisis

1992

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn poster
3.9

Filmmaker Alan Smithee finds himself the unwilling puppet of a potentially bad big budget action film, for which he proceeds to steal the reels, and leaves the cast and crew in a frenzy.

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn

1998

Hot Lead poster
10.0

In 1984 the United States is plunged into a nuclear holocaust. 13 years later, two reluctant partners must maintain law and order. Tim Allcock is Wayne Baseman, an impulsive maverick who never has a plan. Trent Collins is Ricky "The Axe" Rodriguez, an aging albino-black detective with a death wish. When it's too late to save the world, there's one thing left to do: Protect and Serve.

Hot Lead

2017

The Shrimp on the Barbie poster
5.7

Carlos has failed in show-biz and currently works as a waiter in a Mexican restaurant. There he meets Alex and dumb footballer Bruce celebrating their engagement with her parents. Alex' father is less than thrilled of her fiancée and says he'd rather accept anybody else. Eventually Alex hires Carlos to present him as her new fiancée.

The Shrimp on the Barbie

1990

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ego Death

2014

Fun and Games poster
7.0

A divorcee decides to fight back after her hopes of gaining a promotion are dashed by her rejection of the advances of her boss, and it is only after he actually attacks her that her company and her union take notice.

Fun and Games

1980

City in Fear poster
5.7

A psycho-on-the-loose story, about a burned-out newspaper columnist and his circulation-hungry publisher who wants him to turn the killer into Page One news.

City in Fear

1980

Ancient Evil poster
NR

A rookie police officer is forced to fight for survival against a cannibalistic cult in order to rescue a kidnapped journalist.

Ancient Evil

Woman Wanted poster
5.7

After the death of his wife, Richard hires a recently divorced housekeeper, Emma. Soon finding himself falling for her, his emotionally destructive son, Wendell, also grows attached to Emma, threatening to tear apart the family's already hostile relationship.

Woman Wanted

1999

No artwork available
7.0

A former spy named Kelly comes to the south of France to open a hotel for his post-spy career. However, he learns that three of his former colleagues have been betrayed and murdered, so he returns to the job he had left to search out the traitor. Meanwhile, Kelly's friend, a European mercenary named Rykker, is employed by an archaeologist's daughter to search for her father, who has been kidnapped for holding the key to a grand treasure hidden in the Pyramids.

Riviera

1987

The Nutt House poster
3.1

Two identical twins, separated since infancy, meet after 30 years causing a series of mistaken identity and crisis for all involved.

The Nutt House

1992

Let's Get Harry poster
6.2

Harry Burck has been kidnapped by South American terrorists, and when the US Government refuses to intervene, Harry's friends decide to take matters into their own hands!

Let's Get Harry

1986

Geki Uma!! Tenkaippin: Densetsu no Okonomiyaki-hen poster
NR

Miki, a food consultant, comes from a family that runs an okonomiyaki restaurant. After losing her parents in an unfortunate accident and just as she was about to close the shop, it is revealed that her father had become a guarantor for someone else's debt. Miki decides to protect the restaurant with her sisters.

Geki Uma!! Tenkaippin: Densetsu no Okonomiyaki-hen

2004

Stitches poster
3.5

The misadventures of three students in medical school.

Stitches

1985

Call Of The Wild poster
7.0

A young boy heads off to the Yukon after hearing tales about the Gold Rush, and he forms an unwavering friendship with a heroic Alsatian dog called Buck.

Call Of The Wild

1993