Paul Bartel
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Known For:Directing
Birthday:1938-08-06
Place of Birth:Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
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....

The Usual Suspects (1995)
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...

Cannonball (1976)
Coy "Cannonball" Buckman and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the continent in which...

Out of the Dark (1988)
A deranged killer wearing a clown mask begins preying on a group of young women working at a phone-sex company.

Piranha (1978)
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.

Death Race 2000 (1975)
In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five...

Citizen Steve (1987)
On the occasion of the 40th birthday of the almighty filmmaker Steven Allan Spielberg, inquisitive reporter Clip Maxwell attempts to uncover the...

Frankenweenie (1984)
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...

Soulmates (1992)
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.

Eating Raoul (1982)
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...

Chopping Mall (1986)
A group of teenagers that work at the mall all get together for a late night party in one of the stores. When the mall goes on lock down before they...

Get Crazy (1983)
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...

Follow That Bird (1985)
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,...

Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel (1992)
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...

Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
A Midwestern ingenue arrives in Hollywood to try her luck as an actress. An incompetent agent hooks her up with a production company which...

Perfect Fit (2001)
An aimless young man turns to murder in order to satisfy the desires of his new girlfriend, a narcissistic blue jean fetishist.

Hi, Mom! (1970)
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'...

Hard Time: The Premonition (1999)
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...

The Inheritance (1997)
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...

Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (1998)
Billy Collier is a photographer working on a series of pictures featuring recreations of movie kisses, with drag queens playing the female roles. For...

Caddyshack II (1988)
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...

Twin Sitters (1994)
An evil business executive is releasing dangerous toxins and the Barbarian Brothers set out to stop his evil work.

Prey of the Jaguar (1996)
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...

Killer Party (1986)
Three sorority pledges are tasked with ensuring that the gals of Sigma Alpha Pi throw a killer party at an abandoned fraternity house. Unfortunately...

Number One Fan (1995)
A movie star is being stalked by a one-night stand.

Liquid Dreams (1991)
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...

Utterly Without Redeeming Social Value (1969)
A psychologist interviews the members of a therapy group for people with sexual issues as to why they're in the group.

Grief (1994)
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."

Dreamers (2000)
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....

Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel (1978)
Documentary examining the life and career of producer/director Roger Corman. Clips from his films and interviews with actors and crew members who...

White Dog (1982)
A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to kill black people.

Skeletons (1997)
A heart attack moves a Pulitzer winning journalist to leave NY for the peace of a small New England town, but he soon finds himself pulled into a...

National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)
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,...

A Bucket of Blood (1995)
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....

Demonella (1993)
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...

Wild Turkey (1992)
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...

The Pope Must Die (1991)
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...

Not for Publication (1984)
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...

Into the Night (1985)
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.

Heartbeeps (1981)
Two domestic robots fall in love and run off together.

Shelf Life (1993)
Trapped in a bomb-shelter for thirty years, three adult children act out scenes from television shows in an imitation of 1960's life.

Made in the USA (1993)
A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.

The Elevator (1998)
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...

Basquiat (1996)
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.

Not Like Us (1995)
A sexy, horror-filled story featuring two gorgeous aliens who move into a small American town.

Trick or Treats (1982)
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...

Mortuary Academy (1988)
"Police Academy" clone, about some nerds who inherit an academy for morticians, which is run by a corrupt closet necropheliac. Of course, the most...

Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989)
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...

Acting on Impulse (1993)
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...

Eat My Dust (1976)
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...

Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog (1989)
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...

Corman's World (2011)
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...

Private Parts (1972)
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...

Munchies (1987)
Simon Watterman, a space archaeologist, discovers the "Munchies" in a cave in Peru. Cecil Watterman, Simon's evil twin brother and snack food...

The Jerky Boys (1995)
When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicago mob boss and curry favor with organized crime...

Grand Theft Auto (1977)
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...

Shakedown (1988)
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...

Escape from L.A. (1996)
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.

The Raven Red Kiss-Off (1990)
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...

The Living End (1992)
Two HIV-positive young men — a semi-employed film critic and a hot hustler — tear off on a cross-country crime spree.

Big Bad Mama (1974)
Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.

The Hustler of Muscle Beach (1980)
A slick promoter in the bodybuilding subculture of Venice Beach, California, finds what he considers a diamond in the rough: a dedicated but somewhat...

Heart Like a Wheel (1983)
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...

The Longshot (1986)
Four losers borrow money from gangsters to bet on a "sure thing", but lose. The gangsters go after them to get their money.

Baja Oklahoma (1988)
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...

Far Out Man (1990)
An aging hippie sets out on a trip across America to find his family.

Posse (1993)
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...

Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge (1995)
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...

Love and Happiness (1995)
Charlie (Charlie Mattera) very much lives the life of a Hollywood actor, consulting regularly with his agents and taking jobs from wealthy clients as...

Red Ribbon Blues (1995)
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...

Joe's Apartment (1996)
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.

Lewis & Clark & George (1997)
A sultry woman joins an illiterate killer and a brainy hacker, both escaped convicts, to search for gold.

The Devil's Child (1997)
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...

Race (1998)
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.

Hamlet (2000)
Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder in New York City.

Lost in the Garden of the World (1975)
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...

Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90's (1993)
Newswoman Fay Sommerfield takes a morally outraged look at excessive violence, bad language and sacrilege that pass for entertainment in the early...

The Wacky Adventures of Dr. Boris and Nurse Shirley (1995)
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...

Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' (2002)
Documentary that includes interviews with Singer as well as the rest of the cast - mainly Spacey. There is no "plot" or "promotional" elements to...

Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird...

Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989)

Utterly Without Redeeming Social Value (1969)

Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989)

L.A. Law (1986)
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven...

Fame (1982)
An American television series originally produced between 1982 and 1987. The show is based on the 1980 motion picture of the same name. With a...

Ally McBeal (1997)
Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an...

Chicago Hope (1994)
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The...

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985)
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The...

Amazing Stories (1985)
A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg...

Amazing Stories (1985)
A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg...

Clueless (1996)
CLUELESS is a television series spun off from the 1995 teen film of the same name. The series originally premiered on ABC on September 20, 1996 as a...

Bone Chillers (1996)
The spooky, sometimes even funny, misadventures of a gang of schoolchildren who encounter any number of strange happenings in their school and...

Tales of the City (1993)
Mary Ann Singleton, a naïve young secretary from the mid-west, tumbles head first into the colorful world of San Francisco, where carefree chaos...

More Tales of the City (1998)
Lonely inhabitants at 28 Barbary Lane search for love and identity, turning to each other in the hope of finding happiness in San Francisco.

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

Boston Common (1996)
After moving to Boston from Virginia, to spy on his sister who just started college, Boyd finds himself working for the student union where he raises...

Boston Common (1970)
CLUELESS is a television series spun off from the 1995 teen film of the same name. The series originally premiered on ABC on September 20, 1996 as a...

Boston Common (1970)
A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg...

Boston Common (1970)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

Boston Common (1970)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

Boston Common (1970)
A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg...