Karen Black

All Movies of Karen Black

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  6.1
  Dark Blood
  Boy, a young widower with native American roots, lives in a desert in the USA contaminated by nuclear tests. In this desolate place, surrounded by katchina dolls which the indigenous population believes possess magical powers, he ...
  Character: Motel Woman

   2012

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  6.0
  Some Guy Who Kills People
  Some Guy Who Kills People is about Ken Boyd, a lonely man fresh out of the loony bin, who sets out to kill those he deems responsible for his miserable life.
   2011

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  6.2
  Watercolors
  Only art can turn something painful into something beautiful
  Character: Mrs. Martin

   2008

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  Hollywood Dreams
  In the City of Angels, a young Iowan girl (Frederick) fresh off the bus falls in love with a promising actor (Kirk).
   2006

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  Firecracker
  A tale of murder in small-town Kansas. When Jimmy is lured away from his abusive family by a traveling sideshow carnival, he encounters Sandra, one of the main attractions. The happiness they find together causes them to confront ...
   2005

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  3.0
  Curse Of The Forty Niner
  A group of friends discover gold deep inside an old mine. But by taking the gold and think they've hit it big, they awaken a long dead miner who's Hell Bent on protecting his treasure.
   2003

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  6.0
  House of 1000 Corpses
  Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
   2003

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  Teknolust
  Anxious to use artificial life to improve the world, Rosetta Stone, (Tilda Swinton), a bio-geneticist creates a Recipe for Cyborgs and uses her own DNA in order to breed three Self Replicating Automatons, part human, part computer...
   2002

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  4.9
  Soulkeeper
  Character: Magnificent Martha

   2001

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  The Underground Comedy Movie
  The film mainly consists of skits featuring celebrities in various roles, composing a series of comedic short films guaranteed to offend.
   1999

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  4.9
  Mascara
  Character: Aunt Eloise

   1999

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  Charades
  A bunch of friends met up for a barbecue in a big house in L.A. They all have something in their past and/or are screwed-up. Arguments, fights, murders and some sex occur in this talky drama that very slowly connects together.
   1998

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  3.4
  I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
  A mental patient escapes from the looney bin in drag, robs a bank, and goes on the lam!
  Character: Whip Lady

   1998

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  The Hunger
   1997

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  Conceiving Ada
  Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea of a computer language and proponent of t...
  Character: Lady Byron / Mother Coer

   1997

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  6.0
  Crimetime
  Crimetime is set in the future where the media is nearly omnipotent. When an unemployed actor named Bobby is hired to play a serial killer on a crime reenactment television series he desires to understand the killer's motivations ...
   1996

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  Dinosaur Valley Girls
  Character: Ro-Kell

   1996

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  4.0
  Final Judgement
  A priest is suspected in the brutal murder of a young stripper. To prove his innocence, he descends into the world of strip clubs and pornography, hoping to catch the killer. The priest is hampered by the police and taunted by the...
   1992

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  Legend of the Roller Blade Seven
  In a post-apocalyptic world where rollerblading is the chief means of travel, the evil Pharoah sends his minions outside the Wheel Zone to abduct a psychic. The psychic has been trained in the way of the samurai, but has shunned h...
  Character: Tarot

   1992

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  4.6
  Children of the Night
  A schoolteacher teams up with with a priest to stop a town being overrun by vampires.
  Character: Karen Thompson

   1991

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  Rubin and Ed
  A real estate salesman, ordered to find recruits for a sales seminar, stumbles onto an eccentric young hermit. Reclusive Rubin Farr teams up with vocal but unsuccessful multi-level salesman Ed Tuttle on a quest to bury Rubin's dea...
   1991

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  Evil Spirits
  A strange woman runs a boardinghouse whose tenants--mostly misfits and others who won't be missed--begin dying off or simply disappearing. She still cashes their government benefit checks even after they're gone, and it turns out ...
   1990

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  4.0
  Twisted Justice
  In the Los Angeles of the future, police are forbidden to carry weapons and must use stun guns (called "stingers") instead. A maverick detective ignores those restrictions in his pursuit of "The Bullseye Murderer,&q...
   1990

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  5.9
  Mirror Mirror
  Shy teenager Megan moves to a new town with her widowed mother and quickly becomes the most unpopular girl in high school. But when she starts to communicate with a mysterious mirror, her tormentors begin to meet with a horrifying...
  Character: Susan Gordon

   1990

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  Overexposed
  When co-workers of a beautiful soap star start disappearing and others wind up dead with no clues or evidence left behind, she is caught between fact and fiction; left as the real and final victim.
  Character: Mrs. Trowbridge

   1990

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  5.2
  Homer and Eddie
  A retarded man get help from a sociopathic woman when tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.
  Character: Belle

   1989

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  4.0
  Out of the Dark
  Suite Nothings, is a sleazy L.A. phone *fantasy* hot-line...in other words a phone-sex service, voiced by failed models, in which callers get to divulge their fantasies over the phone. Among them is Bobo, an individual who's twist...
   1988

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  The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
  Character: Martha Gelhorn

   1988

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  6.0
  It's Alive 3: Island of the Alive
  The mutant babies have been placed by court order on a deserted island. Appalled by the cycnicism and exploitation of the children by the legal system and the media, the man responsible for them leads an expedition to the island t
   1987

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  The Little Mermaid (Faerie Tale Theatre Series) (TV)
  Falling in love can sometimes make you lose your head-or tail-as the Little Mermaid's (Mork and Mindy's Pam Dawber) is about to find out. It's love at first sight when the Little Mermaid saves a shipwrecked Prince (Everwood's T...
   1987

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  6.0
  Invaders From Mars
  A small boy witnesses a flying saucer land near his house. The next day, his dad starts acting weird, and has a strange incision in the back of his neck. Soon the police, his mom, and a teacher are taken over by the aliens, as wel...
   1986

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  5.0
  Grimm Party (Faerie Tale Theatre Series) (TV)
  Faerie Tale Theatre's "lost" episode, Grimm Party, sometimes called "Greatest Moments.", kind of a mix between show scenes and making of.
   1985

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  6.0
  Cut and Run
   1985

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  Martin’s Day
  Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Steckert grabs a 12-year-old kid as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too - a quiet "good little boy" always obeying the rules, which life has given only disma...
   1985

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  7.0
  The Hitchhiker (TV Series)
  A series of mystery-thriller stories, linked only by the character of The Hitchhiker, who would introduce and close each episode in the style of Rod Serling or Alfred Hitchcock.
   1983

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  Faerie Tale Theatre (TV Series)
  TV Series (1982-1987). 6 seasons. 27 chapters. At a time when most other shows for children were either low-budget productions or product-inspired cartoons that were little more than half-hour commercials, this program set out to ...
   1982

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  Miss Right
  After falling for Juliette, the woman of his dreams, a womanizing journalist in Rome, Italy, must dump his numerous female lovers one by one, but not all of them take it well.
   1982

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  6.6
  Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
  It tells the story of a group of women, all members of a James Dean fan club, who meet on the anniversary of his death in the small town in which Giant was filmed. They experience a day full of revealed secrets and revelatory expe
  Character: Joanne

   1982

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  Separate Ways
  A wife unhappy in her marriage begins an affair with an art student, unaware that her husband, a race driver, is also having an affair.
   1981

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  Chanel Solitaire
   1981

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  The Last Word
   1979

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  4.1
  Killer Fish
  Jewel thieves attempt to recover treasure from piranha infested waters. Mistrust and betrayals happen amongst the gang in the quest for gold.
  Character: Kate

   1979

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  4.0
  The Squeeze
  Lee Van Cleef is a safe cracker coming out of retirement to pull off one last caper. The Germans behind the theft are planning to steal $1,000,000. But unbeknownst to the safe cracker, they are planning to kill him afterward. When...
  Character: Clarisse Saunders

   1978

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  6.0
  Capricorn One
  The government fakes a Mars landing then sets out to kill the astronauts involved.
   1978

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  In Praise of Older Women
  Andras Varda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him i...
  Character: Maya

   1978

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  7.3
  Family Plot
  Alfred Hitchcock's final film was adapted from Victor Canning's novel The Rainbird Pattern by Ernest Lehman, who previously wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Barbara Harris plays Blanche, a phony psychic, hi...
  Character: Fran

   1976

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  6.8
  Burnt Offerings
  Ben and Marian Roth find a large old rundown country house being offered incredibly cheaply and take a summer lease. But once they move in Ben finds himself prone to strange outbursts of violence while Marian spends all her time u...
  Character: Marian Rolf

   1976

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  6.8
  Trilogy of Terror
  Karen Black stars in an anthology of three bizarre and terrifying horror stories, where she tackles four distinct roles as women facing profound torment.
  Character: Julie

   1975

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  6.6
  The Day of the Locust
  Tod Hackett, fresh out of Yale, wants to make it as an art director in late 1930's Hollywood - but he finds himself increasingly distracted by his new neighbor Faye, a would-be starlet with possible designs of her own on a lonely,...
  Character: Faye Greener

   1975

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  8.3
  Nashville
  Following 24 characters through 5 days in the country music capital, Robert Altman's 1975 epic presents a complexly textured portrayal (and critique) of American obsessions with celebrity and power. Among the various stars, aspira...
  Character: Connie White

   1975

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  4.0
  Airport '75
   1974

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  7.5
  Rhinoceros
  The residents of a large town are inexplicably turning into rhinoceroses. Stanley (Gene Wilder), a mild-mannered office clerk, watches the bizarre transformations from a bemused distance. But soon the strange occurrences invade hi...
   1974

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  5.9
  The Great Gatsby
  Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby (Robert Redford). He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, ...
  Character: Myrtle Wilson

   1974

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  6.4
  The Outfit
  Character: Bett Harrow

   1973

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  5.5
  Drive, He Said
  Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. And his friend, Gabriel, who may have dropped out from schoo...
  Character: Olive

   1971

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  7.3
  Five Easy Pieces
  Bobby Eroica Dupea comes from a well-bred family of musicians, and once showed great promise as a concert pianist. By nature a restless, angry individual, Bobby left his family and his music when he could no longer endure the dull...
   1970

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  7.6
  Easy Rider
  A landmark in film history, EASY RIDER blew the studio doors open for more young directors than any film before or since, helping to create the wide-open climate that would lead to the production of many outstanding films in the 1...
   1969

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  6.2
  You're a Big Boy Now
  Bernard Chanticleer's father gives him two simple words of advice: "Grow up." Bernard knows that his first step is to find a girl who's "willing," but he passes up a sure thing, Amy Partlett, for a more elusive...
  Character: Amy Partlett

   1966