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Bill Gunn

Bill Gunn

Bill Gunn was an American playwright, novelist, actor and film director. His 1973 cult classic horror film Ganja and Hess was chosen as one of ten best American films of the decade at the Cannes Film Festival, 1973. In the New Yorker, film critic Richard Brody described him as being "a visionary filmmaker left on the sidelines of the most ostensibly liberated period of American filmmaking." His drama Johnnas won an Emmy award in 1972.

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Movies Starring Bill Gunn (10)

Montgomery Clift (1983)

A documentary incorporating footage of Montgomery Clift's most memorable films; interviews with family and friends, and rare archival material stretching back to his childhood. What develops is the story of an intense young boy who yearned for stardom, ach ...

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Losing Ground (1982)

Sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the city, straining their rocky relationship. ...

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Personal Problems (1980)

An "experimental soap opera" centered on a Harlem nurse, her husband, her father-in-law, and her lover. ...

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Ganja & Hess (1973)

After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood. ...

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Penelope (1966)

When Penelope gets married to banker James Elcott, she finds him too preoccupied with work to pay much attention to her, so she robs his bank in disguise. After she confesses to her psychiatrist, Greg Mannix, he offers to return the money for her, as he is ...

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The Spy with My Face (1965)

Napoleon Solo is captured by Thrush and replaced with a double. ...

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The Interns (1962)

During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo both personal and professional upheavals. ...

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The Sound and the Fury (1959)

Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fortunes and respect. ...

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Crossroads (1957)

In Toronto, early twenty-somethings Judy Monroe and Roy Kirby are in love and are planning to get married. They understand the obstacles they are facing as husband and wife as Judy is white and Roy is black. ...

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The Army Game (1956)

Danny considers his time in the army a waste and pretends to be crazy to get a psychiatric discharge. ...

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Movies Made By Bill Gunn (6)

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2015)

Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. Soon after his transformation he enters into a dangerous romance with Ganja Hightower that questions the very nature of love, addict ...

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Personal Problems (1980)

An "experimental soap opera" centered on a Harlem nurse, her husband, her father-in-law, and her lover. ...

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Ganja & Hess (1973)

After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood. ...

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The Angel Levine (1970)

Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the ...

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The Landlord (1970)

At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a p ...

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Stop! (1970)

A married couple takes an extended holiday in Puerto Rico where their resentment and marital dysfunction begin to boil over. They meet an attractive couple who they invite over for dinner and soon start to learn about love and romance from their new friend ...

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