Projectionist movies
Movies featuring characters projecting motion picture film.
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- DirectorHarry HurwitzStarsChuck McCannIna BalinRodney DangerfieldA projectionist bored with his everyday life begins fantasizing about his being one of the superheroes he sees in the movies he shows.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsTom HulceLolita DavidovichAleksandr ZbruevThe true story of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin's private film projectionist from 1939 until the dictator's death. Told from Sanchin's view, the sympathetic but tragically flawed hero maintains unwavering faith in his "Master" despite the arrest of his neighbors and his involvement with their daughter, his wife's affair with the chilling State Security chief Lavrentii Beria and her tragic decline, and the deadly political machinations within the Kremlin he witnesses firsthand.
- DirectorBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonKathryn McGuireJoe KeatonA film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsPhilippe NoiretEnzo CannavaleAntonella AttiliA filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.
- DirectorPeter BogdanovichStarsTim O'KellyBoris KarloffNancy HsuehAn aging horror star questions his place in modern Hollywood, while a disturbed young man goes on a killing spree.
- DirectorMel BrooksStarsMel BrooksMarty FeldmanDom DeLuiseA film director and his strange friends struggle to produce the first major silent feature film in forty years.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsBrad PittEdward NortonMeat LoafAn insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.
- DirectorIrvin S. Yeaworth Jr.Russell S. Doughten Jr.StarsSteve McQueenAneta CorsautEarl RoweAn alien lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.
- DirectorSteve JamesStarsGeorgia PiersonJanet PiersonJohn PiersonFormer indie film "guru" John Pierson takes his family to Fiji for one year to run the world's most remote movie theater.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsBrad PittDiane KrugerEli RothIn Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
- DirectorSteven KrimmelDustin YatesStarsLisa AngeloneRicardo GavarreteMichael GreenhutA disturbed movie theater employee imagines that by changing his own life he can change the direction of the movie he watches every day at work.
- DirectorMichael BatesStarsJasmin De MainThe music of Rachmaninov accompanies a solitary man who walks through a cold and forbidding urban landscape during a stormy night. Under his arm he carries a film; he's a projectionist. As he passes walls and windows, scenes from movies appear. Dawn comes at last.
- DirectorMax SackerStarsNikolai KinskiSenta Dorothea KirschnerMark GisbourneA cinema projectionist becomes supernaturally entangled in a dangerous liaison with a silver screen femme fatale.
- DirectorTim HighamStarsGeorge WarnerSemeli EconomouDavid ErdosA Cinema Projectionist becomes entangled with a mad Italian Director's crazily combined remake of Cinema Paradiso and Pulp Fiction.
- DirectorElaine L. LiuStarsScott ChanJane HoKerry HuangSet during the Chinese Cultural Revolution in 1966, this short tells the story of a projectionist who accidentally inverts a film featuring Chairman Mao. The townsfolk and Red Guard are so enraged by the upside down image of one of China's most feared and revered leaders that the innocent mistake results in dire consequences for the projectionist.
- DirectorMattson TomlinStarsMatthew ArnoldJody BirdJohn ColbyA young Mayoral candidate compromises his campaign when a lovers jealous ex-boyfriend begins a deadly competition between the two of them.
- DirectorFabien SolFabrice SolStarsFranck AravitA projectionist one day discovers a film containing his own life.
- DirectorLevi WoodsStarsAndrea SimmondsDerek TurkingtonAfter locking up for the night, the projectionist hears unexplainable noises which cause him a great deal of distress. The situation worsens when he discovers he is not alone.
- DirectorKai-Jae WangStarsAnthony DeSantis
- DirectorGreg SlagleStarsMatt ObergSusan McBrienJennifer McCabeHow does Owen Brown face a troubling boss, a pushy girlfriend and a disappointed family? Why with a slide show presentation of course.
- DirectorJune Gersten-Roberts
- DirectorDan WainioStarsBronson ArcuriSamantha BowlingSteve DimatteoA documentary filmmaker, realizing his subject's life is not as interesting as he hoped, begins to interfere with his subject's life and relationships.
- DirectorMatt FackrellStarsKeith AlingtonMatt FackrellLee GwilliamWe open the door on the secretive world of the Projectionist and see what can drive dedicated employee's over the edge.
- DirectorKevin P. GabelStarsTristan CarlucciDarcy FehrThe last show is over and David is just about to close up the movie theatre where he works when he discovers he is not alone. He soon realizes the danger he's in, and that more than his life may be at stake.
- DirectorStewart HopewellStarsChristopher AmitranoMartin DuranteA mysterious stranger arrives in the small town of Franklin one dreary night to complete the purchase of the ancient State Theater.
- DirectorRichard DobbsStarsGrace ParkEsteban PowellAmy Price-FrancisA young woman from a traditional Indian family is hooked on meth and pregnant out of wedlock. Her mother seeks William's help, but the father is opposed to outside intervention in this private family matter. As the young woman's wedding to a close family friend nears, William must keep her from succumbing to her addictions--both to drugs and to the ex-boyfriend who got her hooked in the first place.
- StarsFrancesca Dale
- DirectorVíctor EriceStarsFernando Fernán GómezTeresa GimperaAna TorrentIn 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world.
- DirectorJohn PowerStarsJohn MeillonRod TaylorJohn EwartAt the beginnings of this centuary a man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies (naturally in black and white). But what they really want is stay at one place and open up a cinema.