Johnny Depp
1) Life
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This book is the long awaited autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards. With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life. Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane; his listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band...
2) Black mass
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In 1970s South Boston, FBI Agent John Connolly (Joel Edgerton) persuades Irish mobster James "Whitey" Bulger (Johnny Depp) to collaborate with the FBI and eliminate a common enemy: the Italian mob. The drama tells the true story of this unholy alliance, which spiraled out of control, allowing Whitey to evade law enforcement, consolidate power, and become one of the most ruthless and powerful gangsters in Boston history.
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"Tike and Ella May Hamlin struggle to plant roots in the arid land of the Texas Panhandle. The husband and wife live in a precarious wooden farm shack, but Tike yearns for a sturdy house that will protect them from the treacherous elements. Thanks to a five-cent government pamphlet, Tike has the know-how to build a simple adobe dwelling, a structure made from the land itself--fireproof, windproof, Dust Bowl-proof. A house of earth. Though they are...
4) Gonzo
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Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney presents a probing look into the uncanny life of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson - inventor of gonzo journalism and author of the landmark "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Official Selection at the **San Francisco International Film Festival** and **Sundance Film Festival**.
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Narrated by Jeff Bridges and made by acclaimed directors Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, LOST IN LA MANCHA captures Terry Gilliam's aborted attempt to get The Man Who Killed Don Quixote in the can. Back injuries, freakish storms, and more zoom in to sabotage the project (which has never been resurrected).
7) Sunset Strip
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Home to the biggest sounds & cultural movements, experience the Strip in the 1920’s with Prohibition through the Mafia Wars, Teen Riots, Punk, Heavy Metal, Hip Hop and Grunge to today’s resurgence. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**.
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"Runnin' Down A Dream," a film directed by cinema legend Peter Bogdanovich, is the story of one of America's great rock and roll bands told as never before. Tracking Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from their Gainesville beginnings to their 30th anniversary celebration, "Runnin' Down A Dream" is the hard-hitting account of a band that became a family and, along the way, left a body of work that is among the richest deposits in American musical history....
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The Magistrate of an isolated frontier settlement on the border of an unnamed empire looks forward to an easy retirement until the arrival of Colonel Joll, whose task it is to report on the activities of the "barbarians" and the security situation on the border. Joll conducts a series of ruthless interrogations, which leads the Magistrate to question his loyalty to the empire.
10) Don Juan Demarco
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Romantic comedy about an aging psychiatrist and his patient, a young man who claims to be the legendary lover Don Juan.
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Three-time Academy Award® nominee Johnny Depp plays celebrated war photographer W. Eugene Smith in a real life David vs Goliath story, pitting Smith against a powerful corporation responsible for poisoning the people of Minamata, Japan in 1971. With the glory days of World War II far behind him, Smith has become a recluse. Between an impassioned Japanese translator called Aileen (Minami) urging him to go and a much needed commission from "Life" Magazine...
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Max has an active imagination, and will throw a fit if others don't go along with what he wants. Following an incident with his sister Claire and her friends, Max throws a tantrum when his mother pays more attention to her boyfriend than to him - and runs away from home. Wearing his wolf costume at the time, Max not only runs away physically, but runs toward a world in his imagination. This world, an ocean away, is inhabited by large wild beasts,...
13) Arizona Dream
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Academy Award-nominee Johnny Depp ("Pirates of the Caribbean," "Blow"), Academy Award-winner Faye Dunaway ("Network," "Chinatown"), and the legendary Jerry Lewis ("The King of Comedy," "Cinderfella"), headline this offbeat psychodrama about a group of people drawn together in a desert town. Fleeing personal problems to pursue their dreams, they come to learn something about themselves and their relationships with the others around them. The New York...
14) Rango
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A pet chameleon gets loose in the wild and ends up in a town that desperately needs a sheriff and hero.
15) The Libertine
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The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
16) Don Juan DeMarco
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Academy Award winners Marlon Brando and Faye Dunaway star with Johnny Depp in this romantic drama about a man who believes himself to be the legendary Don Juan—and who attempts suicide after the loss of his one true love. But placed under the care of a world-weary therapist, the patient begins to cure the doctor.
17) Brothers in Arms
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A documentary about the making of *Platoon*, the Oscar-winning, non-union, low budget film cast with young, unknown (at the time) actors. Insider stories of Oliver Stone's unique directing style and brutal filming conditions from the stars including Willem Dafoe, Johnny Depp and Charlie Sheen.
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A chronicle of the last 50 years of American music, politics and popular culture. This special documentary offers the unique perspective of a celebrated magazine that always understood that rock 'n' roll was more than just music; it was a cultural force that helped shape America and defined generations.
19) Transcendence
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Dr. Will Caster is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have also made him the prime target of anti-technology extremists who will do whatever it takes to stop him.
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Reinventing himself as Sweeney Todd, a man unjustly sent to prison returns to exact revenge on those who ruined his life, especially the evil Judge Turpin who sent the man to prison. Not only does he seek revenge for the cruel punishment he suffered in prison, but also for what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to his home town, he reopens his barber shop, where Mr. Todd becomes the Demon of Fleet Street. Mrs. Lovett is Sweeney's...