Penelope Spheeris Movies

A look at the Travis Walton abduction

Albert Brooks presents a mockumentary in which he presents several shocking news stories. Saturday Night Live, Season 1 Episode 1

An entertaining combination of heavy-metal rockers and female mud wrestlers hosted by Jessica Hahn.

Two years before Peter Watkins’ Punishment Park (1971), director Penelope Spheeris takes the McCarran Act to its inevitable next step and shows...

An unfinished archival short, in which the titular substance plays a key role in determining an outmoded man’s role in a changing society. ...

Synthesis is director Penelope Spheeris' first film, made in 8mm Kodachrome while she was a student at UCLA. In a seemingly near-future control room...

A white man goes on trial for having raped a black woman.

Albert Brooks introduces himself to the audience through showing them his home movies from childhood & attempts and fails at doing candid-camera...

Picking up the story first presented in I Don’t Know (1970), Hats Off to Hollywood (1972) brazenly and brilliantly mixes documentary reality...

Documentery from 1991 where The 2 Live Crew, Chuck D (Public Enemy), Too Short, Ice-T, Geto Boys, H.W.A. drop real talk on different topics.

An early short film by Penelope Spheeris about a boy enjoying the age-old pleasures of making a wish on a dandelion. Preserved by the Academy Film...

Super mid-season replacements to failed shows in a network's super season. Saturday Night Live, Season 1 Episode 4

Albert places an ad in a newspaper expressing a desire to perform a heart bypass & gets to live his dream of being a heart surgeon for one day....

Albert Brooks goes to a research institute to find out why people don't like him and how he can change that. Saturday Night Live, Season 1 Episode 9

Documents the making of BLOOD DOLLS, interviewing members of the cast and crew.

Made in an environment and at a time when frequent and gratuitous images of nude women permeated the work of her male counterparts, director Penelope...