Movies: Steven Gaydos

Ricky Caldwell, the notorious 'Killer Santa Claus', awakens from a six-year coma after being kept alive on life-support by a slightly crazed doctor experimenting with ESP and other special abilities. Ricky targets a young, clairvoyant blind woman, na...

A man who trains fighting cocks vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship....

Ekchart Schmidt examines the machinery behind the dream factory; the Hollywood myth is unmasked. How does the studio industry work? What role does marketing and the hype surrounding the stars play?...

A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. Unsuspectingly, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue: ...

A grotesquely disfigured harpooner called Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in the 19th century. One night he escapes and takes up residence on a remote island. He makes himself ruler of the island and declares war...

A woman wins her sister a Beverly Hills wedding and gets a surprise of her own....

Willing to do anything for money and fame, Lucky and Billie fake their love and eventually become a real couple, willing to sacrifice their dreams of success for real love and real life music....

Documentary about Hollywood....

A documentary about the influential independent film production company The Shooting Gallery....

Documentary about Marilyn Monroe: 1962: America loses its blonde icon. Marilyn Monroe dies under mysterious circumstances. How did she die? The police report states: probable suicide. But there are many things that point to murder: a corpse draped to...

Melodrama about a man cursed with immortality, who tries to declare his undying love for a depressed actress....

Documentary about Hollywood....

Starting out as e-mail pen pals, Daniel and Laura soon fall in love. Only problem is that she lives in Germany and he lives in Los Angeles. When they finally arrange to meet in person, they discover that there is no chemistry between them....

Documentary about Hollywood stars, paparazzis and professional photographers....

Aspiring actors and actresses talk about making it in Hollywood and how they perceive this world. Casting directors and filmmakers also share their perspectives....

Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound genre of classic Hollywood cinema. Eckhart Schmidt tries to show the background and developments and speaks, among others, with directors such as Richar...

TV review of a litany of Hollywood impropriety....

Hollywood would be nothing without them: without the stars, who combine a lot of light and shadow, who act as rebels not only in front of but also behind the camera....

Documentary about Alfred Hitchcocks infatuation with blondes....

Documentary about American gangster movies....