Norman Mailer Movies

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brad Dourif

In 1955, Tobias Schneebaum disappeared into the depths of the Peruvian Amazon. He had no guide, no map, and only the vaguest of instructions: Keep...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tobias Schneebaum

A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Burgess Meredith

A provocateur, a rebel, a performer, and a true American, Norman Mailer never stopped giving people something to talk about. This documentary goes...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling — debate the issue of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Norman Mailer

Nicholas Jarecki follows director James Toback on the 12-day shoot of his thriller, When Will I Be Loved -- a movie made without a script or...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Woody Allen

Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norman Mailer

Takes place over the course of one feverish night in a Manhattan police precinct and neighboring bar.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rip Torn

Norman Mailer’s first feature filmmaking effort stars the director and his two longtime collaborators Buzz Farbar and Mickey Knox as a trio of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norman Mailer

New York in the Fifties is the story of a unique time and place, when New York was the hotbed of new artistic expressions, free love, drinking, hot...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jack Kerouac

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review of Books, America’s leading journal of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Chabon

Documentary produced and broadcast in the show "Court Circuit" on Arte.

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Cast: Gilles Boulenger

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Muhammad Ali

Portrait of Norman Mailer at the time of the Pentagon demonstrations in 1967, documenting Mailer's involvement and arrest, together with two TV...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Merv Griffin

One of the human trio is Dick Fontaine, the director, a thin, long-haired youth who has put together this highly personal exercise on something or...

Genre: Music

Cast: Dick Fontaine

Utitlising humour, fantasy, animation, poetry and theatrics, Hochman and her crew challenge the male establishment for ignoring the first meeting of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sandra Hochman

Norman Mailer frankly discusses American culture, politics, literature, and his own tumultuous life.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Norman Mailer

Though Henry Kissinger is often giving short statements to the media, he refuses detailed interviews about his own life. Now he has agreed to answer...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Henry Kissinger

In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel: "Deep Throat," starring Linda Lovelace. This film would...

Genre: History

Cast: Dennis Hopper

A documentary about the film, I am Curious-Yellow (1967), and how it made it into the USA and changed film in USA forever by breaking the USA...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Börje Ahlstedt

A contrarian and wickedly funny man, this PBS American Masters special explores Gore Vidal's extraordinary life and work, joining him at his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gore Vidal

Malga Kubiak stars in her exploration of sex and self. One woman's love to her own body interlaced with maggots; mixes x-rated porn. Voyeuristically...

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Cast: Blixa Bargeld

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Donald Trump

Norman Mailer profiles life in America since the Second World War. Farewell to the Fifties. Mailer fought for his country in the Second World War- an...

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Cast: Norman Mailer

CREMASTER 2 (1999) is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Norman Mailer

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Timothy Leary

Newly discovered interviews with friends of Truman Capote made by Paris Review co-founder George Plimpton invigorate this fascinating documentary on...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Truman Capote

Pauline Kael (1919–2001) was undoubtedly one of the greatest names in film criticism. A Californian native, she wrote her first review in 1953...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pauline Kael

After Lee Strasberg’s death in 1982, the most prestigious talents from the Actors Studio assumed the leadership of this exceptional...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ellen Burstyn