MyMovies: Must See

Friends Forever (the band) never plays inside any rock clubs. Instead, they play inside their van outside the club to stunned bystanders. Nate (drums), Josh (guitar), Jen (their lighting girl) and three dogs don?t think twice about traveling hundreds of miles across the country to play one 15-minute show in a loading zone. Friends Forever (the documentary) captures their smoke-spewing, generator-powered rock world, and the tour that has them crisscrossing the U.S. in search of the perfect parking spot. No audience is too small, or too baffled, to skimp on the performance when you?re on "a mission to save rock."

Documentary about the music group They Might Be Giants.

The history of the American government's war on marijuana in the 20th century.

Documentary covering the growth and subsequent overexposure of the Seattle "grunge" music scene in the early 90s

It's the day before Christmas, the day before John's 21st birthday. He's a prostitute on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A., and he wants to spend that night and the next day at the posh Park Plaza Hotel. He's ripped off a local drug dealer to pay the bill, but as he's sleeping that morning, someone steals his shoes right off his feet, with the money in them. Meanwhile, Donner, a lad new to the streets, wants John to leave the city with him for Camelot, a theme park in Branson, MO, where they'll work as lifeguards. John spends the day trying to hustle the money for the hotel, avoid Jimmy the Warlock, keep his girl friend placated, and figure out how to deal with Donner's friendship.

A documentary on the life of Kurt Cobain and his relationship with Courtney Love.

A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

A retired shrimper enlists the help of fellow colorful trailer park residents to make a B-grade horror film.

While rugged individualism is widely celebrated in the United States, such respect is seldom accorded to society's marginalized outsiders. This documentary paints an unusual portrait of one man's quest for personal freedom and its consequences by following a resourceful, middle-aged scavenger who has chosen to live in the woods near downtown Orlando.

No plot here, just a collection of lip-synched videos from some of the bands that were part of the "British Invasion" in 1964: The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Peter and Gordon, and the Spencer Davis Group (with Steve Winwood). The film also features bookend live performances by The Beatles.

A young British punk and roadie for The Clash navigates life in socially torn 1970s England.

Nonfiction filmmaker Jill Morley documents her exploration of the exotic dancer (stripper) experience. Through tactfully selected and edited sequences, you get an insider's view into the job itself, how clubs chauffeur dancers, protect them, what's required of them, how much money they can make, tricks that dancers use to make more money, and keep clients at bay. By trying to work as a dancer, Morley gives the viewer a very personal perspective on the experience. Long-time professional dancers reveal personal anecdotes and feelings about how the job effects them in candid, personal interviews. A group discussion with several dancers is likewise illuminating.

Threats, vandalism and assault...over waves? This film looks beyond surfing's idyllic face, showing how many "surfers are junkies and they need their fix." In this short film we learn about surfing etiquette, "Nazi surfers," and "Localism" # a form of surfer tribalism.

Yanks Tanks is a first look at the phenomenon of classic American cars in Cuba. Like an exotic, endangered species, these colorful cars roam around this island paradise trapped in a 1950's time warp. As beacons of individuality in a sea of government conformity they represent freedom for those who own them. Owners who will do almost anything to keep them running. Seeing these old cars in recent films and photographs one wonders how they have maintained them after decades with no spare parts and an embargo by the United States. After repeated trips to Cuba, the Schendel brothers succeed in taking a close look into the underground world of Cuban cars, finding along the way a gallery of eccentric characters - the curators of the largest, living, automobile museum in the world.

Follows Miami Northwestern High School's football team through their 2001 season, highlighting players' struggles on and off the field, their hopes for success, and the team's pursuit of championships.

While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty...

A woman and her lover are tortured and killed by her sadistic husband. The pair return from the grave to seek vengeance.

An exotic dancer is disfigured in a car accident. A scientist develops a treatment that restores her beauty. To preserve her appearance the doctor must give her additional treatments using glands taken from murdered women.

An insurance salesman arrives at a creepy mansion to discover his potential eccentric millionaire client already dead. Instead he gets embroiled in a house full of greedy, murderous relatives competing for the inheritance.

A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.

Decent, simple, honest Chinese farmhand and ace martial artist Tai-Lin goes to the Philippines to seek his fortune. He befriends scruffy petty street hoodlum Siao-Mao and gets a job as a dock worker. When Tai-Lin discovers that the people he works for are involved in a crime syndicate that specializes in smuggling opium, he quits his job and joins forces with two fellow martial artists against the evil organization.

The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.

A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them.

A newly-wed woman believes the ghost of her husband's deceased first wife is haunting her at an eerie Southern mansion.

A film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde starlet, and bring him back to New York City.