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68
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3.6
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98
/47/
79
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77
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cc age 14+

Hairspray (1988)
'Pleasantly plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Collins Dance Show. Now a teen hero, she starts using her fame to speak out for the causes she believes in, most of all integration. In doing so, she earns the wrath of the show's former star, Amber Von Tussle, as well as Amber's manipulative, pro-segregation parents. The rivalry comes to a head as Amber and Tracy vie for the title of Miss Auto Show 1963.
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77
75
7.1
/11533/
72
/301/
68
/210/
3.9
/46230/
90
/31/
85
/539/

Female Trouble (1974)
Dawn Davenport progresses from a teenage nightmare hell-bent on getting cha-cha heels for Christmas to a fame monster whose egomaniacal impulses land her in the electric chair.
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72
7.0
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70
/238/
70
/182/
3.8
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93
/30/
81
/412/
72
/12/

Polyester (1981)
Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine Fishpaw turns to the bottle as her life falls apart -- until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow. Originally screened with "Odorama" scratch and sniff cards so the audience could (at their own risk) smell along with the film.
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69
6.5
/68120/
68
/1737/
65
/1546/
3.3
/113393/
73
/63/
77
/8461/
63
/22/
cc age 13+

Cry-Baby (1990)
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
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66
6.5
/5059/
66
/147/
63
/111/
3.6
/25848/
100
/23/
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Multiple Maniacs (1970)
The Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling freak show, acts as a front for Divine, who is out for blood after discovering her lover's affair.
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66
6.8
/37334/
71
/1214/
67
/745/
3.8
/92597/
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/56/
72
/1360/
64
/24/
cc age 18+

Serial Mom (1994)
Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics.
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6.0
/30388/
62
/788/
62
/535/
3.5
/111183/
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/49/
72
/1662/
47
/10/

Pink Flamingos (1972)
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
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64
7.0
/6459/
67
/148/
64
/113/
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/14560/
70
/10/
80
/280/

Desperate Living (1977)
After killing her husband, Peggy Gravel and her murderous maid Grizelda wind up in the crazy town of Mortville, where Queen Carlotta presides over a sleazy collection of misfits.
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Kanopy
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6.3
/15590/
67
/212/
60
/200/
3.4
/16663/
52
/46/
64
/518/
65
/24/

Pecker (1998)
A Baltimore teenager who picks up a second-hand camera starts snapping his way to stardom, soon turning into a nationwide sensation, with a fateful choice between his life and his art.
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6.3
/17780/
66
/332/
63
/287/
3.9
/39920/
53
/81/
67
/561/
57
/32/

Cecil B. Demented (2000)
A young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists kidnap a Hollywood movie goddess and force her to star in their radical underground movie.
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Hoopla
51
5.1
/14122/
55
/448/
53
/290/
3.1
/12295/
55
/113/
51
/790/
56
/34/

A Dirty Shame (2004)
Sylvia Stickles runs a convenience store with her husband and mother-in-law. One day, Sylvia is hit on the head and transforms from an uptight prude to a sex-crazed lunatic. As she goes on a rampage through town, Sylvia attracts the attention of Ray Ray, a sexual healer and tow truck driver in search of the world's greatest orgasm. Their sexual revolution, however, causes a class war in their tiny Baltimore community.
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38
5.8
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56
/30/
50
/36/
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/7/
53
/25/
50
/4/

Mondo Trasho (1969)
A day in the lives of a hit-and-run driver and her victim, and the bizarre things that happen to them before and after they collide (sexual assault by a crazed foot-fetishist, visions of the Virgin Mary, strange chicken-foot grafting operations).
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17
5.8
/570/
51
/10/
50
/21/
3.0
/1106/
47
/6/

The Diane Linkletter Story (1970)
This improvised film is based on the true-life suicide of TV personality Art Linkletter's daughter, Diane. Mr. and Mrs. Linkletter fret about their daughter's recent behaviour, which includes taking drugs and dating a lowlife named Jim. Eventually, the parents confront Diane… with tragic consequences.
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5.7
/76/
10
/2/
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/1/

Kiddie Flamingos (2015)
Child actors perform a 'kid-friendly' table read version of John Water's notorious 1972 X-rated cult classic film, Pink Flamingos.
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48
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7.0
/112/
10
/1/
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Roman Candles (1967)
Shot on 8mm, and featuring the introduction of Divine, John Waters' sophomore film is a plotless collage of random incidents involving sex, drugs, religion and The Wizard of Oz, it was shown with an equally random soundtrack mixing “obnoxious radio advertisements, rock 'n' roll and press conferences with Lee Harvey Oswald's mother”. It was shown three times publicly, but never released commercially.
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46
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5.4
/86/
30
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40
/3/
3.1
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Dorothy, the Kansas City Pot Head (1968)
An incomplete project, Dorothy the Kansas City Pothead stars John Waters' long-time casting agent Pat Moran in the role of Dorothy.
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7.0
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55
/2/
71
/9/

Eat Your Makeup (1968)
John Waters' first sixteen-millimetre film, about a deranged nanny who kidnaps young girls and forces them to 'model themselves to death' in front of her boyfriend and their crazed friends. It was never shown commercially.
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46
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6.1
/160/
10
/1/
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/6/

Hag in a Black Leather Jacket (1964)
The lurid wedding of a black man and white girl, with a Ku Klux Klansman performing the wedding ceremony. John Waters' first film, made on 8mm, given one showing (making back its budget of thirty dollars) before being retired to his closet.
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49
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5.1
/105/
27
/4/
53
/6/
3.2
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30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing (2019)
Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.


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