Frank Birney

The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards (2015)

Seven vignettes explore the difference between fantasy and reality, memory and history, and the joy and agony of the human condition. ...

This Is How You Die (2013)

What if a machine could tell you cryptically, but with 100% accuracy, how you are going to die? ...

Batman Puppet Master (2012)

Wicked Lake (2008)

Two clans of deranged males make the mistake of stalking four young women they assume to be easy prey, only to find out that at the stroke of midnight the tables will be turned and all hell will break loose. ...

Power Play (2002)

An investigative reporter links the deaths of three people to a high profile corporation, while scientists working on their privately funded research project are forced to look beyond their work and face realitytheir experiments may be the cause of a serie ...

The Christmas Wish (1998)

Returning to his home town after the death of the grandfather who raised him, slick and cynical Wall Street trader Will Martin feels decidedly out of place, and not at all in tune with the Christmas preparations being made by the local citizenry. But Will ...

Inferno (1998)

When a huge fireball hurtles towards the Earth the authorities have only hours to react before temperatures soar beyond human tolerance. ...

Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998)

After growing up poor in Salmonella, Vincenzo Cortino installs himself as the preeminent, if bumbling, Mafia don of the New World. But now he must pass on power to one of his two sons: either level-headed veteran Anthony or vituperative loose cannon Joey. ...

Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996)

This film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her sex star pinnacle and back down. She moves from lover to lover in order to further her career. She finds fame but never happiness, only knowing seduction but not love. ...

Yesterday's Target (1996)

Memory loss, separation and assassins threaten three time-travelers with special powers who are stuck in the past. ...

Reflections on a Crime (1994)

Seven years ago, Regina (Mimi Rogers) was tried for the death. On the night before she becomes the first woman in over 40 years to be executed in a federal penitentiary, she befriends the lone, curious prison guard Colin Reeves (Billy Zane), who has been a ...

Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth (1993)

A rescue team is looking for survivors in a sinking building after a devastating earthquake. ...

Dave (1993)

A sweet-natured Temp Agency operator and amateur Presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret Service to become a temporary stand-in for the President of the United States. ...

The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them (1992)

David seriously fancies smart, rich Carrie as soon as he first offends her in a Boston bar. They run into each other again and though she still finds him appalling, David manages to change her mind. ...

Jennifer Eight (1992)

John Berlin, a big-city cop from LA moves to a small-town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his colleagues, Berlin meets a young blind woman named Helena, whom he is attracted to. Meanwhile, a ser ...

Critters 3 (1991)

As fanged, furious furballs viciously invade an L.A. apartment building and sink their teeth into the low-rent tenants, Josh leads the battle to beat back the conniving critters and save the planet. ...

The Heroes of Desert Storm (1991)

The first Iraq war saw many tragedies and acts of heroism. This is the story seen through the eyes of the men and women involved. ...

Don't Touch My Daughter (1991)

A young girl is kidnapped and molested by a classmate's father. The man she identifies is arrested and jailed, but is later released on bail. He calls the girl's mother and threatens to kidnap her daughter again, and this time kill her and make sure her bo ...

Angel of Death (1990)

Escaped convict Gary Nicholson falls in love becomes obsessed with artist Laura Hendricks. He vows to protect her and her six-year-old son from any and all antagonists. ...

C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud (1989)

A military experiment to create a race of super-warriors goes awry, as legions of murderous zombies are unleashed upon a suburban neighborhood. ...

Lucky Stiff (1988)

Ron Douglas has no luck in women. After his bride runs away on their wedding day, he goes on holiday up in the mountains and finds himself wrapped up in a bizarre series of events after attending a dinner party turned deadly. ...

The Betty Ford Story (1987)

This biographical film was based on the book The Times of My Life written by Chris Chase and Betty Ford. ...

Bad Guys (1986)

Two LA cops turn to professional wrestling for money and revenge after being suspended from the force for a bar brawl. ...

The Jerk, Too (1984)

Navin Johnson heads to Los Angeles to attend the wedding of his pen pal, Marie. On the way, he runs across a gang of hobos whose leader, Diesel, takes him to Las Vegas after learning of his skills at poker. ...

Mr. Mom (1983)

Jack and Caroline are a couple making a decent living when Jack suddenly loses his job. They agree that he should stay at home and look after the house while Caroline works. It's just that he's never done it before, and really doesn't have a clue... ...

The Discipline of D.E. (1982)

"The Discipline of D.E." is a short 16mm film directed by Gus Van Sant. It's based on a story in "Exterminator!" by William Burroughs that at times reads like Buddhist noir: "DE is a way of doing. DE simply means doing whatever you do in the easiest most ...

Pray TV (1982)

A newly ordained minister accepts a summer job with a dynamic TV evangelist only to find deep conflicts between the latter's conventional activities servicing his community's spiritual needs and his power wielded as a TV celebrity. ...

Modern Problems (1981)

Jealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fielder, recently dumped by his girlfriend, comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power of telekinesis, which he uses to not only win her back, but to gain a little revenge. ...

Return of the Rebels (1981)

An aging motorcycle gang assembles for a 25-year reunion to help out former member Mary Beth, a widowed operator of a popular campground which is being threatened by a band of arrogant groupies. ...

Miracle on Ice (1981)

The story of the 1980 United States Olympic hockey players, a group of amateurs from around the country who were whipped into a cohesive unit by controversial coach Herb Brooks to win a gold medal at Lake Placid during the winter games. ...

Fear No Evil (1981)

Brilliant and aloof teenager Andrew is always the butt of his classmates' jokes — but little do they know that he is actually the demon Lucifer. As the evil wells up within him, he avenges himself in acts of demonic murder and destruction. But his foe, t ...

The Babysitter (1980)

Overprotective mother Liz Benedict meets 18-year-old orphan Joanna Redwine and hires her as house help and live-in companion to rambunctious daughter Tara. Liz's husband Jeff isn't too thrilled with the arrangement, and his fears soon prove justified when ...

Portrait of an Escort (1980)

Jordan West is a divorcée who moonlights at a professional dating service to make ends meet. But her secret job causes gossip among her neighbors and trouble at the real estate office where she works in the daytime, while her teenage daughter is the only ...

Child's Play (1980)

A neighborhood boy might have the solution to his problems, though. For two silver candlesticks, he promises to give Conrad a rare, vicious, growling and cunning animal with supernatural abilities, which supposedly was coveted in the past by Egyptian phara ...

Portrait of a Stripper (1979)

A young widow, supporting herself and her pre-teen son by performing as a nightclub dancer, finds the place turned into a strip joint and learns that her father-in-law is trying to prove her an unfit mother. ...

Parts: The Clonus Horror (1979)

An escaped clone tries to expose a government plot to clone everyone and make a perfect society. ...