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Todd Haynes

Todd Haynes

Todd Haynes (born January 2, 1961) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Movies Made By Todd Haynes (38)

Earthlings (2025)

Tom Chen, an affluent Chinese American, decides to celebrate the anniversary of his divorce with a dinner party. When his intended guests cancel, he impulsively invites the two Mexican day laborers, Javier and Diego, who are working in his yard, to join hi ...

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May December (2023)

Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past. ...

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Image Book (2023)

When asked to create something for the "Où en êtes-vous?" ("Where Are You?") collection commissioned and posed by the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Haynes's response was this behind-the-scenes film made during the production of May December, which evokes Ing ...

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Cal State Long Beach, CA, January 2020 (2021)

A wordless portrait of sculptor Jessica Jackson Hutchins shows us the artist in the process of transforming clay into uncanny forms. ...

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The Velvet Underground (2021)

Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era's avant-garde spirit by Todd Haynes, this kaleidoscopic oral history combines exclusive interviews with dazzling archival footage. ...

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Dark Waters (2019)

A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth. ...

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Earthquake Bird (2019)

Tokyo, Japan, 1989. Lucy Fly, a foreigner who works as a translator, begins a passionate relationship with Teiji, a mysterious man obsessed with photography. ...

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Wonderstruck (2017)

The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection. ...

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Certain Women (2016)

Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a l ...

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Carol (2015)

In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman. ...

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Still Alice (2014)

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested. ...

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Night Moves (2014)

The story about three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam. ...

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Six by Sondheim (2013)

This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs. ...

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Buoy (2013)

A married mother of two, unexpectedly pregnant with her third child, answers the phone to hear a voice from her distant past, reconnecting with the central, though neglected, emotional anchor in her life. In the span of an 80-minute conversation, the two t ...

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Meek's Cutoff (2011)

A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions. ...

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Wendy and Lucy (2008)

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it. ...

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I'm Not There (2007)

Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself. ...

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Quinceañera (2006)

As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin. ...

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Old Joy (2006)

Soon to be a father, Mark feels the pressure of domestic responsibility closing in, so he is more than happy to accept when his old friend Kurt proposes a camping trip in the Oregon wilderness. During their time together, the men come to grips with the cha ...

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Far from Heaven (2002)

In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society. ...

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Madame Satã (2002)

In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro of the 1930s, João Francisco dos Santos is several things — son of slaves, ex-convict, thug, homosexual and adopted father for a number of pariahs. João expresses himself on the stage of a cabaret as Madame Satã. ...

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Velvet Goldmine (1998)

Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an investigative journalist is on assignment to uncover the truth behind his former idol. ...

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Office Killer (1997)

When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder can quench the lone ...

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Safe (1995)

Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis. ...

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Totally F***ed Up (1994)

Gay, alienated Los Angeles teens have a hard time as their parents kick them out of their homes, they don't have money, their lovers cheat, and they are harassed by gay-bashers. ...

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Dottie Gets Spanked (1993)

A six-year-old boy in pre-hippie 1960s United States endures ridicule from his schoolmates and worry from his father over his fixation with a TV star named Dottie. ...

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Goo (1991)

In 1991, a long-form music video version of Goo was released on VHS and LaserDisc. A music video for each song from the album was included; the track listing was identical to that of the original album. ...

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Poison (1991)

A trio of interweaved transgressive tales, telling a bizarre stories of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice, a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague, and the obsessive sexual relationship between two prison inmates. ...

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Anemone Me (1990)

The only black American family in Maine has a son, a blind bodybuilder, who falls in love with a white "mer-boy. ...

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La Divina (1989)

Brooke Dammkoehler's meditation on the rise to stardom of a glamorous movie idol (modelled after Greta Garbo), draped in gorgeous black & white photography and a tone of delirious grandeur. ...

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He Was Once (1989)

This bizarre parody of the animated religious children's show Davey and Goliath uses actors but looks like Claymation because of the stop motion, distorted voices, giant prosthetic ears and hair and sets that make Pee-Wee's Playhouse look realistic. Davey' ...

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Natural History (1989)

The parents of an adult infant named "Child", played by Todd Haynes, attempt to expel him from their home, by casting magical spell seen in a television documentary about Malaysian rites of passage. ...

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Cause and Effect (1988)

Ordinary people of both sexes, and of varying ages, races and ethnicities, tell stories that sound familiar. But each is a construct to plumb reality in a considered, theoretical, and, ultimately, playful fashion, as Delson continues the filmic experimenta ...

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Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987)

The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls. ...

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Tommy's (1985)

A state employee tasked with photographing road conditions tracks a mysterious man (played by Steve Buscemi) who leaves suspiciously large garbage bags along a snowy country road. ...

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Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud (1985)

The violent love between poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine. ...

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A Man in Your Room (1984)

A priest wakes repeatedly from a dream in which he sees attractive, partially-disrobed man in his room. The hypnotic repetition and anxiety of his vision gains tension from the minimalist score. ...

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The Suicide (1978)

A young boy, abandoned by his father and supported by a blindly optimistic mother, struggles to fit in at his new school. ...

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Movies Starring Todd Haynes (16)

Art-House America: Austin Film Society (2023)

Founded by Richard Linklater in 1985 as a screening series dedicated to bringing experimental and art cinema to the city of Austin, Texas, the Austin Film Society has grown into a cornerstone of the city's creative community - while remaining true to its e ...

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Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair (2022)

An investigative portrait of the master of cinematic melodrama, Douglas Sirk. His life was the ultimate melodrama, from which all his films were inspired. Through the testimonies of those closest to him and the unpublished accounts in his wife's diary, we ...

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Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a Hero (2019)

This piece examines real-life Rob Bilott's sacrifices to take down a powerful corporation and how a single individual can impact an entire community. Cast and filmmakers discuss the importance of telling this story and empowering whistle-blowers. ...

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At the Video Store (2019)

Equal parts personal essay, intense rumination, and playful satire, this movie laments the death of the American Video Store while it searches for the missing human element in today's digital landscape. ...

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Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible (2016)

Actors Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Monia Chokri, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Niels Schneider and Melvil Poupaud discuss working with the young Canadian director Xavier Dolan, who has conquered the hearts of both cinema lovers and prestigious festiva ...

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Great Directors (2009)

Features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. The film documents Ismai ...

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Notes on the Death of Kodachrome (2007)

Jennifer Montgomery tracks down three old friends (Joe Westmoreland, Lisa Cholodenko, and Todd Haynes) who borrowed and never returned pieces of her super-8 film equipment. ...

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Infinite Pleasure: Todd Haynes on Max Ophuls' Le Plaisir (2006)

Filmmaker Todd Haynes talks about Max Ophuls' 1952 film Le Plaisir. ...

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Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006)

A chronological look at films by, for, or about gays and lesbians in the United States, from 1947 to 2005, Kenneth Anger's "Fireworks" to "Brokeback Mountain". Talking heads, anchored by critic and scholar B. Ruby Rich, are interspersed with an advancing t ...

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Eine Zärtlichkeit wie bei Sirk - Todd Haynes über Fassbinder und das Melodram (2006)

In his film "Far From Heaven", Todd Haynes refers very respectfully to Douglas Sirk's "All that Heaven Allows". Fassbinder was also strongly influenced by Sirk's work. Haynes now explains this double fascination. ...

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At Sundance (1995)

A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew Harrison, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Todd Haynes, Greg Araki, Abel Ferrara, Atom Egoyan, James Gray, Robert Redford, Haskell Wexler, among many others. Co-directe ...

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Swoon (1992)

Teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on life. They spend afternoons breaking into storefronts and engaging in petty crimes, until the calculating Nathan ups the ante by kidnapping, and murdering, ...

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He Was Once (1989)

This bizarre parody of the animated religious children's show Davey and Goliath uses actors but looks like Claymation because of the stop motion, distorted voices, giant prosthetic ears and hair and sets that make Pee-Wee's Playhouse look realistic. Davey' ...

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Natural History (1989)

The parents of an adult infant named "Child", played by Todd Haynes, attempt to expel him from their home, by casting magical spell seen in a television documentary about Malaysian rites of passage. ...

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Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987)

The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls. ...

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Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud (1985)

The violent love between poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine. ...

Watch Now