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Bill Gunn
Writer 1934 - 1989

Bill Gunn

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Bill Gunn was an American playwright, novelist, actor and film director. His 1973 cult classic horror film Ganja and Hess was chosen as one of ten best American films of the decade at the Cannes Film Festival, 1973. In the New Yorker, film critic Richard Brody described him as... Read full bio →

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6 titles
Losing Ground

Losing Ground

Kathleen Collins 1982 1h 26m

Sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the city, straining their rocky relationship.

Personal Problems

Personal Problems

Bill Gunn 1980 2h 45m

An “experimental soap opera” centered on a Harlem nurse, her husband, her father-in-law, and her lover.

Ganja & Hess

Ganja & Hess

Bill Gunn 1973 1h 53m 5.0

After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.

Penelope

Penelope

Arthur Hiller 1966 1h 38m 6.0

Comedy about a flighty, bored, kleptomaniac wife of a banker who robs her husband's bank of $60,000.

The Spy with My Face

The Spy with My Face

John Newland 1965 1h 28m

Napoleon Solo is captured by Thrush and replaced with a double.

The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury

Martin Ritt 1959 1h 50m

1959 adaptation of the Faulkner novel, directed by Martin Ritt and starring Yul Brynner, Joanne Woodward, Jack Warden, Ethel Waters, Sturt Whitman.

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