Paul Bartel

In 1963, a paranoid middle-class couple locks themselves and their small kids in their nuclear fallout shelter. 30 years later, their oblivious son and two daughters still survive there playing absurd games. A play-based dark comedy. (imdb)

Divorcee Lisabeth Hepburn-Savarian (Woronov) moves in with very recently-widowed Clare (Bissett) while her house is being fumigated, and the chauffeur of one (Sharkey) makes a bet with the houseboy of the other (Beltran) as to which will bed the other's employer first. An assortment of friends and relatives--not to mention the ghost of the deceased--show up for the wake and the games are most definitely on. (timon88)

Four smalltime gamblers get a hot tip and try to raise enough money to bet big.

A group of unscrupulous characters seek buried treasure in the old west.

Tabloid reporter Lois Thornedyke and her photographer Barry Denver stumble upon evidence of a sex scandal, blackmail, and political conspiracy that may involve her love interest, the saintly Mayor of New York City. (imdb)

A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discover a bizarre, if not murderous way to get funding for opening a restaurant. (imdb)

This is another story of the secret Coast to Coast auto race across America The only rule is, the first to finish is the winner. Naturally, anyone driving 55 isn't going to win. They'll need to drive a little faster than that. Well actually, they will need to drive a LOT faster that 55. (imdb)

A champion of a brutal cross-country car race of the future where pedestrians are run down for points... (imdb)

When Cheryl and her roommate quarrel, Cheryl moves into her aunt's skid-row hotel in downtown L.A. rather than return home to Ohio. The lodgers are odd, Aunt Martha is a moralizer obsessed with funerals, murder is afoot, and the inexperienced and trusting Cheryl may be the next victim. (imdb)

If you read even the briefest summary of Naughty Nurse, you already know too much. Suffice to say it's about a nurse on her lunch break, and she doesn't do much eating. Not as substantial as The Secret Cinema but nearly as much fun, Nurse points the way toward Bartel's even kinkier Private Parts. (Surreal Moviez)

Almost 30 years before Peter Weir brought us The Truman Show, cinematic cult figure Paul Bartel (of Eating Raoul and Lust in the Dust fame) was the 30-year-old auteur of this half-hour film, a somewhat sleazy bit of surrealism on a similar subject. Amy Vane plays a woman whose every move is recorded on film. She didn't ask for this scrutiny: the woman is the victim of a voyeuristic director, who contrives to hide cameras wherever she goes and show the results in a theater. (Surreal Moviez)