Paul Morrissey

Paul Morrissey
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 7 (Actor), 21 (Director), 14 (Writer)
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Titles you haven't rated - Actor (7) | Director (21) | Writer (14)
Blood for Dracula
Udo Kier is without a doubt the sickliest of vampires in any director's interpretation of the Bram Stoker tale... (imdb)
Flesh
A man desperate for money and no income, turns prostitute and interplays with a variety of clients and hustlers. -IMDB
Trash
The story of Joe [Dallesandro] and his lover-protector, Holly [Woodlawn], who is something to behold, a comic book Mother Courage who fancies herself as Marlene Dietrich but sounds more like Phil Silvers. (Amazon.com)
Chelsea Girls
Starring many of Warhol's superstars, Chelsea Girls takes place at the Chelsea Hotel, and follows the lives of several of the young women who live there. (paraphrased from wikipedia.org)
Flesh for Frankenstein
Udo Kier is the Baron Frankenstein, attempting to create a new race of humans out of body parts. He wants to mate his male creation to his female creation so he figures he needs the brain of a real lady's man. By mistake, he beheads a man about to enter a monastery to become a monk... (imdb)
Heat
Former child star Joe Davis, reduced to living in a cheap Hollywood motel while struggling for acting jobs, is lusted after by nearly every woman he meets, including Jessica Todd, a tightly wound feminist who has recently come out as a lesbian. When Jessica's mother, Sally, an emotionally needy has-been actress, meets Joe, she moves him into her enormous, tacky mansion as her new boy toy and attempts to get him acting work. (Letterboxd)
I, a Man
Warhol's answer to I, a Woman.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Comedy film spoofing The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Women in Revolt
Candy is an aloof heiress caught in an unhappy relationship with her brother. Jackie is a virginal intellectual who believes women are oppressed in contemporary American society. Holly is a nymphomaniac who has come to loathe men, despite her attraction to them. Together, they join a militant feminist group, P.I.G. (Politically Involved Girls), but their newfound liberation doesn't make them any happier. (IMDB)
Lonesome Cowboys
In the wild wild west, Ramona Alvarez and her perpetually stoned nurse run into five gay cowboys. The seven members of the party desire a handsome male drifter, except for the transvestite sheriff, who can't be bothered about anything but his outfit. All hot & bothered at this point, the cowboys rape Ramona, who subsequently has sex with the drifter and, in the afterglow of sex, wants to form a suicide pact with him. (imdb)
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Donna and Jane are two American hippies, searching for sex and romance in Paris but, mainly, rich husbands. Eventually, Donna finds a perfume industrialist, Michael, who wishes to marry her, providing she will accept sharing his special friendship with local gigolo Max. Drama ensues as Michael changes his mind when meeting Jane, but all is well that ends well. (imdb)
The Loves of Ondine
Ondine is a gay man attempting to re-adjust his sexuality via various encounters with different women. After trying his luck with three women, Ondine becomes a background character in a sequence in which a group of Latin American men, calling themselves The Bananas, engage in a food fight. Ondine then engages in a wrestling match with Joe Dallesandro, who is married to Brigid Berlin. (imdb)
San Diego Surf
Viva and Taylor Mead are a married couple renting an extra beach-house to a group of surfers sent to them by a Mr. Morrissey of La Jolla Realty. Their daughter, Ingrid Superstar, is pregnant and on the hunt for a husband. Mr. Mead, who is gay, tries to pawn her off to one of the surfers. Meanwhile, Viva wants a divorce from her boy-crazy hubby, who wants a surfer of his own. (imdb)
Forty Deuce
A young hustler tries to get drug money by selling a boy to a middle-aged man; his plans are disrupted when the kid dies. (imdb)
Mixed Blood
Brazilian drug dealers in the lower east side of Manhattan start a war with a rival gang of Latino drug dealers. Their soldiers are Latino kids all under 17 because, as Rita La Punta says, "They can kill and not go to jail." The war escalates to include their German heroin supplier, his sexy English girl friend, a Puerto Rican ex-cop, and the Japanese police captain. This movie is about racism, police corruption, junkies and drug dealing. (SurrealMoviez)
I Miss Sonia Henie
I Miss Sonia Henie is the title of a little-known collaborative short from 1972, instigated by Karpo Godina at the Belgrade Film Festival, and pairing Wiseman with such unlikely co-directors as Tinto Brass, Milos Forman, Paul Morrissey, Buck Henry and Dusan Makavejev.) (SurrealMoviez)
Spike of Bensonhurst
Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob, and then goes to a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican part of Brooklyn. (imdb)
Madame Wang\
A KGB agent comes to California to meet Jane Fonda and prepare for a Russian takeover of the US. After losing his papers, he connects with a band of homeless, overweight, and over-the-hill transvestites and becomes a punker in a Chinese restaurant owned by Madame Wang (cineplex.com)
Beethoven\
The eponymous character, Karl Beethoven (Dietmar Prinz), is snatched from his mother's home by egomaniacal composer Ludwig Van Beethoven (Wolfgang Reichmann). It is Beethoven's contention that nephew Karl is in the clutches of a "demon" (his mother!), and that only by taking charge of Karl himself can the composer tap the boy's inherent musical genius. (New York Times)
All Aboard the Dreamland Choo-Choo
This silent film is about a young kid trying to get high. The title comes from a Shirley Temple song Morrissey played along with the film when he projected it in the 1960s. (mubi)
Like Sleep
Like Sleep (1965) - Short Film
A young man and a young woman sat on a sofa and uses the traditional tools to inject some drugs into their veins. They finally look like in sleep or orgasm, each one tripping on his own. In the last shot, both figures are gathered, but their minds definitely left the scene. (KG)