John Waters
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John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, writer, actor, and artist. He rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films, including Multiple Maniacs (1970), Pink Flamingos (1972) and Female Trouble (1974). Waters wrote and directed the comedy film Hairspray (1988), which was later adapted into a hit Broadway musical and a 2007 musical film. Other films he has written and directed include Desperate Living (1977), Polyester (1981), Cry-Baby (1990), Serial Mom (1994), Pecker (1998), and Cecil B. Demented (2000). His films contain elements of…
Filmography
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Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
2026
Kevin
2026
Gays Against Guns
2026
Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh
2025
TURA!
2025
Velvet Vision: The Story of James Bidgood and the Making of Pink Narcissus
2025
It's Dorothy!
2025
A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard
2025
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
2025
As Time Goes By
2024
Doc of Chucky
2024
Scala!!!
2024
Lynch/Oz
2023
Little Richard: I Am Everything
2023
Digman!
2023
Don't Fall in Love with Yourself
2022
Fragments of Paradise
2022
Living with Chucky
2022
The Book of Harth
2022
Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
2022
Tell Me Iggy
2022
The Andy Warhol Diaries
2022
Blood, Guts and Sunshine: The History of Horror Made in Florida
2021
The Velvet Underground
2021
Chucky
2021
Pride
2021
The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo
2020
Helluva Boss
2020
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
2020
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
2020
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
2020
Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes
2020
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
At the Video Store
2019
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
2019
Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’
2019
Mugworth
2018
Liverspots and Astronots
2018
Crime and Beauty: Making ‘Female Trouble’
Crime and Beauty: Making ‘Female Trouble’
2018
Female Trouble: On-Set Footage
2018
Explained
2018
Sickies Making Films
2018
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
2017
FEUD
2017
Mansfield 66/67
2017
Search Party
2016
Wall Writers
2016
In Conversation With Director John Waters, Actress Kathleen Turner and Actress Mink Stole
2016
Whatever Happened to Gelitin
2016
The New Yorker Presents
2016
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
2015
Sympathy for the Devil: The True Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment
2015
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story
2015
Tab Hunter Confidential
2015
Suburban Gothic
2014
The Last Impresario
2014
Clarence
2014
I Am Divine
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
2014
Jingle Bell Rocks!
2013
The Blacklist
2013
RuPaul Drives...
RuPaul Drives...
2013
Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open
2013
The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies
2013
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
2012
Excision
2012
Mansome
2012
Finding Your Roots
2012
The Advocate for Fagdom
2011
Blank City
2011
Mangus!
2011
These Amazing Shadows
2011
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010
Fish Hooks
2010
Offspring
2010
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
2010