Movies: Projectionist

  • 2022
    Pearl

    Pearl (2022)

    Pearl

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    Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions colli...

    Pearl
  • 1993
    Last Action Hero

    Last Action Hero (1993)

    Last Action Hero

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    After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible cop. Given a magic ticket by a theater manager, he is transported into the film and teams up with the cop to stop a villain who escapes into the real worl...

    Last Action Hero
  • 1924
    Sherlock Jr.

    Sherlock Jr. (1924)

    Sherlock Jr.

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    A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch....

    Sherlock Jr.
  • 2022
    Empire of Light

    Empire of Light (2022)

    Empire of Light

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    The duty manager of a seaside cinema, who is struggling with her mental health, forms a relationship with a new employee on the south coast of England in the 1980s....

    Empire of Light
  • 2008
    Coming Soon

    Coming Soon (2008)

    Coming Soon

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    Two projectionists discover a disturbing film featuring the lynching of a woman. Not only are they troubled by the content of the movie, but strange events befall them following the viewing....

    Coming Soon
  • 1952
    Clash by Night

    Clash by Night (1952)

    Clash by Night

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    An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend....

    Clash by Night
  • 2005
    Cigarette Burns

    Cigarette Burns (2005)

    Cigarette Burns

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    With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screening caused the viewers to become homicidally insane....

    Cigarette Burns
  • 1957
    The Smallest Show on Earth

    The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)

    The Smallest Show on Earth

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    Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. Unfortunately they can't sell it fo...

    The Smallest Show on Earth
  • 1999
    Wishful Thinking

    Wishful Thinking (1999)

    Wishful Thinking

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    A story told from three angles. Max meets Elizabeth; they live together, but when she talks of marriage, he balks. He becomes extremely jealous, probably without cause, and thinks she's taken up with a friend of his, Jack. Elizabeth, stung by Max's r...

    Wishful Thinking
  • 2022
    Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey

    Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey (2022)

    Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey

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    A 'cine-ramic' roller-coaster ride through the rise, fall and re-birth of projected film....

    Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey
  • 2024
    The Projectionist

    The Projectionist (2024)

    The Projectionist

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    Set in the most easterly town in England, Lowestoft, a young Projectionist (Andrew Hooper) must overcome grief and barriers created from his Mother's untimely death, and become the filmmaker she wanted to him to be....

    The Projectionist
  • 1983
    The Serial Rape Murderer

    The Serial Rape Murderer (1983)

    The Serial Rape Murderer

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    12 Years ago, Fuyuko, was 7 years old, watched her sister, a high school student, raped and choked to die. Fuyuko never forgets that the man who killed her sister has a red snake tattoo on his thigh. Suffering from the memory and deeply being traumat...

    The Serial Rape Murderer
  • 2013
    Going Dark: The Final Days of Film Projection

    Going Dark: The Final Days of Film Projection (2013)

    Going Dark: The Final Days of Film Projection

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    Hollywood has made up their minds, forcing theaters to convert to digital or go dark. As theaters around the world change to newer digital technology, the job of the 35mm film projectionist is becoming irrelevant. Going Dark profiles two theater proj...

    Going Dark: The Final Days of Film Projection
  • 2022
    The Diary of a Projectionist

    The Diary of a Projectionist (2022)

    The Diary of a Projectionist

    02022HD

    This is the story of my grandfather, Tiago Florit, who for 50 years was a film operator at the Teatre Principal de Maó, in Menorca. It is a review of his life, from his birth to his death, in a cinematographic key. A true love story to cinema....

    The Diary of a Projectionist
  • 1970
    The Projectionist

    The Projectionist (1970)

    The Projectionist

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    A projectionist bored with his everyday life begins fantasizing about his being one of the superheroes he sees in the movies he shows....

    The Projectionist
  • 2012
    The Last Projectionist

    The Last Projectionist (2012)

    The Last Projectionist

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    When the UK's oldest working cinema opened in 1909, it took five years to train a projectionist - a century later, it takes less than an hour. The Last Projectionist charts the amazing history of UK independent cinema, taking a tour of some of the mo...

    The Last Projectionist
  • 1969
    Whipsers and Shadows

    Whipsers and Shadows (1969)

    Whipsers and Shadows

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    A new projectionist spends her first evening on the job screening short films for an upcoming festival inside an old movie house. As she watches the horror films alone from the projection booth, she begins to feel that she is not alone....

    Whipsers and Shadows
  • 2022
    Reel Stories: An Oral History of London's Projectionists

    Reel Stories: An Oral History of London's Projectionists (2022)

    Reel Stories: An Oral History of London's Projectionists

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    Documentary charting the experiences of projectionists who work or worked in cinemas in London, exploring the skills and dedication required for this unique role, set against changes in technology, society, and entertainment....

    Reel Stories: An Oral History of London's Projectionists
  • 2001
    Der Vorführ-Effekt

    Der Vorführ-Effekt (2001)

    Der Vorführ-Effekt

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    Documentary about film projectionists....

    Der Vorführ-Effekt
  • 1992
    Die auf die Nüsse gehn

    Die auf die Nüsse gehn (1992)

    Die auf die Nüsse gehn

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    Comedy short about working in a movie theater....

    Die auf die Nüsse gehn