Mike Kuchar Movies

This movie was made mostly in Brooklyn during some very hot and empty evenings. Since the evenings were so empty, Jane Elford, the star, urged me to...

Starring George Kuchar as "Hunk", Mrs. Ruby B. Davis as "Aunt Ruth", and introducing Melinda McDowell as the much-abused, sex bomb "Goldenrod".

A House Wife's hum-drum world dissolves away into a thorny Passion Play of miraculous visions.

Things "go bump in broad daylight" as archetypical characters romp about in a sunny forest...doll like things and beast men.

(1959) Color, Sound, 25 min.

“LUST FOR ECSTASY is my most ambitious attempt since my last film…. I wrote many of the pungent scenes on the D train, and when I...

A music-filled tour of Christmas good cheer overtakes this gastronomically oriented excursion through the winter season of discontent and yuletime...

Based on a short story by Charles Bukowski from the collection "Tales of Ordinary Madness."

Portrait of siblings George and Mike Kuchar, who have made a name for themselves in the US underground scene with low-budget films.

He peels away layers of secrets to you for what you are, and he likes scars because they tell stories.

The Shadow Glass is roughly based on Ewers' 'Student of Prague'. It concerns a young man who, feeling incapable of surmounting the harsh realities of...

A topsy-turvy romp.

Mike Kuchar'ss lyrical portrait of everyday life, from making art to making love, all as the Vietnam War rages.

An eclectic compilation of home movies and early cinematic experiments. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film...

The film combines teenage lust and deranged delinquency to create a cautionary tale for the ages.

A lady alone amid the flowers of a garden becomes the target of mischievous elements therein.

Sort of a portrait of the videomaker Anne McQuire, who surfaces midway from this waterlogged landscape of El Nino disasters to dispense charm and...

A documentary portrait of filmmaker George Kuchar conducting a tour of his apartment where he displays memorabilia and his toys which were used for...

[A] cautionary tale about past-their-prime thespians caught up in a typically Kucharian vortex of madness. - Anthology Film Archives

A behind-the-scenes look at the man behind the trophy and the poisons that taint an otherwise jubilant jamboree.