Amos Poe Movies

A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York's waning punk scene.

A man's family comes for his 77th birthday and while he loves all of his children and their children, he and his children don't exactly connect....

A group of unemployed theater actors survive by working as illegal money collectors. The loan shark they are working for owns an Off-Broadway...

The cream of the New York new wave/punk crop, filmed live at CBGB when the scene was just beginning. Includes performances by Patti Smith, Blondie,...

In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire...

The life of a woman is transformed after she is diagnosed with a terminal disease, fired from her job and abandoned by her boyfriend. Given two...

This is Poe and Král's first effort, shot on small-gauge stock, before their more well-known endeavor The Blank Generation (1976) came to be....

Two friends vie for the attention of a stranger who passes out at their doorstep.

A French special op suffers an existential crisis as he wanders New York City in search of a mission and the requisite connections.

In the midst of an evacuation effort, True World Forces agent Weed must secure an alien spacecraft suspected to have crashed somewhere in the city....

A New York City drug dealer decides to get out of the business, but has to flee from mobsters.

The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been...

A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down.

Sketched loosely, the narrative of Poe's first feature is as scrappy and paper-thin as its protagonist Rico, a self-styled loner in New York City...

From 1978 to 1982, Glenn O'Brien hosted a New York city public access cable TV show called TV Party. Co-hosted by Chris Stein, from Blondie, and...

A new translation of Dante's Divine Comedy channeling the tools of Edward Muybridge and a meditation on the perception of motion in a motion picture.

A documentary about the influential independent film production company The Shooting Gallery.

A musical documentary film about the politically minded singer/songwriter Steve Earle.

A woman, Nadja, searches for her sister's murderer. This search goes through differing moments of reality, or unreality, that overlap within facets...

A Walk In The Park is, in the words of its protagonist Brian Fass, “a science fiction film, a psychedelic journey back to the womb...”...