Larry Cohen
Known for: Directing
Born: July 15, 1941
Died: March 23, 2019
Place of birth: Kingston, New York, USA
Lawrence George Cohen (July 15, 1941 – March 23, 2019) was an American screenwriter, producer, and director of film and television, best known as a B-movie auteur of horror and science fiction films — often containing police procedural and satirical elements — during the 1970s and 1980s, such as It's Alive (1974), God Told Me To (1976), It Lives Again (1978), The Stuff (1985) and A Return to Salem's Lot (1987). After that, he concentrated mainly on screenwriting, including Phone Booth (2002), Cellular (2004) and Captivity (2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Larry Cohen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Filmography
94 movies · 11 TV shows, newest first
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Masters of the Grind
2023
7.7
In Search of Darkness: Part II
2020
3.0
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
2020
7.5
In Search of Darkness
2019NR
The Fear Is Real
2018
6.4
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
2018
6.0
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
2017
7.8
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
2015
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House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
2013
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Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell
2011
6.7
American Grindhouse
2011
5.3
Messages Deleted
2010
4.1
It's Alive
2009
6.5
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
2009
4.5
The Gambler, The Girl and The Gunslinger
2009
6.6
Tales from the Script
2009
6.4
Connected
2008
4.9
Captivity
2007
7.8
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
2006NR
Welcome to the Big House
2006
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Prohibition Opens the Floodgates
2006
6.0
Hitchcocked!
2006
4.0
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
2006
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Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
2006
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Shooting the Police: Cops on Film
2006
6.3
Pick Me Up
2006
7.0
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005
7.1
Masters of Horror
2005
10.0
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
2004
7.9
100 Scariest Movie Moments
2004
6.4
Cellular
2004
10.0
Celling Out
2004
9.0
Dialing Up "Cellular"
20048.0
Making of Phone Booth
2003
6.9
Phone Booth
2003
6.0
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
3.6
Misbegotten
1998
4.5
The Defenders: Choice of Evils
1998
5.3
Hollywood Rated 'R'
1997
6.8
Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave
1997
4.8
The Ex
1996
5.2
Invasion of Privacy
1996
4.9
Uncle Sam
1996
5.6
Original Gangstas
1996
7.2
Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice
1996
5.0
The Invaders
1995
5.5
The Invaders
1995
5.5
The Expert
1995
5.2
As Good As Dead
1995
5.4
The Tourist
1995
7.0
NYPD Blue
1993
6.2
Body Snatchers
1993
5.7
Guilty as Sin
1993
5.3
Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence
1992
5.9
Maniac Cop 2
1990
5.8
The Ambulance
1990
4.6
Wicked Stepmother
1989
8.0
Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge
1988NR
Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge
1988
6.1
Maniac Cop
1988
5.5
Deadly Illusion
1987
5.9
Best Seller
1987
5.9
A Return to Salem's Lot
1987
5.3
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive
1987
6.2
Spies Like Us
1985
6.0
The Stuff
1985
4.8
Special Effects
1984
4.9
Perfect Strangers
1984
4.7
Scandalous
1984
5.0
Women of San Quentin
1983
5.7
Q
1982
5.7
I, the Jury
1982
4.4
Full Moon High
1981
8.0
See China and Die
1981
5.2
The American Success Company
1980
5.4
It Lives Again
1978NR
Sparrow
1978
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The Case of the Baltimore Girls
1978
5.1
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
1977NR
Calling Doctor Storm, M.D.
1977
5.8
God Told Me To
1976
8.0
Man on the Outside
1975
7.0
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974
6.0
It's Alive
1974
10.0
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
1974
5.5
Hell Up In Harlem
1973
5.9
Black Caesar
1973
7.0
Cool Million
1972
6.2
Bone
1972
4.5
The Manipulator
1971
5.8
In Broad Daylight
1971
5.4
El Condor
1970
6.0
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
1969
4.2
Scream Baby Scream
1969
5.0
The Legend of Custer
1968
6.7
Coronet Blue
1967
6.9
The Invaders
1967
6.4
I Deal in Danger
1966
6.1
Return of the Seven
1966
6.8
Branded
1965
10.0
Espionage
1963
7.3
The Fugitive
1963
6.3
The Defenders
1961
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Maniac Cop
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Delusion
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