Elaine May Movies

The Fabulous Fifties, CBS, combines style, humor, and imagination. It was rich in touches of quality showmanship and equally rich in the memories of...

Snapshots of the tumults of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is...

A Bach recording plays in a New York apartment, while off-screen a man and a woman in bed together for the first time engage in pseudo-intellectual...

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

A documentary made for the PBS program American Masters about the comedy team Nichols and May.

A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.

An aging publisher becomes a demon wolf and, with this newfound youthful vigor, fights to keep his job.

A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen partner agree to put up a false heterosexual front so that their son can introduce them to his...

When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy Michaels – in order to land a part in a...

After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell.

The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

A machinist's apprentice in Depression-era New York, David dreams of becoming the new Ronald Colman. Defying the wishes of his parents, David lands a...

With charm and wit, Nichols discusses his life and 50-year career as a performer and director.

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical...

Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him...

Struggling comic Lance Barton knows what it's like to die on stage. But when his life takes an unexpected turn - straight to heaven - Lance is sure...

Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Desperate and terrified,...

After her husband loses his job, Marianne moves from Beverly Hills to a nightmare New York City. She hires ditzy psychic Reva to redecorate her...

Depressed by the direction his life is taking, Harry decides to take his own life by jumping off the Manhattan Bridge. At the last minute he's...