AFI Popular Movie

First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born...

genus: Horror

cast: Jack Nance

To escape neglect and abuse from his parents, a young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.

genus: Animation

cast: Dorothy McGinnis

Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and...

genus: Documentary

cast: Peter Coyote

A documentary about the life and films of director John Ford.

genus: Documentary

cast: Orson Welles

Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips...

genus: Documentary

cast: Ernest R. Dickerson

Marty is not comfortable showing his body at college or private. He is suffering from a skin disease called nevus flammeus. In town he stumbles on...

genus: Drama

cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh

After missing his wife's phone call goodbye on the morning of September 11th, a now listless and brokenhearted music teacher must harmonize with his...

genus: Drama

cast: Charlie Shotwell

A naive young girl becomes the target of a murderous sociopath when she attempts to reinvent herself to impress the boys in her small Texas town.

genus: Drama

cast: Molly McIntyre

A portrait of a young man, Michael, so obsessed with death that he decorates his room with a life-size Grim Reaper. One night Michael's closest...

genus: Drama

cast: Ken Lerner

Benjamin Osgood, a savvy ten-year-old business executive, meets a coworker's daughter, and must decide how grown up he wants to be.

genus: Comedy

cast: Kelli Berglund

On her first day in Afghanistan, an interpreter for the US Army is forced to deliver the child of an enemy bomb-maker.

genus: Drama

cast: Layla Alizada

In the brutal battlefield of junior high, Sam has always tried to stay below radar — but all that changes when he discovers he has super powers.

genus: Drama

cast: Jonah Beres

Jamie's marriage depends on her birthday gift to her wife. But what if the handbag that Cherry covets is simply impossible to get?

genus: Romance

cast: Evelyn Edwards

Maria, a competitive woman in her late 30's orders a clone from North Korea under the pretense of getting some help around the house so she can spend...

genus: Comedy

cast: Brooke Nevin

A woman struggles to adjust to her new life in a human zoo exhibit on an alien planet.

genus: Drama

cast: Bella Dayne

A man approaches a woman in a field.

genus: Horror

cast: Jack Fisk

Inspired by the Greek myth of Prometheus, a Titan who created the first mortals from clay and stole fire from the gods, Prometheus' Garden immerses...

genus: Animation

cast: Emily Bishton

A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...

genus: Comedy

cast: Joe Gibbons

Adaptation of a Strindberg play by Lee Grant for the 1974 AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Restored in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The...

genus:

cast: Dolores Dorn

A lonely 50s housewife undertakes radical atomic surgery to win back her husband's wandering eyes and to become the perfect wife in the process.

genus: Comedy

cast: Alexandra Marian Hensley