Starring Courtney Love
6 Episodes
A performer of rare volatility and range, Courtney Love brings a feral intelligence and bruised glamour to the screen, meriting a place in cinematic culture alongside her hallowed stature in music. In films, Love is not merely an icon crossing mediums; her work with auteurs like Alex Cox (STRAIGHT TO HELL), Julian Schnabel (BASQUIAT), and Miloš Forman (THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT) reveals a deeply intuitive actor with an instinct for showcasing contradictory impulses: tenderness edged with danger, charisma undercut by disarming rawness. Messy, magnetic, and defiantly alive, Love’s is a screen presence that resists containment.
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00:54Episode 1Starring Courtney Love Teaser
Episode 1
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1:31:05Episode 2Straight to Hell
Episode 2
Directed by Alex Cox • 1987 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring Dick Rude, Sy Richardson, Courtney LoveFour hapless bank robbers attempt to hide out in a depopulated desert town only to discover that it’s not really deserted at all in director Alex Cox’s wildly surreal send-up of the spagh...
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Basquiat
Episode 3
Directed by Julian Schnabel • 2024 • United States
Starring Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, Dennis HopperJulian Schnabel’s tribute to his friend and fellow painter Jean-Michel Basquiat is less a conventional biopic than an impressionistic, sensory immersion into the much-mythologized downtown-Manh...
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2:09:37Episode 4The People vs. Larry Flynt
Episode 4
Directed by Miloš Forman • 1996 • United States
Starring Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward NortonDirector Miloš Forman brings his slyly subversive sensibility to this wickedly entertaining, stranger-than-fiction look at one man’s notorious public persona and unconventional private life. Wo...
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Beat
Episode 5
Directed by Gary Walkow • 2000 • United States
Starring Courtney Love, Kiefer Sutherland, Ron LivingstonThe iconoclastic, live-fast-die-young ethos of the Beat generation drives this potent portrait of some of the major literary lions of the twentieth century. From 1940s New York to 1950s Mexic...
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Trapped
Episode 6
Directed by Luis Mandoki • 2002 • United States, Germany
Starring Charlize Theron, Courtney Love, Stuart TownsendWhen their daughter (Dakota Fanning) is abducted and taken for ransom by a gang of serial kidnappers, a young doctor (Stuart Townsend) and his wife (Charlize Theron) are held hostage...
