Starring Courtney Love
7 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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1:41:25Episode 5200 Cigarettes
Episode 5
Directed by Risa Bramon Garcia • 1999 • United States
Starring Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck, Dave ChappelleA constellation of some of the buzziest young stars of the 1990s—including Ben Affleck, Dave Chappelle, Janeane Garofalo, Kate Hudson, Courtney Love, Christina Ricci, and Paul Rudd—assemble ...
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Beat
Episode 6
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 7
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...
