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Browse 24 movies from Chanticleer Films
When personal and creative differences threaten to destroy a musical supergroup during the recording of an album, studio guitar player McQueen is brought in to smooth out the tracks. Soon he is reconsidering the direction of his life as he dreams of the elusive brass ring.
Jan 1991
Married couple Tom and Julie begin to question the stability of their relationship when an old friend comes to visit... with his latest mistress in tow.
Oct 1993
Jeff Goldblum and Forest Whitaker star as New York jazz musicians, forced to confront a life beyond their hedonistic existence when a personal crisis strikes.
A rich man, his beautiful wife, and her young lover form a triangle of romance and revenge: One night, advertising executive Jim (C. Thomas Howell) picks up a beautiful woman in a grocery store and they have an affair. Unfortunately for him, she's Caroline Everett (Joan Severance), the wife of rich, powerful, and vengeful businessman Roger Everett (Malcolm McDowell). When he meets her again, their relationship blossoms. Roger finds it out, and sets out to ruin his life.
Feb 1995
A young woman agrees to enter a tattoo contest with an artist known as the Michelangelo of the tattoo world.
Jan 1996
In the future, surgeons practice their skill on androids designed to imitate patients, but Dr. Garrett sees this as pointless since she cares little about fake robotic patients. However, her latest patient Teach 109 changes her mind.
Jan 1990
Janet recalls the summer during her teenage years when her family moved yet again for her father's job with NASA, including him teaching her to drive and her meeting her first boyfriend.
Feb 1989
A short film from a collection of four Greasy Lake is a part of the Discovery Program: Four Short Stories (Ray's Male Heterosexual Dancehall/Greasy Lake/Hearts of Stone/The Open Window). "TC (Eric Stoltz) and his friends Digby (James Spader) and Jeff (Tegan West) are intelligent 19-year-olds who have, in TC's words, decided that "it's good to be bad".
Jan 1988
A Los Angeles mother and her seven-year-old daughter search for an escape from the poverty in which they live.
Twenty margaritas and 10 shots of tequila, with a few ounces of debauchery, bring four friends closer to the truth than they have been for years.
Jan 2003
Office employee Barry Thomas is caught in a "time bounce" caused by a glitch in the company's secret project. Now the same day occurs again and again - and Barry's the only one who can do anything about it, including saving the life of beautiful research assistant Lisa Fredericks.
Jul 1993
A homeless family of three sleeps on a TV production stage, by day looking for a job. One day somebody finds them.
Oct 1991
A compendium of three short science-fiction films, each with a decidedly feminist slant.
Jun 2001
Trudy Walker hated her life. She thought it was totally messed up until she found out about a contest that could change everything...
Apr 2002
The story of an aspiring actress, a down-on-his-luck photographer, and their fateful trip into the desert.
Jun 1997
Bright and eager to hit the streets in search of bad guys, rookie cop Christine Paley is disappointed when she's instead assigned to process criminals. Under the supervision of a tough but likable mentor, Christine quickly learns that hers is like no other desk job in the world.
Dumped by his girlfriend, a young unemployed actor decides to transform his house into a "museum" of their relationship.
Oct 1996
Override is a 1994 American science fiction short film. It was the directorial debut of Danny Glover and starred Lou Diamond Phillips and Emily Lloyd. It is based on the Nebula- and Hugo-nominated short story, Over the Long Haul, by Martha Soukup.
Oct 1994
An irresponsible teen examines his life after his fed-up parents leave him to fend for himself.
Dec 1993
The hours of your life as a currency you can buy or sell, trade or squander...
Aug 1987