Movies by Alia Shawkat

Blink Twice

Blink Twice

When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. But despite the epic setting, beautiful people, ever-flowing champagne, and late-night dance parties, Frida can sense that there’s something sinister hiding beneath the island’s lush façade.

Ruby Sparks

Ruby Sparks

Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.

Deck the Halls

Deck the Halls

Determined to unseat Steve Finch's reign as the town's holiday season king, Buddy Hall plasters his house with so many decorative lights that it'll be visible from space! When their wives bond, and their kids follow suit, the two men only escalate their rivalry - and their decorating.

Green Room

Green Room

A punk rock band becomes trapped in a secluded venue after finding a scene of violence. For what they saw, the band themselves become targets of violence from a gang of white power skinheads, who want to eliminate all evidence of the crime.

The Final Girls

The Final Girls

A young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.

First Cow

First Cow

In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two team up on a dangerous scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner’s prized Jersey cow – the first, and only, in the territory.

Whip It

Whip It

In Bodeen, Texas, Land Of The Dragon, an indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin.

Cedar Rapids

Cedar Rapids

A naive Midwesterner insurance salesman travels to a big-city convention in an effort to save the jobs of his co-workers.

The Brass Teapot

The Brass Teapot

When a couple discovers that a brass teapot makes them money whenever they hurt themselves, they must come to terms with how far they are willing to go.

The To Do List

The To Do List

Feeling pressured to become more sexually experienced before she goes to college, Brandy Klark makes a list of things to accomplish before hitting campus in the fall.

Byron Bowers: Spiritual N***a

Byron Bowers: Spiritual N***a

After a life-altering revelation while tripping on psychedelic mushrooms, comedian Byron Bowers stumbles straight from the desert into the Decatur Boxing Club, to deliver an intimate set in his hometown Atlanta. Byron talks about his long journey to his first comedy special, the stigma of mental health, and how tripping on mushrooms made him understand his schizophrenic father and altered the way he feels about his Blackness.

Atropia

Atropia

An aspiring actress, fed up with the treatment of women on a U.S. military training base simulating an Iraqi war zone, plots an escape.

10 Crosby

10 Crosby

A series of short films following the interconnected lives on Crosby street, New York City.

The Good Time Girls

The Good Time Girls

A group of women band together as they go to war against a pack of men who have done them wrong at every turn.

The Letter Room

The Letter Room

Richard, a lonely and well-meaning prison officer, is put in charge of reading and censoring the letters received by inmates.

May in the Summer

May in the Summer

A bride-to-be is forced to reevaluate her life when she reunites with her family in Jordan and finds herself confronted with the aftermath of her parents’ divorce.

Setup, Punch

Setup, Punch

Showing that there is always a reason to laugh, stand-up comic Reuben Stein does the most daring set of his life. The consequences will change his life forever and allow him to discover the true nature of performance.

Me Him Her

Me Him Her

Three very different people in their twenties try to figure out love, sex, identity and friendship in Los Angeles.

Night Moves

Night Moves

The story about three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.

Blaze

Blaze

Re-imagining the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting Texas legend.