Eddie Muller Movies

This documentary explores the hidden history of the American Exploitation Film. The movie digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and unearths the shameless and occasionally shocking origins of this popular entertainment.

A group of students are trapped at a school after a time capsule from the 1950's is cracked open by an earthquake. The students soon realize that ghostly spirits escaped from the time capsule, and possessed the principal and three other teachers.

Throughout the 1950s, Tab Hunter reigned as Hollywood’s ultimate male heartthrob. But throughout his years of stardom, Tab had a secret. Tab Hunter was gay, and spent his Hollywood years in a precarious closet that repeatedly threatened to implode and destroy him. Tab Hunter himself shares first...

Behind the scenes of "The Man Who Cheated Himself" (1950)

Film Noir burrows into the mind; it's disorienting, intriguing and enthralling. Noir brings us into a gritty underworld of lush morbidity, providing intimate peeks at its tough, scheming dames, mischievous misfits and flawed men - all caught in the wicked web of a twisted fate.

Documentary about the use of 3-D technology in Inferno (1953) and the advent of CinemaScope, in 1953 in the film The Robe (1953).

An appreciation and the story of the making of the 1941 film "The Maltese Falcon."

Film noir expert Eddie Muller and others discuss the classic film Trapped.

A documentary featuring film historians, directors and authors discussing the making of Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity."

Tab Hunter’s first-person account of his struggle to come to terms with his sexual orientation in 1950s Hollywood, an era in which being openly gay was taboo.

Brief overview of the two actors at the Fox Studio.

Making of Moontide talking about the production of the movie.

A documentary by Steven C. Smith and Eddie Muller exploring the life and work of author Cornell Woolrich.

The history of the birth of an icon, the Borsalino hat. From the factory where it was conceived in a small Italian town, to the glamorous world of Hollywood.

A documentary about film noir films made in Los Angeles.

CZAR OF NOIR details the history of noir in American cinema – but also reveals the obsessed, personal side to Eddie Muller: how he was first introduced by his father, a San Francisco journalist who specialized in boxing, to a world that was purely “noir.” Eddie went on to write five...

A documentary about the history of exploitation films that focuses on the careers of legendary producers David F. Friedman and Dan Sonney.

A young woman (Dashe) discovers a cache of used books that she believes holds clues to the solution of decades-old crimes. When the authorities dismiss her, she takes matters into her own hands, ringing the doorbell of Hazel Reedy (Hunt), a lonely recluse who may or may not be the widow of...

Documentary on the making of the film, from script to noir classic, produced by Steven Smith and the Film Noir Foundation.

Promotional short to benefit Eddie Muller's Film Noir Foundation and their annual "Noir City" event in San Francisco, CA.