Karen Black Movie Rankings
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Karen Black scores a combined 3.2645 out of 4 stars for Player
3.2645
A studio executive, Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), is the person able to make films possible by reviewing pitches that are presented to him. When he rejects a writer’s work, the writer is upset and sends threatening postcards to Griffin. ... more about Player
DVD from $3.00 
(7 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 3.0106 out of 4 stars for Five Easy Pieces
3.0106
FIVE EASY PIECES is one of the most notable collaborations between Jack Nicholson and director Bob Rafelson, with Nicholson in an outstanding performance as Bobby Dupea. In the film, Rafelson and... ... more about Five Easy Pieces
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Golden Globes, USA - Best Supporting Actress
National Board of Review, USA - Best Supporting Actress
New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actress
DVD from $3.95 
(7 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 2.8270 out of 4 stars for Nashville
2.8270
During a long weekend the mid-1970s, the lives of twenty-four protagonists intersect in Nashville as the city hosts a music festival and political rally. ... more about Nashville
DVD from $3.90 
(5 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 2.7712 out of 4 stars for Capricorn One
2.7712
Classic conspiracy tale about the first manned mission to Mars. All appears to be going well until the astronauts are pulled off the ship just before launch by shadowy government types and whisked off to a film studio in the desert. ... more about Capricorn One
DVD from $4.19 
(6 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 2.7380 out of 4 stars for Invaders from Mars
2.7380
In this remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. ... more about Invaders from Mars
DVD from $6.85 
(5 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 2.7032 out of 4 stars for Family Plot
2.7032
Fake medium Madam Blanche (Barbara Harris) and her taxi driver boyfriend George (Bruce Dern) make a living by scaming people with her phoney powers. ... more about Family Plot
DVD from $7.70 
(8 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 2.6215 out of 4 stars for Great Gatsby
2.6215
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. ... more about Great Gatsby
Actor Awards
Golden Globes, USA - Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
DVD from $3.90 
(6 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 2.6168 out of 4 stars for Cisco Pike
2.6168
Cisko is an ex-rockstar who has become a drug addict. A corrupt cop blackmails Cisco to sell marijuana for him. Cisco has one weekend to sell it to his friends. ... more about Cisco Pike
DVD from $3.95 
(5 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 2.6136 out of 4 stars for Burnt Offerings
2.6136
Haunted house chiller from Dan Curtis has Oliver Reed and Karen Black as summer caretakers moving into gothic house with their young son. The catch? The house rejuvenates a part of it's self with each death that occurs on it's premises. ... more about Burnt Offerings
Actor Awards
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival - Best Actress
DVD from $4.46 
(4 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 2.5247 out of 4 stars for Day of the Locust
2.5247
Tod Hackett, fresh out of Yale, wants to make it as an art director in late 1930's Hollywood - but he finds himself increasingly distracted by his new neighbor Faye, a would-be starlet with possible designs of her own on a lonely, morose accountant. ... more about Day of the Locust
Actor Awards
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama
DVD from $4.22 
(6 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 2.5133 out of 4 stars for Conceiving Ada
2.5133
Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. ... more about Conceiving Ada
DVD from $6.50 
(1 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 2.3248 out of 4 stars for Airport 1975
2.3248
A mid-air collision involving a a small plane and a commercial jetliner leads to potential disaster, as a plane loaded with passengers and no pilot becomes the worst nightmare for a flight attendant tasked with flying the craft. ... more about Airport 1975
DVD from $9.99 
(6 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 2.1500 out of 4 stars for House of 1000 Corpses
2.1500
In "House of 1000 Corpses", two young couples take a misguided tour onto the back roads of America in search of a local legend known as Dr. Satan. Lost and stranded, they are set upon by a bizarre family of psychotics. ... more about House of 1000 Corpses
DVD from $3.00 
(6 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 2.0150 out of 4 stars for Drive
2.0150
Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. ... more about Drive
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.9502 out of 4 stars for Gypsy 83
1.9502
Two outcasts who feel small-town Sandusky, Ohio closing in on them, Gypsy and Clive lose themselves in Gothic fantasies, soothed by the retro sounds of The Cure, Siouxie and the Banshees, and Bauhaus. ... more about Gypsy 83
DVD from $5.13 
(3 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.9312 out of 4 stars for You're a Big Boy Now
1.9312
A young man named Bernard Chanticleer is oversheltered by his parents and is just beginning to discover girls at almost 20 years of age. At his father's library where he works, he meets a senstive young beauty named Amy who takes an interest in him. ... more about You're a Big Boy Now
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.8949 out of 4 stars for Children of the Night
1.8949
Cindy and Lucy are eighteen and going away to college. As a ritual they must rid themselves of the dirt of their small home town (Allburg) by swimming in an abandoned church crypt. ... more about Children of the Night
DVD from $18.99 
(0 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.8732 out of 4 stars for Outfit
1.8732
When the small criminal Macklin is released from prison, he learns that shortly before his brother was shot by two killers. They didn't know that the bank they robbed was owned by the syndicate. ... more about Outfit
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.8200 out of 4 stars for Come Back to the Five and Dime
1.8200
The Disciples of James Dean meet up on the anniversary of his death and mull over their lives in the present and in flashback, revealing the truth behind their complicated lives. ... more about Come Back to the Five and Dime
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.8036 out of 4 stars for Evil Spirits
1.8036
A strange woman runs a boardinghouse whose tenants--mostly misfits and others who won't be missed--begin dying off or simply disappearing. ... more about Evil Spirits
DVD from $1.43 
(3 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.7427 out of 4 stars for Firecracker
1.7427
A tale of murder in small-town Kansas. When Jimmy is lured away from his abusive family by a traveling sideshow carnival, he encounters Sandra, one of the main attractions. ... more about Firecracker
Actor Awards
Fantasporto - Best Actress
DVD from $7.59 
(0 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.7361 out of 4 stars for Teknolust
1.7361
Anxious to use artificial life to improve the world, Rosetta Stone, (Tilda Swinton), a bio-geneticist creates a Recipe for Cyborgs and uses her own DNA in order to breed three Self Replicating Automatons, part human, part computer named Ruby, Olive and ... more about Teknolust
DVD from $3.00 
(0 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.7256 out of 4 stars for It's Alive III: Island of the Alive
1.7256
The mutant babies have been placed by court order on a deserted island. Appalled by the cycnicism and exploitation of the children by the legal system and the media, the man responsible for them leads an expedition to the island to free them. ... more about It's Alive III: Island of the Alive
DVD from $5.22 
(4 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.7214 out of 4 stars for Buttleman
1.7214
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.7214 out of 4 stars for Fans and Freaks: The Culture of Comics and Conventions
1.7214
Welcome to the world of Japanese action heroes, furry creatures, medieval adventurers, space travelers, and so much more.... Welcome to the world of fandom. ... more about Fans and Freaks: The Culture of Comics and Conventions
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.6959 out of 4 stars for Men
1.6959
Stella James lives rather empty life with alcoholic friend Teo. One day Teo gives her plane ticket to Los Angeles to live without him. ... more about Men
DVD from $4.36 
(2 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.6438 out of 4 stars for Dogtown
1.6438
Philip Van Horn, who left his small town a long time ago to become a Hollywood actor and hasn't had any success at that, returns to the town for a visit. There he is uniformally met like some kind of celebrity and movie star. ... more about Dogtown
DVD from $2.34 
(2 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.6412 out of 4 stars for Gypsy 83
1.6412
Two young misfits head for New York City to celebrate their idol and muse, Stevie Nicks, at The Night of 1,000 Stevies. Along the road, in order for them to escape their painful pasts, they must discover their strengths and learn self-acceptance. ... more about Gypsy 83
DVD from $5.09 
(3 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.5707 out of 4 stars for Bound and Gagged: A Love Story
1.5707
Leslie's husband Steve is a brute and she wants out, at least she thinks she does. Her lover Elizabeth agrees that Steve needs to go away, so they plot his murder. ... more about Bound and Gagged: A Love Story
DVD from $63.31 
(0 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.4654 out of 4 stars for Inferno in diretta
1.4654
A cameraman and a reporter head into the jungle searching for the missing son of a TV producer hoping to find a big story. What they get caught up in is a drug war which threatens to take their own lives. ... more about Inferno in diretta
DVD from $4.62 
(3 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.4653 out of 4 stars for Gunfight
1.4653
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.4566 out of 4 stars for Haunting Fear
1.4566
Victoria can't sleep: she's having bad dreams about being buried alive. Her husband Terry makes her go see Dr. Carlton, who she blames for her father's death. Unable to help her, he asks Dr. ... more about Haunting Fear
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.4395 out of 4 stars for Night Angel
1.4395
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.4292 out of 4 stars for Auntie Lee's Meat Pies
1.4292
Outside the small, one-cop town of Penance, California, Auntie Lee bakes her popular meat pies, with the help of four nubile nieces and the ranch's blood-simple handyman, Larry. ... more about Auntie Lee's Meat Pies
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.4014 out of 4 stars for Killer Fish
1.4014
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.3137 out of 4 stars for Mascara
1.3137
Three women approaching 30 find themselves in varying degrees of unfortunate romance. ... more about Mascara
DVD from $10.49 
(3 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.2876 out of 4 stars for Dr. Rage
1.2876
After enrolling in an experimental study on Rage Impulse Disorder at the Straun Foundation, Michael Dare discovers that the research is not what it seems. After learning that the Foundation's head, Dr. ... more about Dr. Rage
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.2557 out of 4 stars for Plan 10 from Outer Space
1.2557
A woman accidentally discovers the Plaque of Kolob which leads her to discover an insidous alien plot for world domination documented by a disreputable early Mormon prophet. ... more about Plan 10 from Outer Space
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.2127 out of 4 stars for Savage Dawn
1.2127
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.1430 out of 4 stars for Teknolust
1.1430
Anxious to use artificial intelligent robots to improve the world, Rosetta Stone (Swinton), a bio-geneticist, devises a recipe through which she can download her own DNA into a "live" brew she is growing in her computer. ... more about Teknolust
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.0543 out of 4 stars for Ace Up My Sleeve
1.0543
Financier persuades his mistress to marry a rich industrialist for his money, then discovers that he and the new wife are to be murdered by her new husband. ... more about Ace Up My Sleeve
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 1.0000 out of 4 stars for Children
1.0000
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.9056 out of 4 stars for Mirror
0.9056
Shy teenager Megan (Rainbow Harvest) moves to a new town with her widowed mother (Karen Black) and quickly becomes the most unpopular girl in high school. ... more about Mirror
DVD from $11.38 
(1 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.8036 out of 4 stars for Charades
0.8036
Barry is a down-and-out-guy who takes a job at the shipping department of Technoworks, a high-tech Yuppie company. He gets invited to the house of his boss Quinn, for a weekend afternoon barbecue with some of his boss's friends. ... more about Charades
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.7488 out of 4 stars for America Brown
0.7488
In America Brown, a coming of age drama, high school football star Ricky Brown (Kwanten) flees his hometown in West Texas to start a new life in New York City. ... more about America Brown
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.2146 out of 4 stars for Hard Luck
0.2146
The story of three childhood friends whose lives have drifted apart as adults...but during a time of tragedy, they rejoin at an island in Oregon where the three of them spent their happiest summers. ... more about Hard Luck
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Birth of Industry
0.0001
BIRTH OF INDUSTRY is a contemporary allegory that explores the dualism of industry and nature. Maya, a young woman, emerges mysteriously from the ocean to give birth to her son, Joseph. ... more about Birth of Industry
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Caged Fear
0.0001
After a jewelry theft Tommy Lane can hardly free. His girlfriend Kristen has less luck and is arrested. She's sentenced to jail in an ill-reputed female prison in Oklahoma. ... more about Caged Fear
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Club Fed
0.0001
A powerful gangster is murdered. However, All of his holdings were in his girlfriend's name. So she is charged and sent to a minimum-security prison, where all of the prisoners are filthy rich. ... more about Club Fed
DVD from $27.95 
(0 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Cries of Silence
0.0001
After a hurricane reeks havoc on Sister Island, Mississippi, rescue parties find a young girl on the shore. The girl is alive and soon opens her eyes, but she is non responsive. ... more about Cries of Silence
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Donor
0.0001
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Double 0 Kid
0.0001
Lance, a teenager, dreams to be a secret agent when he is suddenly in the middle of an hacker intrigue which aims at an international environmental congress. ... more about Double 0 Kid
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Every Minute Is Goodbye
0.0001
A butler is accused of murdering a hair-dresser in a small country town. The local Sheriff abuses his power by charging the butler with unrelated murder charges, including a charge of necrophilia. ... more about Every Minute Is Goodbye
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Final Judgement
0.0001
A priest is suspected in the brutal murder of a young stripper. To prove his innocence, he descends into the world of strip clubs and pornography, hoping to catch the killer. The priest is hampered by the police and taunted by the killer. ... more about Final Judgement
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Gräset sjunger
0.0001
A city-woman moves to a foreign country with her future husband, giving up all the comforts of cosmopolitan life. Life in the countryside finally takes its toll on her, and she finds herself involved sexually with another man. ... more about Gräset sjunger
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Hostage
0.0001
The leader of a South African Nation is imprisoned. His followers, led by Zabo, hijack a plane with the intent to use the passengers as hostages to trade for his release. They select a plane carrying a religious leader to use as their main hostage. ... more about Hostage
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Judgement
0.0001
A musically talented Chicano teen (Francesco Quinn) gets involved with a gang after a music teacher throws him out of a classroom where he snuck in too practice the piano. Aligning himself with the gang, they sneak back in and destroy the music room. ... more about Judgement
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Last Word
0.0001
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Legend of the Roller Blade Seven
0.0001
In a post-apocalyptic world where rollerblading is the chief means of travel, the evil Pharoah sends his minions outside the Wheel Zone to abduct a psychic. ... more about Legend of the Roller Blade Seven
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Martin's Day
0.0001
Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too - a quiet "good little boy" always obeying the rules, whom life has given only dismal loneliness and frustration in return. ... more about Martin's Day
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Oliver Twisted
0.0001
Oliver has been confined at a private institution for many years, living naked in a padded cell with only a stainless steel slab for a bed. ... more about Oliver Twisted
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Paris
0.0001
Paris follows rookie detective Jason Bartok on his disturbing journey through the shadowy underworld of Los Angeles and Las Vegas, illuminated only by a sweet but short-lived romance with a strikingly beautiful, enigmatic woman. ... more about Paris
DVD from $4.20 
(1 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Quiet Fire
0.0001
Jesse Palmer (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs), is a Vietnam Veteran who must discomfit his ex-commanding officer turned crooked senate candidate named Whalen (Lance Lindsay, a Ted Turner look-alike) from conspiring to turn over part of the U.S. ... more about Quiet Fire
DVD from $6.99 
(0 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Rhinoceros
0.0001
Originally an absurdist play by Eugene Ionesco, Rhinoceros tells the story of a French town plagued by rhinoceroses. These are not ordinary rhinoceroses, but people who have been victims of "rhinoceritis. ... more about Rhinoceros
DVD from $11.50 
(4 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Rubin and Ed
0.0001
Reclusive Rubin Farr teams up with vocal but unsuccessful multi-level salesman Ed Tuttle on a quest to bury Rubin's dead cat in the "perfect spot. ... more about Rubin and Ed
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Squeeze
0.0001
Lee Van Cleef is a safe cracker coming out of retirement to pull off one last caper. The Germans behind the theft are planning to steal $1,000,000. But unbeknownst to the safe cracker, they are planning to kill him afterward. ... more about Squeeze
DVD from $3.00 
(0 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Starstruck
0.0001
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Stir
0.0001
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Suffering Man's Charity
0.0001
A weird, uptight music teacher (Cumming) takes in a younger, struggling writer (Boreanaz) and tries to help him, but secretly hold an attraction to him. ... more about Suffering Man's Charity
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Summer Solstice
0.0001
In the summer of '92, Joshua Ballard (George Fivas), a brilliant but aimless college student, meets lighthouse keeper Seth Arden (Joe Estevez, Jumping for Joy) at a seaside college town. ... more about Summer Solstice
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Trust
0.0001
In this true life murder mystery, we know early on "whodunnit" (the butler, actually), but the surprising charm in the story stems from the fact that the lawyer is honest and morally upright. ... more about Trust
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Twisted Justice
0.0001
In the Los Angeles of the future, police are forbidden to carry weapons and must use stun guns (called "stingers") instead. ... more about Twisted Justice
DVD from $0.01 
(1 sellers)
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Waiting for Dr. MacGuffin
0.0001
The film is a dark, comic view of an elderly Latvian man's anxiety during a visit to the Dentist, filmed as a series of dreams, one within another, each differentiated visually. WAITING FOR DR. ... more about Waiting for Dr. MacGuffin
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Whitepaddy
0.0001
Free-spirit Karen reluctantly returns home to Portland, Oregon and finds an unusual change: the old neighborhood has suddenly become predominantly Black. Trying to fit in with her new neighbors she also struggles to keep her own patchwork family in check. ... more about Whitepaddy
Not Available on DVD
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Karen Black scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Fallen Arches
0.0001
Actor Awards
Chicago Alt.Film Fest - Best Actress
DVD from $4.00 
(2 sellers)
 
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Karen Black
Birthdate:
July 1, 1939

Karen Black

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Career Span:

Decade
# Movies
Movie Score
1960s
3
total ranking of 0.8439  0.8439
1970s
22
total ranking of 2.6881  2.6881
1980s
18
total ranking of 1.5953  1.5953
1990s
46
total ranking of 1.7479  1.7479
2000s
28
total ranking of 1.7437  1.7437
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score:
2.2779
Karen Black is ranked overall as 2.2779 of of 4 stars
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