
August 6, 1938 · 87 years old
Paul Bartel (August 6, 1938 – May 13, 2000) was an American director, writer and actor.

The sole survivor of a pier shoot-out tells the story of how a notorious criminal influenced the events that began with five criminals meeting in a seemingly random police lineup.

The Griswolds win a vacation tour across Europe where the usual havoc ensues.

In a dystopian future, a cross country automobile race requires contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are tallied based on each kill's brutality.

When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.

A group of young shopping mall employees stay behind for a late night party in one of the stores. When the mall goes on lock-down before they can get out, the robot security system malfunctions, and goes on a killing spree.

When a crass new-money tycoon's membership application is turned down at a snooty country club, he retaliates by buying the club and turning it into a tacky amusement park.

A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.

Ramones fanatic and delinquent Riff Randell battles it out with the strict new principal of Vince Lombardi High School, Miss Togar, with help from the Ramones.

A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that's been raised to attack black people.

A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discovers a bizarre, if not murderous, way to get funding for opening a restaurant.

A Vietnam vet moves into an apartment and peers through other people's windows across the street, meets one of the women, and discovers Black theater.

Racing across the country from L.A. to New York, a plethora of exotic cars carry contestants hoping to win a very large sum.

A business executive is releasing dangerous toxins and the Barbarian Brothers set out to stop his evil work.

Billy is a gay fine-arts photographer who falls in love with straight coffee-shop waiter Gabriel.

A group of unscrupulous characters seek buried treasure in the old west.

A scientist discovers a strange little creature in a cave. The "munchie" is obviously of extraterrestrial origin, but what he doesn't know is the danger it represents.

Young Cheryl moves into her estranged aunt Martha's rundown King Edward Hotel. One of its offbeat residents, disturbed photographer George, takes special interest in her. Cheryl begins suspecting that a resident was murdered.

Two household robots run away and try to start a family.

A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and the reappearance of his old lover.