Joe Swanberg Trailers
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Joe Swanberg (born August 31, 1981) is an American independent film director, producer, writer, and actor. Known for micro-budget films which make extensive use of improvisation, Swanberg is considered a major figure in the mumblecore film movement. His films often focus on relationships, sex, technology, and the filmmaking process, and include V/H/S (2012), Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007), Win It All (2017), Digging For Fire (2015), and Nights and Weekends (2008), the last of which was co-directed by Academy Award nominee Greta Gerwig.
Most Popular Joe Swanberg Trailers
Total trailers found: 81
23 September 2011
Tension mounts between a director and his lead actress on the set of a sexually explicit low-budget film.
27 April 2007
Broke and alone on New Year's Eve, Wilson just wants to spend the rest of a very bad year in bed. But, when his best friend convinces him to post a personal ad, he meets a woman bent on finding the right guy to be with at midnight.
11 March 2017
A gambling addict faces a conflict when entrusted with keeping a bunch of money that isn't his.
28 October 2011
An actress and her filmmaker boyfriend experience turbulence in their relationship when she accepts a role in a werewolf film.
10 August 2018
Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur.
25 September 2009
Jeff, a wannabe writer flailing at his career, his romantic relationships and any effort to be a responsible adult, takes a road trip to flee his mundane life.
06 October 2016
After returning to her childhood home, young nun Colleen finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth and metal posters.
12 March 2005
Ellen is sleeping with her ex-boyfriend while trying to ignore the fact that he's looking for more than just sex.
09 February 2018
An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.
04 August 2013
Billy is a fetish photographer whose models begin to turn up dead. Michael, a melancholic cop, is tasked with investigating him.
16 March 2011
A mysterious visitor spends the night at an apartment belonging to a young engaged couple and their friend.
13 March 2006
The relationships of three men are examined through their use of technology.
14 March 2009
An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.
22 August 2007
Hannah is a recent college graduate interning at a Chicago production company. She is crushing on two writers at work, Matt and Paul, who share an office and keep her entertained.
13 September 2019
A field surgeon suffering from PTSD after combat in the Middle East creates a living human out of body parts in his Brooklyn lab.
10 October 2008
A man and woman must face the tension that builds between them during a long-distance relationship.
01 September 2010
After moving to Chicago for art school, Sam begins turning tricks to help pay the bills. His longtime, long-distance boyfriend Aaron can't stand to be apart and finally joins him, determined to find enough work so that Sam can give up having sex for money.
28 July 2012
When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire one rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they had bargained for.
12 August 2016
After his engagement ends badly, Josh decides to take advantage of his bachelor-party plans in Ojai, California, with the few friends still willing to join him.
22 August 2013
When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.
11 March 2022
Upon receiving a mysterious letter that her mother's grave has been vandalized, Marie travels to the desolate island town where she's buried.
11 August 2009
A high school prom faces a deadly threat: a flesh-eating virus that spreads via a popular brand of bottled water.
18 April 2014
While walking home from her latest OB appointment, a very pregnant Esther Woodhouse is brutally attacked and disfigured by a hooded assailant.
06 December 2013
After an unexpected tragedy, Suzanne searches for the true meaning of Christmas during one sad, strange December in suburban Virginia.
17 January 2011
A pothead kid's show cartoonist in Los Angeles spends a weekend trying to sleep with his visiting house guest - a woman from New York who he met on Chatroulette.
02 December 2022
Follows a young man who after his father is murdered starts making bad choices, goes through life-threatening consequences and, of course, gets into guns.
10 September 2015
Opting to sleep in the allegedly-haunted guest house while spending a weekend in the Hamptons with friends, Ruth, a lonely young woman in her mid-twenties who's had too much to drink, strikes up a conversation that leads to a sexual encounter with Michael, a burlap-draped ghost that casually appears before her.
07 February 2014
The arrival of a handsome new farmhand threatens the balance between a farmer and his daughter.
02 September 2013
Two journalists set out to document their friend's journey to reunite with his estranged sister. They track her to an undisclosed location where they are welcomed into the remote world of "Eden Parish," a self-sustained rural utopia composed of nearly two hundred members and overseen by a mysterious leader known only as "Father.
12 July 2024
A mysterious coven helps unhappy wives murder their husbands. A deadbeat stoner turns a pizzeria into a video rental headshop, and a lost soul falls in love with a serial killer, in this queer romance cursed by black magic and the occult!
26 November 2010
A blend of reality and fiction, "Open Five" follows the story of Jake, a struggling musician and his sidekick, Kentucker, a maker of "poor" films and what happens when two girls (Lucy and Rose) venture down to Memphis for a long weekend.
07 August 2019
Nominated for two Chicago/Midwest Emmy awards including Outstanding Historical Documentary and Outstanding Off-Camera Directing, "90 Years of the Music Box Theatre" depicts filmmakers Werner Herzog, Lana Wachowski, Michael Shannon, Joe Swanberg, and more as they celebrate a 90-year-old cinema institution in Chicago, IL.
11 April 2015
Middle-aged Lonnie hasn't done much since he graduated high school. His only shot at greatness is to take his relationship to the next level.
23 August 2024
A romantic tale of two body-swapping aliens trying to find their place on this big, dumb planet.
20 April 2017
A real romance filmed over five years. Josephine and Zefrey simmer in the white hot apocalypse of first love until the throw of a dart finds them on a spontaneous trip to the Maldives and cracks open the question -- is their love true or just a performance?
20 December 2013
An insomniac actress is facing the waning days of her career, when her niece pays a visit to her Malibu house.
23 August 2013
Weekend trips, office parties, late night conversations, drinking on the job, marriage pressure, biological clocks, holding eye contact a second too long… you know what makes the line between “friends” and “more than friends” really blurry? Beer.
26 August 2016
In a desperate search to create a follow-up to Joe Swanberg's 2011 film Uncle Kent, Kent Osborne travels to a comic book convention in San Diego where he loses his mind and confronts the end of the world.
23 July 2020
Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them.
16 January 2009
A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital.
29 September 2023
Small town artist Charley is a tortured man whose drinking binges blur with his sneaking suspicion that he might be a werewolf.
30 September 2009
A spoof behind-the-scenes look at Joe Swanberg's (non-existent) new film, Birthday Suit, about a young couple's "on again, off again" sexual relationship.
19 July 2010
Two sisters, one white and one black, spend a week together at their famous father's summer home. A microscopic examination of the new American family unit, it's a deeply personal film about the human connections that bond us all together.
01 January 2005
Guy gets angry at internet. Meets girl in the shops.
12 March 2007
Two brothers have a really bad time on a fishing trip until a stranger makes them a bizarre but lucrative offer.
23 February 2013
A peeping Tom (Frank V. Ross) stumbles into a mutually beneficial relationship with an exhibitionist.
01 July 2007
After an old friend's visit ends, Lori is feeling a bit down. Bored with her job, agitated at home, and frustrated with money problems, Lori takes out her anger on her ex-marine boyfriend, Anson.
28 June 2007
A brother and sister discover the secret behind the "timebox" a device that is used to keep schools on schedual, you hook four together and get a time machine!
01 February 2012
A short film by Joe Swanberg included on the DVD of Silver Bullets. "footage from the first month og
12 January 2012
Emily and Andrew, a young couple living in Memphis, agree to babysit their friend’s 6-month-old for a day.
01 January 2012
Paul - a workaholic independent filmmaker - takes charge of his sleepless baby, Pearl, when his wife, Mary, returns to work.
25 July 2014
After a breakup with her boyfriend, a young woman moves in with her older brother, his wife, and their 2-year-old son.
05 March 2012
Jenny's life has changed significantly since she had a baby. her days of food activism and urban anthropology have been replaced by diapers and playtime at the park.
21 August 2015
Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim's discovery of a bone and a rusty old gun in the yard.
26 June 2008
Made up entirely of stills, 'Paintbrush' presents portraits of ten users of a fictitious online social networking website.
18 March 2013
Ed and Richard are brothers. They're also con artists. Not incredibly successful ones, but they get by.
11 August 2024
In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s sudden death, his daughter inherits his patent for an experimental healing device.
29 August 2007
Jamie is 21. She's from Atlanta. She's come to Brooklyn to visit her friend Samantha, but she can't find her.
07 February 2015
Two women retreat to a lake house to get a break from the pressures of the outside world, only to realize how disconnected from each other they have become, allowing their suspicions to bleed into reality.
01 January 2015
A disgruntled veteran unable to adjust back into society justifies domestic terrorism by interpreting his actions with alien invasion.
