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Karen Black has 14 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2010s.
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
1973
Horror

Burnt Offerings
1976 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Five Easy Pieces
1970 · Movie · Actor
Top 33%Tubi · Free w/ ads

House of 1000 Corpses
2003 · Movie · Actor
Top 34%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Capricorn One
1977 · Movie · Actor
Top 50%Prime Video · Included

Invaders from Mars
1986 · Movie · Actor
Top 67%Prime Video · Included

Airport 1975
1974 · Movie · Actor
Top 92%Netflix · Included

The film profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, shining a light on how they attract true believers and the things they do in the name of religion.
Dir. Alex Gibney · With Paul Haggis, Jason Beghe, Alex Gibney

The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—connect to the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.
Dir. Robert Altman · With David Arkin, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty

A family moves into a large old mansion in the countryside which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its new residents.
Dir. Dan Curtis · With Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Karen Black

Robert Dupea spends his days doing various odd jobs, drinking and womanizing until an encounter with his sister makes him revisit his past.
Dir. Bob Rafelson · With Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach

Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
Dir. Rob Zombie · With Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie

as Julie / Millicent Larimore / Therese Larimore / Amelia
A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college professor is aggressively pursued by one of her students; a prudish brunette determines that her free-spirited blonde sister is evil; and a woman's night turns upside down after she purchases an ancient Zuni fetish doll.
Dir. Dan Curtis · With Karen Black, Robert Burton, John Karlen

A former mental patient's repressed anger reaches the boiling point, leading him to embark on a mission of revenge against the thugs who once subjected him to severe physical and mental trauma.
Dir. Jack Perez · With Kevin Corrigan, Barry Bostwick, Karen Black

In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astronauts play their part in the deception on a staged set in a deserted military base. But once the real ship returns to Earth and burns up on re-entry, the astronauts become liabilities. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro

A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants.
Dir. Tobe Hooper · With Hunter Carson, Karen Black, Timothy Bottoms

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.
Dir. John Schlesinger · With Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith

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. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
Dir. Jack Clayton · With Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern

When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.
Dir. Jack Smight · With Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy

A bright young medical student must solve the frightening mystery that plagues the children of a small Midwestern town.
Dir. Greg Spence · With Naomi Watts, Brent Jennings, Samaria Graham
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