List of Films produced by John Waters - FamousFix List (2024)

Pink Flamingos1972 American film directed by John Waters

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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize ... more »

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Pink Flamingos is a 1972 American black comedy film by John Waters. It is part of what Waters has labelled the "Trash Trilogy", which also includes Female Trouble (1974) and Desperate Living (1977). The film stars the countercultural drag queen Divine as a criminal living under the name of Babs Johnson, who is proud to be "the filthiest person alive". While living in a trailer with her mother Edie (Edith Massey), son Crackers (Danny Mills), and companion Cotton (Mary Vivian Pearce), Divine is confronted by the Marbles (David Lochary and Mink Stole), a pair of criminals envious of her reputation who try to outdo her in filth. The characters engage in several grotesque, bizarre, and explicitly crude situations, and upon the film's re-release in 1997 it was rated NC-17 by the MPAA "for a wide range of perversions in explicit detail". It was filmed in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland, where Waters and most of the cast and crew grew up.

• 1972 black comedy films· 10T
• Catholic Legion of Decency condemned film· 48T
• 1970s American films· 2,670T

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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror

A spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitch-hiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph ... more »

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Female Trouble is a 1974 dark comedy film co-composed, filmed, co-edited, written, produced, and directed by John Waters and starring Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Michael Potter, Cookie Mueller, and Susan Walsh.

• LGBT-related black comedy films· 61T
• LGBT-related Christmas films· 34T
• 1970s English-language films· 3,270T

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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror

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Desperate Living is a 1977 American comedy film directed, produced, and written by John Waters. The film stars Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Susan Lowe, Mary Vivian Pearce, and Jean Hill.

• 1977 LGBT-related films· 18T
• Nudity in film· 34T
• Films about cannibalism· 228T

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Genre: Comedy

A suburban housewife's world falls apart when she finds that her p*rnographer husband is serially unfaithful to her, her daughter is pregnant, and her ... more »

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Polyester is a 1981 American comedy film directed, produced, and written by John Waters, and starring Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey, and Mink Stole. It is a send-up of the melodramatic genre of women's pictures, particularly those directed by Douglas Sirk, whose work directly influenced this film, as well as a satirical look at suburban life in the early 1980s involving divorce, abortion, adultery, alcoholism, foot fetishism, and the religious right.

• 1980s American films· 3,365T
• 1980s English-language films· 3,470T
• 1981 comedy films· 170T

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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror

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Multiple Maniacs is a 1970 independent American black comedy horror film composed, shot, edited, written, produced, and directed by John Waters, as his second feature film and first "talkie". It features several actors who were part of the Dreamland acting troupe for Waters' films, including Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, George Figgs, and Cookie Mueller. The plot follows a traveling troupe of sideshow freaks whose free shows end in the murder of their attendees. The film's title pays tribute to Herschell Gordon Lewis's Two Thousand Maniacs!, as Waters states in his book Shock Value.

• LGBT-related black comedy films· 61T
• 1970 LGBT-related films· 29T
• 1970 independent films· 25T

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Genre: Comedy

A day in the lives of a hit-and-run driver and her victim, and the bizarre things that happen to them... more »

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Mondo Trasho is a 1969 American 16mm mondo black comedy film by John Waters. The film stars Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary and Mink Stole. It contains very little dialogue, the story being told mostly through musical cues.

• 1960s American films· 1,966T
• 1960s English-language films· 3,309T
• 1969 directorial debut films· 44T

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Genre: Comedy

John Waters' first 16mm film, about a deranged nanny who kidnaps young girls and forces them to 'model... more »

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Eat Your Makeup is a 1968 short film directed by John Waters, starring Marina Melin, Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary, Howard Gruber, and Maelcum Soul.

• 1968 comedy films· 173T
• 1968 short films· 23T
• Cultural depictions of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis· 36T

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Genre: Short, Comedy

A John Waters film where Divine plays Diane Linkletter, daughter of Art Linkletter and commits suicide. more »

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The Diane Linkletter Story is a 1970 16mm short film by American filmmaker John Waters starring Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, and David Lochary.

• 1970 comedy films· 163T
• 1970 short films· 15T
• 1970s satirical films· 33T

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Genre: Short

John Waters' second film, shot on 8mm, and featuring Divine for the first time. Essentially a plotless collage of random incidents involving sex ... more »

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Roman Candles is a 1966 short film directed by John Waters and starring Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary, Mink Stole, and Maelcum Soul.

• 1966 short films· 25T
• 1960s short films· 122T
• American short films· 1,048T

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Genre: Short

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Hag in a Black Leather Jacket (1964) is a John Waters short film made in Baltimore, Maryland, starring Mona Montgomery and Mary Vivian Pearce.

• 1964 short films· 29T
• American black-and-white films· 21,326T
• 1960s short films· 122T