18-04-1989
Birthday
Aries
Zodiac Sign
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Genres
65
Total Films
Alia Martine Shawkat, Алия Шокат, אלייה שאוקט, آلیا شوکت
Also known as (female)
Riverside, California, USA
Place of Birth
18-04-1989
Birthday
Aries
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
65
Total Films
Alia Martine Shawkat
Also Known As (female)
Riverside, California, USA
Place of Birth
actor
65 Works
producer
4 Works
director
6 Works
writer
1 Works
other
0 Works
The Listener
Beth is a helpline volunteer – part of the small army that gets on the phone every night across America, fielding calls from all kinds of people feeling lonely, broken, hopeless. Over the last year the tide has become a tsunami. As Beth goes through her shift, the stakes rise: is this the night she will lose someone? Save someone? Eventually, Beth’s own story comes to light, revealing why she does it. All along we remain with her: listening, comforting, connecting – patching the world back together, one stitch at a time.Year:
2024
Drift
After fleeing civil war in Liberia, a formerly-privileged refugee is barely scraping by in her new life in Greece when she strikes up an unexpected friendship with a rootless tour guide.Year:
2024
Jackass Forever
The Jackass crew, along with some newcomers, returns for one final round of hilarious, absurd, and dangerous stunts.Year:
2022
Being the Ricardos
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.Year:
2021
Love Spreads
It is time to record the all important second album and Glass Heart is breaking in a million pieces. Away from touring and performing the band is not in harmony, and no amount of history in Rockfield Studios is going to solve that. Three very different songwriters, one desperate producer, a label exec and a keyboard collide.Year:
2021
Eer
Based on real events, the short takes a poke at our cultural climate of paranoia and fake news.Year:
2021
The Letter Room
Richard, a lonely and well-meaning prison officer, is put in charge of reading and censoring the letters received by inmates.Year:
2020
First Cow
In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two team up on a dangerous scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner’s prized Jersey cow – the first, and only, in the territory.Year:
2020
Alina
As Nazis separate children from their parents in the Warsaw Ghetto, a gang of women risks everything to smuggle their friend’s three-month-old baby to safety. Inspired by true events.Year:
2019
Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town
A woman at rock bottom must find her way across Los Angeles in order to crash her ex-boyfriend's engagement party.Year:
2018
Duck Butter
Dissatisfied with the dishonesty they see in dating, strangers Naima and Sergio make a pact to spend 24 straight hours together in an attempt to fast forward their relationship.Year:
2018
20th Century Women
In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.Year:
2016
The Intervention
A weekend getaway for four couples takes a sharp turn when one of the couples discovers the entire trip was orchestrated to host an intervention on their marriage.Year:
2016
Paint It Black
A young woman attempts to deal with the death of her boyfriend while continuously confronted by his mentally unstable mother.Year:
2016
Green Room
A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing an act of violence at a skinhead bar.Year:
2016
10 Crosby
A series of short films following the interconnected lives on Crosby street, New York City.Year:
2016
Wild Canaries
When their elderly neighbor suddenly drops dead, a young Brooklyn couple investigates signs of foul play.Year:
2014
Night Moves
The story about three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.Year:
2014
The To Do List
Feeling pressured to become more sexually experienced before she goes to college, Brandy Klark makes a list of things to accomplish before hitting campus in the fall.Year:
2013
The Moment
Fearing she may be responsible, a mental patient (Jennifer Jason Leigh) tries to unravel the mystery behind her ex-lover's (Martin Henderson) disappearance.Year:
2013
Setup, Punch
Showing that there is always a reason to laugh, stand-up comic Reuben Stein does the most daring set of his life. The consequences will change his life forever and allow him to discover the true nature of performance.Year:
2013
Getting Stoned with Sophia Takal
Sophia's friends decide to leave so she can get stoned with Caveh and talk about interpersonal relationships, future plans, and a forwarded email.Year:
2013
The End of Love
Mark is a struggling actor stuck between the life he once knew and the one waiting for him. When the mother of his two-year-old son suddenly passes away, Mark is forced to confront his shortcomings. Their fates, now intertwined, hang in the balance as Mark grapples with his ability to grow up. When he meets Lydia, a young mother, he is no longer able to live in the comfort of denial.Year:
2013
The Brass Teapot
When a couple discovers that a brass teapot makes them money whenever they hurt themselves, they must come to terms with how far they are willing to go.Year:
2012
Ruby Sparks
Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.Year:
2012
Damsels in Distress
A trio of beautiful girls set out to revolutionize life at a grungy American university: the dynamic leader Violet Wister, principled Rose and sexy Heather. They welcome transfer student Lily into their group which seeks to help severely depressed students with a program of good hygiene and musical dance numbers.Year:
2012
The Wrong Ferarri
A presentation of surreal, somewhat connected images, where Greenster goes through love affairs, game shows and lots and lots of ketamine.Year:
2011
Cedar Rapids
A naive Midwesterner insurance salesman travels to a big-city convention in an effort to save the jobs of his co-workers.Year:
2011
The Runaways
Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for The Runaways -- the now-legendary group that paved the way for future generations of female rockers. Under the Svengali-like influence of impresario Kim Fowley, the band becomes a huge success.Year:
2010
Whip It
In Bodeen, Texas, Land Of The Dragon, an indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin.Year:
2009
Prom Wars: Love Is a Battlefield
Two rival boys-only private schools end up competing for prom dates from a nearby all-girls private school. Caught in the middle is a scholarship student, Percy, at the more cerebral academy of the two. He had been dating Diana, but haughty silver-spoon student Geoffrey at the elite school of the well-off derailed them. So Diana came up with this plan as a way to make the immature boys both pay penance for their classless behavior and to have them actually earn their dates instead of merely expecting them. Which school will win the war? What if the faculties find out? How crazy will things get as the competition heats up?Year:
2008
Queen of Cactus Cove
Teenage chess champ Billie (Alia Shawkat) faces the prospect of defeat for the first time when she faces her best friend (Alex Frost) at the biggest chess tournament of her career.Year:
2005
Rebound
An acclaimed college hoops coach is demoted to a junior varsity team after a public meltdown.Year:
2005
Three Kings
A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.Year:
1999
The Wrong Girls
Two aimless young women inadvertently gain telepathic abilities after ingesting an experimental drug, pitting them against dangerous rivals pursuing the same powerful substance.Year:
-
Atropia
When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.Year:
2025
Blink Twice
When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. But despite the epic setting, beautiful people, ever-flowing champagne, and late-night dance parties, Frida can sense that there’s something sinister hiding beneath the island’s lush façade.Year:
2024
Byron Bowers: Spiritual N***a
After a life-altering revelation while tripping on psychedelic mushrooms, comedian Byron Bowers stumbles straight from the desert into the Decatur Boxing Club, to deliver an intimate set in his hometown Atlanta. Byron talks about his long journey to his first comedy special, the stigma of mental health, and how tripping on mushrooms made him understand his schizophrenic father and altered the way he feels about his Blackness.Year:
2022
The Thanksgiving Play
Larissa FastHorse’s wickedly funny comedy finds a troupe of terminally “woke” teaching artists scrambling to create a pageant that manages to celebrate both Turkey Day and Native American Heritage Month.Year:
2021
Transparent: Musicale Finale
When the Pfeffermans face a life-changing loss, they begin a journey hilarious and melancholy, brazen and bold. As they face this new transition, they confront grief and come together to celebrate connection, joy, and transformation.Year:
2019
Animals
Laura and Tyler are best friends and drinking buddies whose hedonistic existence falls under the creeping horror of adulthood when Laura gets engaged to Jim – an ambitious pianist who surprisingly decides to go teetotal.Year:
2019
Shako Mako
“Farah,” a bread seller, walks the streets of a Middle Eastern town, while an American military vehicle, surrounded by soldiers, slowly passes by. A moment’s silence. Then, a devastating explosion. Civilians are bloodied, wounded. The horrors of war. “Farah” looks around aghast and wailing. But nothing here is quite what it seems. In fact, “Farah” is a character played by an aspiring actress called Laila. And this isn’t Iraq, but a replica village erected on the Fort Irwin army base in California, used to train American troops before being sent abroad. Laila believes her acting talents are being wasted away in this arid simulation, where female role-players are limited to mute, background roles. She takes things much more seriously. Laila plots her way out.Year:
2019
Blaze
Re-imagining the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting Texas legend.Year:
2018
The Good Time Girls
A group of women band together as they go to war against a pack of men who have done them wrong at every turn.Year:
2017
Adam Green's Aladdin
In this retelling of the classic tale, Aladdin is an out of work indie-rock singer living in a video-game-world ruled by a perverted technology-obsessed Sultan.Year:
2016
Pee-wee's Big Holiday
A fateful meeting with a mysterious stranger inspires Pee-wee Herman to take his first-ever holiday.Year:
2016
Me Him Her
Three very different people in their twenties try to figure out love, sex, identity and friendship in Los Angeles.Year:
2016
Prestige Ingredients
A stifled Hollywood actress is hired by a chef in Paris for an unlikely role.Year:
2016
Nasty Baby
A gay couple enlists the help of their friend Polly to create a baby. Meanwhile, they must also contend with their homophobic neighbour who becomes a big nuisance.Year:
2015
The Final Girls
A young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.Year:
2015
The Driftless Area
Pierre Hunter, a bartender with unyielding optimism, returns to his tiny hometown after his parents' death. When he falls for the enigmatic Stella, Pierre is unknowingly pulled into a cat-and-mouse game that involves a duffel bag full of cash, a haphazard yet determined criminal, and a mystery that will determine all of their fates. A contemporary fable about the ways we struggle to control time and fate in a possibly predetermined universe.Year:
2015
May in the Summer
A bride-to-be is forced to reevaluate her life when she reunites with her family in Jordan and finds herself confronted with the aftermath of her parents’ divorce.Year:
2014
In Short: Show Girl Sexuality
'In Short' is a five episode series that puts actors behind the camera to create their own short-form documentaries. Each documentary tells vastly different stories based on the passions of the individual actor. In a world where girls her age line up to dance proactively, Alia Shawkat brings up an important conversation on a woman's power in sexuality and where that line blurs by taking a look at her family's business, a Gentlemen's Club in Palm Springs.Year:
2014
Bunion
The story of a man, his foot and finding happiness.Year:
2014
Center Jenny
The film focuses on the life of Jenny who has, according to many of the other characters, become too “left-of-center” while pursuing her interests.Year:
2013
The Arrested Development Documentary Project
Featuring interviews from major cast and crew members, along with 200 fans from across the country, this documentary tells the whole story of this amazing and one of a kind tv show.Year:
2013
That's What She Said
Longtime best friends Bebe and DeeDee are both wrestling with love. Bebe has met someone new and is in the exuberant phase of a budding romance. DeeDee is trying to move on from someone she can’t forget – mostly in destructive ways. As Bebe waits for the perpetually late DeeDee at their favorite coffee shop, she meets Clementine, a distraught young woman with love problems of her own. With Clementine in tow, Bebe and DeeDee soon embark on the kind of outrageous misadventure that only New York City can offer.Year:
2012
The Lie
A man's life is altered unexpectedly after telling a lie to get out of work.Year:
2011
The Oranges
A man's affair with his friend's much-younger daughter throws two neighboring families into turmoil.Year:
2011
Best Coast: Our Deal
Two gangs. One ruled the streets by day. The other by night. It was only a matter of time before their paths crossed.Year:
2011
Amreeka
Eager to provide a better future for her son, Fadi, divorcée Muna Farah leaves her Palestinian homeland and takes up residence in rural Illinois -- just in time to encounter the domestic repercussions of America's disastrous war in Iraq. Now, the duo must reinvent their lives with some help from Muna's sister, Raghda, and brother-in-law, Nabeel.Year:
2009
Bart Got a Room
Danny Stein, a high school senior at the bottom of the social food chain, needs a prom date. As a cause of anxiety for Danny, Bart Beeber, the nerdiest guy in school, has already found a date. At the same time, Danny's divorced parents are both looking for relationships again.Year:
2008
Deck the Halls
Determined to unseat Steve Finch's reign as the town's holiday season king, Buddy Hall plasters his house with so many decorative lights that it'll be visible from space! When their wives bond, and their kids follow suit, the two men only escalate their rivalry - and their decorating.Year:
2006
Not Like Everyone Else
A teenager fights to clear her name after her small Oklahoma town mistakenly assumes she is practicing witchcraft. Based on a true story.Year:
2006
The Trial of Old Drum
Inspired by a true story set in Missouri, "The Trial of Old Drum" tells the story of a valiant golden retriever, Old Drum, an orphan dog that becomes a boy's best friend and is then forced to stand trial for killing a neighbor's sheep.Year:
2000
