Directed by Robert Downey Sr. • 1964 • United States

Taylor Mead plays the president of the United Status, who, when he isn't at the White House, a dilapidated Victorian, conducts his top-secret affairs on a deserted beach. Robert Downey Sr.’s first feature is a rollicking, slapstick, ultra-lo...

Directed by Robert Downey Sr. • 1966 • United States

This riot of bad taste was a breakthrough for Robert Downey Sr., thanks to rave notices. Visualized largely in still 35 mm photographs, it follows a shiftless downtown Manhattanite having his “annual November breakdown” as he wanders from on...

Directed by Robert Downey Sr. and Robert Soukis • 1968 • United States

Downey takes his camera and microphone onto the streets (and into some bedrooms) for a look at Manhattan’s singles scene of the late sixties. Of course, that’s not all: NO MORE EXCUSES cuts between this footage and the frag...

Directed by Robert Downey Sr. • 1975 • United States

"A film without a beginning or an end," in Downey's words, this Dadaist thingamajig, a never-before-seen, newly reedited version of the director's 1975 release Moment to Moment (also known as Jive), is a rush of curious sketches, scenes, and...

Directed by Sean Price Williams • 2021 • United States

To pay tribute to one of his filmmaking heroes, Sean Price Willams adopts a style that’s just as out there as his subject, mixing new material and never-before-seen archival footage in this portrait of the underground film titan Robert Downe...

This conversation between BABO 73 director Robert Downey Sr. and filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson was recorded in 2012.

This conversation between NO MORE EXCUSES director Robert Downey Sr. and filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson was recorded in 2012.

This conversation between TWO TONS OF TURQUOISE director Robert Downey Sr. and filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson was recorded in 2012.