An Open Secret

Nov 14, 2014

1h 39m

★ 6.9

Be courageous. Report it. Life gets better.

Overview

An investigation into accusations of teenagers being sexually abused within the film industry.

Genres

Documentary

Crime

Production Companies

Disarming Films

Esponda Productions

An Open Secret Trailers

Cast

Self

Evan Henzi

Self

Michael Egan III

Self - Actor, Diff'rent Strokes

Todd Bridges

Self

Joey Coleman

Self

Nicholas Stojanovich

Self - Child Talent Manager

Michael Harrah

Self - Investigative Journalist

John Connolly

Self - Co-Founder, BizParentz

Anne Henry

Self - Professor, Occidental College

Caroline Heldman

Self - Author, Perv: The Sexual Deviant In All of Us

Jesse Bering

Self - Former Los Angeles Times reporter

Dawn Chmielewski

Self - Prosecutor, Marty Weiss case

Michelle Pincus

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.

7.5

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Jun 22, 1988

'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.

No Image

0.0

The Wheat Industry

Invalid Date

Tells the life story of a grain of wheat In Casselton, North Dakota.

7.2

Irreversible

May 22, 2002

A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.

7.7

Bad is Bad

Aug 6, 2011

A locally loved suburban family man has to pay for the worst thing he's ever done when two mysterious young criminals break into his home.

7.2

Straw Dogs

Nov 25, 1971

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate.

7.0

Good Game

Mar 11, 2014

Creative and competitive, members of the Evil Geniuses Starcraft 2 team must prove themselves to make the cut in professional video gaming. Good Game follows the team as they discover that one wrong move could end their dreams.

6.3

Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom

Apr 6, 2002

Naomi Kawase's documentary about Nishii Kazuo, a photo critic. He is the last chief editor for the Camera Mainichi magazine, rushing through his time with Araki Nobuyoshi and Moriyama Daido as provocative artists in the photograph world.

5.8

You Can't Do Everything at Once, But You Can Leave Everything at Once

May 23, 2013

It all began on a couch. He watched her undress and they made love for the first time.

10.0

Osé

Mar 2, 2023

What can be harder than "conquering the world" for an Italian woman of the XX century? Creating the perfect family.

7.5

James Dean: Rebel Generation

Sep 20, 2025

The antithesis of the virile heroes of his era, James Dean shook up the representation of adolescence and masculinity in three films shot in 1955, the same year he died in a car accident at the age of 24—exactly seventy years ago: Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden, and Giant. This meteoric rise made him an instant icon, frozen in eternal, rebellious youth, which still resonates strongly today.

6.7

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children

Jan 1, 1979

In this astonishing twelve-part project for and about television — the title of which refers to a 19th-century French primer Le tour de la France par deux enfants — Godard and Miéville take a detour through the everyday lives of two children in contemporary France.

6.5

Profilers: Gaze Into the Abyss

Jan 23, 2014

Documentary about the work of 6 criminal profilers around the world.

6.6

School of Babel

Mar 12, 2014

They just arrived in France. They are Irish, Serbs, Brazilians Tunisians, Chinese and Senegalese ... For a year, Julie Bertuccelli filmed talks, conflicts and joys of this group of students aged 11 to 15 years, together in the same class to learn French.

7.2

Point Break

Jul 12, 1991

In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.

5.8

Against Their Will

Oct 29, 1994

Behind prison walls, corruption, sex and power make criminals out of the guards and heroes out of the guarded. For more than a decade, the lawless guards inside a maximum security women's prison have reigned with impunity - rape, sex for money and illegal favors have become the norm until one woman decides to battle the system. Leading a group of inmates on a risky life-or-death struggle for justice, a ten year silence is finally broken, exposing the twisted truth to the world and enabling the prisoners the freedom to live without fear.

8.0

The Battle of The Alamo

Mar 9, 1996

No overview available.

7.3

Eastern Promises

Sep 14, 2007

A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

7.1

Capturing the Friedmans

May 30, 2003

An Oscar nominated documentary about a middle-class American family who is torn apart when the father Arnold and son Jesse are accused of sexually abusing numerous children. Director Jarecki interviews people from different sides of this tragic story and raises the question of whether they were rightfully tried when they claim they were innocent and there was never any evidence against them.