Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With Margaret Smith

1. Lost Horizons

Drama | Pre-production

Based on the award-winning, Jesus of Suburbia, LOST HORIZONS explores Doug Hopkins' roller coaster life as co-founder of rock band Gin Blossoms and writer of hit "Hey Jealousy" amid his battle with depression and struggle with alcoholism.

2. Dead Within (2014)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Six months after the outbreak, a man and woman have survived by isolating themselves in a remote cabin. Starved for resources, they must confront the horrors that threaten them from outside and from within.

Director: Ben Wagner | Stars: Dean Chekvala, J. Claude Deering, Rick Federman, Sarah McMaster

Votes: 1,086

3. Boats Against the Current (2012)

11 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

Post breakup, a couple meets to exchange belongings and quickly becomes mired in the past when one invokes the hope of 'The Great Gatsby' in an unexpected contemporary light. Cutting ... See full summary »

Director: David Anderson | Stars: Jason Ritter, Kelen Coleman, Will Greenberg, Cash O'Malley

Votes: 6

4. Spent Saints & Other Stories (2017–2019)

Drama

A series of shorts based on the powerful collection of linked stories "Spent Saints and Other Stories" by Brian Jabas Smith.

Stars: Ian Reier Michaels, Shira Weitz, Hunter Bolton, Joshua Deocariza

5. No Love Song (2013)

15 min | Short, Music

Lee and Julia's breakup was a disaster. What happens when they have to write that one last song together?

Director: Joselito Seldera | Stars: Daniel Ahearn, Rosanna Arquette, Tripp Beam, Tommy Fleming

Votes: 13

6. Spent Saints: The Micro Shorts (2017)

Drama

A series of micro shorts based on the powerful collection of linked stories "Spent Saints and Other Stories" by Brian Jabas Smith.

Stars: Tim Lacatena, Michael Villar, Ian Reier Michaels, Carol Matthews-Nicoli

7. The Whole Enchilada (2021)

28 min | Documentary, Short

The Whole Enchilada is a short documentary produced by Sand Rubies' guitarist Rich Hopkins and directed by Maggie Smith which explores the roots of Tucson's own desert rock music.

Director: Margaret Smith | Stars: Jim Brady, Howe Gelb, George Hawke, Billy Sedlmayr

8. Tucson Salvage (2018)

32 min | Documentary, Short

A meditation on five humans living on the margins in Tucson, Arizona. Through perseverance, each has found their own path through hardship and suffering.

Director: Margaret Smith

9. The Price of Air (2013)

15 min | Short, Action, Adventure

A young pirate radio DJ, in 1981, deals with an opportunity to work for a major radio station, as his friends feel that he is about to 'sell out.'

Director: Yonatan K. Mallinger | Stars: José Rodrigues, Sarah De La Isla, Damian Greco, Ken Belsky

10. Spent Saints & Other Stories (2017–2019)
Episode: Ghosts and Fireflies (2019)

Drama

Depressed and suicidal, a middle-aged Julian contemplates suicide, only held back by the thought of breaking his true love's heart.

Directors: Sophia Kiapos, J. Garrett Vorreuter | Stars: Lorin Doctor, Loring Greene, Ian Reier Michaels, Donovan Samson-Kunert

11. Spent Saints & Other Stories (2017–2019)
Episode: No Wheels (2019)

9 min | Drama

Julian holes up in Phoenix, only leaving his apartment to walk to the convenience store to buy a 40-ounce malt liquor. He befriends the store clerk and his neighbor, and they share truth and brotherhood on Julian's front stoop.

Director: Matthew Bradford | Stars: Aris Alvarado, Bailey Bagheri, Daniel Hakim, Amanda Klein

12. Spent Saints & Other Stories (2017–2019)
Episode: Grams (2019)

8 min | Drama

When Julian and Serena run out of crystal meth, they are forced to trudge on foot across town to her grandmother's apartment, where she ditches Julian to score and he is left jonesing and alone with her crazy Grams.

Director: Sara Newton | Stars: L.A. Abbott, Hunter Bolton, Will Craig, Melinda DeKay

13. Spent Saints & Other Stories (2017–2019)
Episode: Eye for Sin (2019)

9 min | Drama

Julian and his best friend Tinkles drive to their dealer's house in Phoenix to score crystal meth, only to find a pregnant tweaker, a woman whose face was eaten by maggots, and a hate-filled Jesus.

Director: Rani DeMuth | Stars: Louisiana Kidd Helnwein, Carol Matthews-Nicoli, Ian Reier Michaels, Michele Miskovich

14. Spent Saints: The Micro Shorts (2017)
Episode: Ghosts And Fireflies (2017)

Drama

"...how do you negotiate all your fears and all the faces from your history and still have room inside of you to live and participate in the world as it is now?"

Director: Shira Weitz | Stars: Tim Lacatena, Liberty Larsen

15. Spent Saints & Other Stories (2017–2019)
Episode: Lost in the Supermarket (2019)

9 min | Drama

Rowdy wakes up a drunk stranger on a lawn in his old suburban neighborhood, haunted by a heart-shattering divorce that leaves him hobbled and vulnerable in present day life.

Director: Rani DeMuth | Stars: Aidan Aaron, Alexis Christopher, Claudine Claudio, Aiden Colavitta

16. Spent Saints & Other Stories (2017–2019)
Episode: The Delivery Man (2019)

8 min | Drama

Julian continues to drink and falls in love with a single mother and exotic dancer, Serena, who turns him on to crystal meth. When Julian learns of his friend Rowdy's murder, he begins to question his lifestyle.

Director: Sara Newton | Stars: L.A. Abbott, Forest Baker, Hunter Bolton, Ken Breese

17. Spent Saints & Other Stories (2017–2019)
Episode: Spent Saints: Part 1 (2019)

9 min | Drama

Julian is weighed down by his wife's heroin addiction as he struggles to focus on what could be his band, Spent Saints, lucky day - a gig at LA's Rainbow Room and interest from legendary producer Lick Lubenstein.

Directors: Jonathan Paley, Violet Paley | Stars: Miranda Abernathy, Sammy Bass, Hunter Bolton, Purp Carey

18. Spent Saints & Other Stories (2017–2019)
Episode: Sirens (2019)

Drama

Tween sisters create their own alternative reality to escape the pain of their mother's meth addiction and suicide, shepherded by a kindly next-door neighbor.

Directors: Sarah Ledbetter, Matteo Servente | Stars: Bella Bingham, Jarad Bingham, Adela Calzada, Bart Mallard

19. Spent Saints & Other Stories (2017–2019)
Episode: Spent Saints: Part 2 (2019)

8 min | Drama

Julian and his lead guitarist are invited to producer Lick Lubenstein's Hollywood Hills home for a career-making opportunity. But Julian jeopardizes his band's career when cocaine tempers flare.

Directors: Jonathan Paley, Violet Paley | Stars: Amanda Armijo, Ellen Berman, Purp Carey, Rochelle Ceilia

20. Spent Saints & Other Stories (2017–2019)
Episode: The Old Ladies in Church Hats: Part 1 (2019)

8 min | Drama

Julian moves to Detroit, where his body finally gives out after years of alcohol abuse. Sick and white-knuckling, Julian worries that he will lose his edge as a journalist and his girlfriend now that he is sober.

Director: Victor Viyuoh | Stars: William Bookston, Mama Char, Char Leonard, Ian Reier Michaels

21. Spent Saints & Other Stories (2017–2019)
Episode: The Old Ladies in Church Hats: Part 2 (2019)

8 min | Drama

Newly sober and just getting by, Julian is fired and dumped, and turns to the AA meeting in a nearby Detroit basement for help and strength.

Director: Victor Viyuoh | Stars: William Bookston, Ian Reier Michaels

22. Spent Saints & Other Stories (2017–2019)
Episode: Grand-Prix (2019)

8 min | Drama

Julian has fallen on hard times, drinking all night in a liquor store parking lot and reminiscing about his adolescence, when he transcended an abusive father and schoolyard bullies by training to become a world class bicycle racer.

Director: Sophia Kiapos | Star: Ian Reier Michaels

23. Spent Saints: The Micro Shorts (2017)
Episode: The Old Ladies in Church Hats (2017)

Drama

"It took a few weeks to even begin to feel that line where my skin ended and the world started."

Director: Curtis Endicott | Star: Tim Lacatena

24. Spent Saints: The Micro Shorts (2017)
Episode: Lost in the Supermarket (2017)

Drama

"Ain't such a bad way to go."

Director: Itai Lev | Star: Michael Villar

25. Spent Saints: The Micro Shorts (2017)
Episode: The Grand Prix (2017)

Drama

"I'm a monster living by the second and my head begs me to stop and my blood feels like fire."

Director: Tim Gillis | Star: Tim Lacatena

26. Spent Saints: The Micro Shorts (2017)
Episode: Spent Saints (2017)

Drama

Chances blown and the morning after.

Director: Zach Drummer | Stars: Hunter Bolton, Geovonie Evans, Tim Lacatena, Carol Matthews-Nicoli

27. Spent Saints: The Micro Shorts (2017)
Episode: No Wheels (2017)

Drama

"I was really only happy once the sun went down and the beer was flowing."

Director: L.A. Abbott | Star: Tim Lacatena

28. Spent Saints: The Micro Shorts (2017)
Episode: Eye for Sin (2017)

Drama

"Weeds grew up through the chaos and you could taste the rust on your tongue. A barricade passing itself off as some blue-collar art installation depicting a meth-damaged vision of Eden."

Director: Keith Vonkraig Taylor

29. Spent Saints: The Micro Shorts (2017)
Episode: The Delivery Man (2017)

Drama

"Nothing lasts where it never rains"

Director: Sara Newton | Stars: Tim Lacatena, Shira Weitz

30. Spent Saints: The Micro Shorts (2017)
Episode: Grams (2017)

Drama

" - light gave edges to the countless angels that marched back into dark recesses of that apartment."

Director: Dan Masso | Stars: Will Craig, Ian Reier Michaels

31. Spent Saints: The Micro Shorts (2017)
Episode: Serena and Julian: Dance with Crystal (2017)

Drama

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Director: Tony Carraba | Stars: Anthony Carr, Rayna Rebrovic