October Films

October Films was an American independent film production company and distributor founded in 1991 by Bingham Ray and Jeff Lipsky as a means of distributing the 1990 film Life Is Sweet. It is unrelated to the UK-based factual television production company October Films Limited, founded in 1989 and still trading successfully.

A series of mergers and acquisitions began when Universal Pictures (then a division of the Seagram Company) bought a majority stake in October Films in 1997. Universal then sold its shares to Barry Diller in 1999, who renamed the company USA Films and merged it with Gramercy Pictures. Vivendi then acquired USA Films, who in 2002 acquired Good Machine and merged it with USA Films, forming Focus Features.

Filmography

Distributor

• Rebro Adama (1990) (1992)
• Life Is Sweet (1990) (1991)
• Tous les matins du monde (1991) (1992)
• Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright (1992) (1993)
• Un coeur en hiver (1992) (1993)
• The Tune (1992)
• Ruby in Paradise (1993)
• Bad Behaviour (1993)
• The Cement Garden (1993) (1994)
• Cronos (1993) (1994)
• The War Room (1993)
• Kika (1993) (1994)
• The Silence of the Hams (1994)
• The Last Seduction (1994)
• Killing Zoe (1994)
• Dellamorte Dellamore (1994) (1996)
• Colonel Chabert, Le (1994)
• Nadja (1994) (1995)
• Moving the Mountain (1994) (1995)
• Riget (1994) (1995)
• Pao Da Shuang Deng (1994) (1995)
• Kuang ye sheng si lian (1995)
• Search and Destroy (1995)
• When Night Is Falling (1995)
• Mécaniques célestes (1995) (1996)
• Someone Else's America (1995) (1996)
• Badkonake sefid (White Balloon) (1995) (1996)
• The Addiction (1995)
• Haunted (1995)
• Girls Town (1996)
• Female Perversions (1996) (1997)
• Small Faces (1996)
• Breaking the Waves (1996)
• Secrets & Lies (1996)
• Hollow Point (1996)
• The Funeral (1996)
• Lucie Aubrac (1997)
• Natural Enemy (1997)
• Lost Highway (1997)
• Traveller (1997)
• Kiss or Kill (1997)
• Year of the Horse (1997)
• Kicked in the Head (1997)
• Career Girls (1997)
• 24 7: Twenty Four Seven (1997) (1998)
• Still Breathing (1997)
• The Apostle (1997)
• Riget II (1997)
• High Art (1998)
• Thick as Thieves (1998)
• Idioterne (1998)
• Crna macka, beli macor (1998)
• Testimone dello sposo, Il (1998) (1999)
• Festen (1998)
• Safe Men (1998)
• A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)
• Hilary and Jackie (1998)
• Conte d'automne (1998) (1999)
• The Last Days (1998) (1999)
• Alice et Martin (1998)
• The Best Man (1999/II film) (1999/II)
• Cookie's Fortune (1999)
• Three Seasons (1999)
• Sugar Town (1999)
• Trippin' (1999)
• Agnes Browne (1999)
• The Muse (1999)
• Topsy-Turvy (1999)
• Detour (1999)
• Up at the Villa (2000)
• Cherry Falls (2000)

Production company

• Search and Destroy (1995)
• The Addiction (1995)
• Man with a Gun (1995/I)
• Haunted (1995)
• The Funeral (1996)
• Juedi fanji (1997)
• Lost Highway (1997)
• High Art (1998)
• The Naked Man (1998)
• Alice et Martin (1998)
• The Death Train (1998)
• Three Seasons (1999)
• Sugar Town (1999)
• Rosetta (1999)
• Agnes Browne (1999)
• The Muse (1999)
• Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999)
• Ray Harryhausen: Working with Dinosaurs (1999)
• Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano (2000)
• Joe Gould's Secret (2000)
• Condo Painting (2000)
• Up at the Villa (2000)
• Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven' (2000)
• Boricua's Bond (2000)
• Series 7: The Contenders (2001)
• One Night at McCool's (2001)
• Session 9 (2001)
• The Last Days (2001)

References

• October Films at IMDb
• Focus Features
• October Films UK