Ricki Lake Movies

Today is Jimmy's last day alive. His Alzheimer's is worsening, so he's decided to die like he has lived - with intention, humor, and zest. In his...

A young man of the rock and roll generation is in his senior year of high school. When one day he successfully gets on a popular teen dance...

King is a young man, but he's already a veteran of life on the streets of Los Angeles. The de facto leader of a group of teenage runaways, King acts...

Documentary about the making of John Waters' 1990 film Cry-Baby.

An off beat comedy about an out of work screen writing/artist that complains about being too cool, too talented and way too gay.

Cookie Voltecki is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco, who has just finished thirteen years in prison. Since being released from jail,...

Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine (1945-1988) was the ultimate outsider turned underground hero. Spitting in the face of the status quos of body...

A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.

In Denver, a fleeing bank robber kills a cop and kidnaps an old man to hold as a hostage. He is chased by the police and a news helicopter, which...

A man rents a room in a couple's house and roams the streets at night looking for victims to skin, while constantly being followed by a junkie he...

After making it to the top of the charts, members of the Silver Boulders, a popular tween rock band, find themselves undermined by internal...

Grace is an overweight mortuary cosmetician who falls in love with Rob, a handsome subway train conductor who doesn't even know she exists. When she...

The uplifting and heart-wrenching struggles of families who treat their cancer-stricken children with marijuana, some with astonishing results.

A small-town cat-and-dog detective duo investigate a new neighbor who they believe may have committed a murder, but the snag is, locals are...

Birth: it's a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part of life. But more than anything, birth is a business. Compelled to find answers after a...

Executive Producer Ricki Lake and Filmmaker Abby Epstein follow their landmark documentary,'The Business of Being Born', with an all-new, four part...

A family comes to grips with their own grief after the eldest daughter is killed.