Cinematography: Chris Dapkins

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Chris Dapkins. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Citizen Jane: Battle for the City

2016 · Documentary · 92 min. · United States

Direction Matt Tyrnauer

Cast Thomas Campanella · Mindy Fullilove · Alexander Garvin · Paul Goldberger

Plot It captures the battle, half a century ago, between the activist Jane Jacobs and the urban planner Robert Moses: a fight for the future of New York.

7.0

135 votes

7.0

135 votes

The Swell Season

2011 · Documentary · 91 min. · United States

6.8

445 votes

6.8

445 votes

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

2017 · Documentary · 98 min. · United States

Direction Matt Tyrnauer

Cast Peter Bart · Scotty Bowers · Robert Hofler · William Mann

Plot A portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars.

6.2

113 votes

6.2

113 votes

Enlighten Us

2016 · Documentary · 93 min. · United States

Direction Jenny Carchman

Plot 'Enlighten Us: The Rise and Fall of James Arthur Ray' is the story of the motivational rock star's meteoric rise, fall and return to the $11 billion self-help industry after...

6.0

55 votes

6.0

55 votes

Memphis

2013 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Tim Sutton

Cast Willis Earl Beal · Constance Brantley · Larry Dodson · Devonte Hull

Plot A strange singer with God-given talent drifts through his adopted city of Memphis with its canopy of ancient oak trees, streets of shattered windows, and aura of burning spirituality. Surrounded...

4.7

30 votes

4.7

30 votes

A Woman, a Part

2016 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Elisabeth Subrin

Cast Maggie Siff · Cara Seymour · John Ortiz · Khandi Alexander

Plot An exhausted, workaholic actress, Anna Baskin, 44, abruptly extricates herself from a successful but mind-numbing TV role, returning to her past life in New York to reinvent herself.

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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

2019 · Documentary · 87 min. · United States

Direction Matt Wolf

Plot Marion Stokes secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years from 1975 until her death in 2012. For Marion taping was a form of activism to seek the...

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Birders: The Central Park Effect

2013 · Documentary · min. · United States

Direction Jeffrey Kimball

Cast Regina Alvarez · Anya Auerbach · Mike Bryant

Plot A diverse group of full-of-attitude New Yorkers reveals how a hidden world of beautiful wild birds in the middle of Manhattan has upended and magically transformed their lives.

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Pavilion

2012 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Tim Sutton

Cast Addie Bartlett · Aaron Buyea · Zach Cali · Cody Hamric

Plot Tim Sutton's debut feature, likened to films by Gus Van Sant and Pedro Costa, follows a laconic teenager (Max) who moves from an idyllic lakeside town to his father's home...

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Knife Point

2009 · Movie · 27 min. · United States

Direction Carlo Mirabella-Davis

Cast Lev Gorn · Davis Hall · Lucy McMichael · Caitlin Rider

Plot A family of evangelical Christians traveling through upstate New York give a ride to an unusual knife salesman.

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Itzhak

2017 · Documentary · 82 min. · United States

Direction Alison Chernick

Cast Itzhak Perlman · Alan Alda · Zubin Mehta

Plot A look at the life, work and religious heritage of violinist Itzhak Perlman.

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