Direction: Joshua Oppenheimer
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Joshua Oppenheimer. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 11
The Look of Silence
2014 · Documentary · 103 min. · Denmark
Direction Joshua Oppenheimer
Cast Adi Rukun · M.Y. Basrun · Amir Hasan · Inong Kemat
Plot Through Oppenheimer's footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian Genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as de identities of the killers. The documentary...
7.8
2K votes
7.8
2K votes
The Act of Killing
2012 · Documentary · 117 min. · Denmark
Direction Joshua Oppenheimer · Christine Cynn
Plot A documentary that challenges former Indonesian death squad leaders to reenact their real-life mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers. Anwar...
7.8
7K votes
7.8
7K votes
The End
2024 · Movie · 148 min. · Denmark
Direction Joshua Oppenheimer
Cast Tilda Swinton · Michael Shannon · George MacKay · Moses Ingram
Plot Two decades after the end of the world, a family lives in their luxurious bunker built in a salt mine. The son, a 20-year-old who has never seen the outside...
4.9
124 votes
4.9
124 votes
These Places We've Learned to Call Home
1996 · Documentary · 32 min. · United States
Direction Joshua Oppenheimer · Jacob Silber
Plot Experimental video and performance meditating on militias, American fundamentalism, the opening of the American West.
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The Globalisation Tapes
2003 · Documentary · 71 min. · Indonesia
Direction Joshua Oppenheimer · Christine Cynn
Cast Intan Sinaga · Sharman Sinaga
Plot Documentary film about oil palm plantation workers in North Sumatra.
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Land of Enchantment (S)
2000 · Documentary · 1 min. · United States
Direction Christine Cynn · Joshua Oppenheimer
Plot For eighty cents an hour, prisoners in a New Mexico prison answer telephones for the state tourism hotline. Co-directed by Christine Cynn.
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The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase
1998 · Documentary · 50 min. · United States
Direction Joshua Oppenheimer
Plot An enigmatic pseudo-documentary covering the stories of a woman who kills her baby in her microwave, the Native American genocide, and nuclear war.
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Postcard from Sun City, Arizona (S)
2003 · Documentary · min. · United States
Direction Joshua Oppenheimer
Plot Joshua Oppenheimer sets images of life in a retirement community in Arizona (as seen through television commercials) to a talk radio interview with a female convict extolling the benefits of...
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Muzak: A Tool of Management (S)
2002 · Documentary · min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joshua Oppenheimer
Plot Prior to releasing the Academy Award® -nominated documentary THE ACT OF KILLING, American filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer spent over a decade in Indonesia interviewing members of the Death Squads that murdered...
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Market Update (S)
2002 · Documentary · min. · United States
Direction Joshua Oppenheimer
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A Brief History of Paradise as Told by the Cockroaches (S)
2002 · Documentary · min. · United States
Direction Joshua Oppenheimer
Plot They say that when the Earth is destroyed beyond habitation, the only survivors will be the cockroaches. Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer gives the indomitable insects the floor in this perversely comic...
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