Direction: Nina Menkes

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Nina Menkes. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Phantom Love

2007 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

6.4

23 votes

6.4

23 votes

Queen of Diamonds

1991 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Nina Menkes

Cast Tinka Menkes

Plot Nina Menkes' second feature is composed of incidents in the life of a depressed Las Vegas blackjack dealer played by the director's sister and regular collaborator, Tinka Menkes. The first...

6.0

32 votes

6.0

32 votes

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

2022 · Documentary · 105 min. · United States

Direction Nina Menkes

Cast Catherine Hardwicke · Kathleen Antonia · Rosanna Arquette · Maria Giese

Plot Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women, with over 80 movie...

6.0

125 votes

6.0

125 votes

Dissolution

2010 · Movie · 88 min. · Israel

Direction Nina Menkes

Cast Didi Fire · Slava Bibergal · Yohanan Herson · Roni Yaniv

Plot Loosely inspired by Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", 'DISSOLUTION' combines an almost surreal fairy-tale energy with brutal black and white realism to explore the condition of violence which permeates contemporary Israeli...

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The Great Sadness of Zohara

1983 · Documentary · 40 min. · Israel

Direction Nina Menkes

Cast Tinka Menkes

Plot A young, orthodox Jewish woman is alienated from her Jerusalem community and drawn into the world of spirit. Surrounded by dark sounds of the "Other Side," she moves into remote...

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The Bloody Child

1996 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

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Magdalena Viraga

1987 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

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A Soft Warrior (S)

1981 · Movie · 11 min. · United States

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Massacre

2005 · Documentary · 98 min. · France

Direction Monika Borgmann · Lokman Slim · Hermann Theissen · Nina Menkes

Plot Interviews with six of the mass murderers from Sabra and Shatilla. The faces are in black and are not identifiable.

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