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Un país en Labordeta
2019 · Documentary · 70 min. · Spain
Direction Charlie Arnaiz · Alberto Ortega
7.4
33 votes
7.4
33 votes
Last Days Here
2011 · Documentary · 92 min. · United States
Direction Don Argott · Demian Fenton
Cast Bobby Liebling
Plot Documentary follows Bobby Liebling, lead singer of seminal hard rock/heavy metal band Pentagram, as he battles decades of hard drug addiction and personal demons to try and get his life...
7.4
424 votes
7.4
424 votes
Eyes of the Soul
2023 · Documentary · 70 min. · Spain
Direction Carlota Nelson
Plot Fiercely independent, critically acclaimed and self-taught, Spanish photographer Cristina García Rodero has, for more than half a century, borne witness to an unusual Spain, but her extensive, unhurried, insider reportage...
7.4
129 votes
7.4
129 votes
La silla de Fernando (Fernando's Chair)
2006 · Documentary · 85 min. · Spain
Direction David Trueba · Luis Alegre
Plot Fernando Fernán Gómez was born on 28th August 1921 in Lima (Peru) while his mother, the actress Carola Fernán-Gómez, was on tour with the theatre company María Guerrero-Fernando Díaz de...
7.4
2K votes
7.4
2K votes
Imagine: John Lennon
1988 · Documentary · 100 min. · United States
Direction Andrew Solt
Cast John Lennon · Yoko Ono · Paul McCartney · George Harrison
Plot This "biography" evolves around the nearly 240 hours of film and videotape fortuitously taken by Lennon of his life. The archive footage is transformed into a fascinating life story of...
7.4
914 votes
7.4
914 votes
Bird
1988 · Movie · 161 min. · United States
Direction Clint Eastwood
Cast Forest Whitaker · Diane Venora · Michael Zelniker · Samuel E. Wright
Plot This film is a tribute to the life and genius of saxophonist great Charlie Parker. Bird is a collage of passages from Parker's remarkable life, from his childhood in Kansas...
7.4
10K votes
7.4
10K votes
The Beaches of Agnès
2008 · Documentary · 110 min. · France
Direction Agnès Varda
Cast Agnès Varda · Yolande Moreau
Plot Autobiopraphic documentary about the director Agnes Várda. The french woman explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her...
7.4
622 votes
7.4
622 votes
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
2012 · Documentary · 99 min. · United States
Direction Matthew Akers · Jeff Dupre
Cast Marina Abramovic
Plot This feature-length documentary film follows the famous serbian artist Marina Abramovic as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her life: a major retrospective of her...
7.4
1K votes
7.4
1K votes
Disrupted
2013 · Documentary · 95 min. · Mexico
Direction Roberto Fiesco
Cast Coral Bonelli · Lilia Ortega (Doña Pinoles)
Plot The memory and testimony of two characters: Fernando García, known as Pinolito, who was a child actor in the seventies and Doña Lilia Ortega, his mother, an actress. Fernando came...
7.4
77 votes
7.4
77 votes
El testigo: Caín y Abel
2017 · Documentary · 73 min. · Colombia
Direction Kate Horne
Cast Jesús Abad Colorado
Plot The murders of his family in rural Colombia could have inspired a young Jesus Abad Colorado to pick up a gun; instead he bought a camera. Jesus dedicated the next...
7.4
99 votes
7.4
99 votes
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007 · Movie · 112 min. · France
Direction Julian Schnabel
Cast Mathieu Amalric · Emmanuelle Seigner · Marie-Josée Croze · Anne Consigny
Plot At 43, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the rakishly successful and charismatic editor in chief of French Elle was a man defined by his passion for life. On December 1995, he suffered a...
7.4
19K votes
7.4
19K votes
Aurora's Sunrise
2022 · Documentary · 96 min. · Armenia
Direction Inna Sahakyan
Cast Aurora Mardiganian
Plot A genocide survivor becomes a silent movie star: Aurora Mardiganian's odyssey is close to unreal. After losing her family, escaping slavery, and enduring Hollywood greed. She journeys far to tell...
7.4
135 votes
7.4
135 votes
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2022 · Documentary · 84 min. · United States
Direction Werner Herzog
Cast Katia Krafft · Maurice Krafft
Plot Drawing from the personal film archive of two passionate volcanologists, Werner Herzog explores humanity’s fascination with one of our planet’s most elemental forces.
7.4
119 votes
7.4
119 votes
Lola Montes
1955 · Movie · 110 min. · France
Direction Max Ophüls
Cast Martine Carol · Peter Ustinov · Anton Walbrook · Oskar Werner
Plot The film tells the tragic story of Lola Montès (1821-1861), a great adventurer who becomes the main attraction of a circus after being the lover of various important European men.
7.4
2K votes
7.4
2K votes
My Universities
1940 · Movie · 120 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Mark Donskoy
Cast Nikolai Valbert · Stepan Kayukov · Nikolai Dorokhin · Nikolai Plotnikov
Plot My Universities (Moi universiteti) is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in My Childhood (1938) and a torturous sojourn as...
7.4
55 votes
7.4
55 votes
The Last Movie Stars (TV Series)
2022 · Documentary · 55 min. · United States
Direction Ethan Hawke
Cast Laura Linney · Melanie Griffith · Sam Rockwell · Billy Crudup
Plot 'The Last Movie Stars' chronicles Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward's iconic careers and decades-long partnership. The history of their love, lives, and philanthropy.
7.4
203 votes
7.4
203 votes
Brando (TV)
2007 · Documentary · 165 min. · United States
Direction Leslie Greif · Mimi Freedman
Cast Marlon Brando · Robert Duvall · Martin Scorsese · Al Pacino
Plot The enigmatic and unparalleled Marlon Brando is examined in a new original documentary, Brando. The unmistakable voice, striking good looks and eccentric personality - and the complex inner life they...
7.4
349 votes
7.4
349 votes
Dream Of Light
1992 · Documentary · 139 min. · Spain
Direction Víctor Erice
Cast Antonio López
Plot Filmmaker Victor Erice travels deep into the world of an artist and his vision as he documents the dedication of Antonio Lopez Garcia, who is trying to paint a picture...
7.4
5K votes
7.4
5K votes
Advocate
2019 · Documentary · 110 min. · Israel
Direction Rachel Leah Jones · Philippe Bellaiche
Plot A look at the life and work of Jewish-Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel who has represented political prisoners for nearly 50 years. Tsemel defends Palestinians: from feminists to fundamentalists, from non-violent...
7.4
122 votes
7.4
122 votes
Jaime
1974 · Documentary · 35 min. · Portugal
Direction António Reis
Cast Jaime Fernandes
Plot The world, life and work of Jaime Fernandes, a peasant born in Barcos, Portugal, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at the age of 38 and interned in a sanatorium...
7.4
100 votes
7.4
100 votes