Topic: Photography
Explore the top movies, series, and documentaries on Photography. Enjoy the must-watch titles that define this topic.
Rear Window
1954 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Alfred Hitchcock
Cast James Stewart · Grace Kelly · Thelma Ritter · Raymond Burr
Plot A professional photographer, L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries (Stewart), is obliged to stay at home because he broke a leg. Despite the company of his girlfriend (Kelly) and his nurse (Ritter), he...
8.2
75K votes
8.2
75K votes
The Salt of the Earth
2014 · Documentary · 100 min. · France
Direction Wim Wenders · Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Cast Sebastião Salgado
Plot During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of...
8.1
9K votes
8.1
9K votes
McCullin
2012 · Documentary · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Morris · Jacqui Morris
Cast Don McCullin
Plot To many, Don McCullin is the greatest living war photographer, often cited as an inspiration for today's photojournalists. For the first time, McCullin speaks candidly about his three-decade career covering...
7.8
259 votes
7.8
259 votes
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
2004 · Documentary · 85 min. · United States
Direction Ross Kauffman · Zana Briski
Plot While documenting the experiences of prostitutes in Calcutta's red-light district, photojournalist Zana Briski befriended many of their children and decided to provide them with a chance to record images from...
7.7
2K votes
7.7
2K votes
The Killing Fields
1984 · Movie · 136 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roland Joffé
Cast Sam Waterston · Haing S. Ngor · John Malkovich · Julian Sands
Plot An American journalist from The New York Times, Sidney, is engulfed in the horror of Cambodia, and his native adviser disappears and is thought to be dead.
7.6
15K votes
7.6
15K votes
Smoke
1995 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Wayne Wang
Cast Harvey Keitel · William Hurt · Stockard Channing · Forest Whitaker
Plot In 1990, novelist Paul Auster was asked to contribute a Christmas story to the New York Times. The resulting piece, "Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story," forms the basis for his screenplay...
7.6
18K votes
7.6
18K votes
War Photographer
2001 · Documentary · 95 min. · Switzerland
Direction Christian Frei
Cast James Nachtwey
Plot A film about the American photographer James Nachtwey, about his motivation, his fears and his daily routine as a war photographer. If we believe Hollywood pictures, war photographers are all...
7.6
1K votes
7.6
1K votes
The Bridges of Madison County
1995 · Movie · 135 min. · United States
Direction Clint Eastwood
Cast Meryl Streep · Clint Eastwood · Annie Corley · Victor Slezak
Plot The path of Francesca Johnson's future seems destined when an unexpected fork in the road causes her to question everything she had come to expect from life. While her husband...
7.5
75K votes
7.5
75K votes
Tales by Light (TV Series)
2015 · Documentary · 23 min. · Australia
Direction Abraham Joffe
Cast Art Wolfe
Plot Behind every powerful image is a powerful story. Uniting exploration, photography and the natural world, Tales By Light follows photographers from Australia and around the world as they push the...
7.5
497 votes
7.5
497 votes
World Press Photo 2020: Visita Guiada
2020 · Documentary · 40 min. · Spain
Direction Ana de Quadras Ayuso
7.4
32 votes
7.4
32 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 City of Photographers
2006 · Documentary · 80 min. · Chile
Direction Sebastián Moreno
7.4
247 votes
7.4
247 votes
Martha: A Picture Story
2019 · Documentary · 84 min. · United States
Direction Selina Miles
Plot In 1970s New York, photographer Martha Cooper captured some of the first images of graffiti at a time when the city had declared war it. Decades later, Cooper has become...
7.3
56 votes
7.3
56 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...
7.3
87 votes
7.3
87 votes
Hello Cubans
1971 · Documentary · 30 min. · France
Direction Agnès Varda
Plot A half-hour photo montage made up of 1500 out of over 4000 pictures Agnes Varda took while vacationing in Cuba. It deals with the revolution of Fidel Castro and his...
7.3
283 votes
7.3
283 votes
Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro
2016 · Documentary · 79 min. · United States
Direction Max Lewkowicz
Cast Tony Vaccaro
Plot An HBO Documentary Film. Tony Vaccaro, a WWII infantryman, smuggled his $47.00 portable camera into battle to create one of the most comprehensive and intimate records of the war.
7.3
41 votes
7.3
41 votes
Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures (TV)
2013 · Documentary · 70 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jill Nicholls
Cast Alan Yentob
7.3
25 votes
7.3
25 votes
Finding Vivian Maier
2013 · Documentary · 83 min. · United States
Direction John Maloof · Charlie Siskel
Plot Who is Vivian Maier? Now considered one of the 20th century's greatest street photographers, Vivian Maier was a mysterious nanny who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that went unseen during...
7.3
1K votes
7.3
1K votes
Civil War
2024 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Alex Garland
Cast Kirsten Dunst · Wagner Moura · Cailee Spaeny · Stephen Henderson
Plot In a near future where America is engulfed in a bloody civil war, a team of journalists and war photographers embark on a road trip to Washington DC. Their mission:...
7.2
5K votes
7.2
5K votes
Peeping Tom
1960 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Powell
Cast Karlheinz Böhm · Moira Shearer · Anna Massey · Maxine Audley
Plot As a boy, Mark Lewis was subjected to bizarre experiments by his scientist-father, who wanted to study and record the effects of fear on the nervous system. Now grown up,...
7.2
6K votes
7.2
6K votes