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

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

Cast Cristina García Rodero

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