Topic: Photography

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The Man Who Saw Too Much

2015 · Documentary · 89 min. · Mexico

Direction Trisha Ziff

7.2

60 votes

7.2

60 votes

No me llames fotógrafo de guerra (TV)

2014 · Documentary · 70 min. · Spain

Direction Esther Vergara

7.2

241 votes

7.2

241 votes

Sympathy for the Devil

2019 · Movie · 103 min. · France

Direction Guillaume de Fontenay

Cast Niels Schneider · Ella Rumpf · Vincent Rottiers · Elisa Lasowski

Plot 1992, war is raging in what will become Ex-Yugoslavia. Paul is covering the siege of Sarajevo. Flamboyant dandy, loud mouth, adrenaline junkie, provocative cigar-smoker, Paul Marchand is the war correspondent...

7.2

305 votes

7.2

305 votes

Angelica [A Tragedy]

2016 · Documentary · 83 min. · Spain

Direction Manuel Fernández-Valdés

Cast Angélica Liddell

Plot 'Angélica [a tragedy]' is a film about a devout of art called Angélica Liddell and about the troubled relationship between creation and life.

7.1

89 votes

7.1

89 votes

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

2022 · Documentary · 113 min. · United States

Direction Laura Poitras

Plot It follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.

Max

7.1

960 votes

7.1

960 votes

Alberto García-Alix. La línea de sombra

2017 · Documentary · 82 min. · Spain

Direction Nicolás Combarro

Cast Alberto García-Alix

Plot "La línea de sombra" is the portrait of one of the most important photographers on the Spanish artistic scene, reference of an entire generation. A direct testimony of the lights...

7.1

117 votes

7.1

117 votes

Living the Light: Robby Müller

2018 · Documentary · 86 min. · Netherlands

Direction M. Claire Pijman

Cast Jim Jarmusch · Steve McQueen · Robby Müller · Lars von Trier

Plot DoP Robby Müller has inspired generations with his ground-breaking camerawork. Director Claire Pijman had access to his personal archive to create an extraordinary film essay that intertwines archival material with...

7.1

50 votes

7.1

50 votes

Everlasting Moments

2008 · Movie · 130 min. · Denmark

Direction Jan Troell

Cast Maria Heiskanen · Jesper Christensen · Mikael Persbrandt · Amanda Ooms

Plot Set in the early XXth century, the Ulm is based on the real life story of the grandmother of Jan Troell's wife. Maria is swept away by the loutish rake...

7.1

330 votes

7.1

330 votes

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens

2007 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Leibovitz

Cast Annie Leibovitz · Kirsten Dunst · Whoopi Goldberg · George Clooney

Plot This film traces the artistic self-realization of Annie Leibovitz, from childhood through the death of her beloved friend, Susan Sontag, and includes snippets of Leibovitz's last visual memories of Sontag....

7.0

256 votes

7.0

256 votes

Boat People

1982 · Movie · 111 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Ann Hui

Cast George Lam · Andy Lau · Season Ma · Lin Shujing

Plot A landmark of the nascent Hong Kong New Wave of the early '80s, this melodrama concerns the plight of Vietnamese peasants shortly after the fall of Saigon. The film centers...

7.0

105 votes

7.0

105 votes

Blow-Up

1966 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast David Hemmings · Vanessa Redgrave · Sarah Miles · Peter Bowles

Plot Thomas (David Hemmings) is a nihilistic, wealthy fashion photographer in mod "Swinging London." Filled with ennui, bored with his "fab" but oddly-lifeless existence of casual sex and drug use, Thomas...

7.0

14K votes

7.0

14K votes

Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures

2016 · Documentary · 108 min. · United States

Direction Fenton Bailey · Randy Barbato

Cast Deborah Harry · Fran Lebowitz · Brooke Shields

Plot An examination of the life and work of the revered and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

7.0

174 votes

7.0

174 votes

Witness (TV Miniseries)

2012 · Documentary · 240 min. · United States

Direction David Frankham

Plot Drug trafficking, poverty, gang violence, corruption and ethnic warfare have created some of the most dangerous hot spots on Earth. Witness follows our current generation of photojournalists into these conflict...

Max

6.9

34 votes

6.9

34 votes

Ship of Theseus

2012 · Movie · 140 min. · India

Direction Anand Gandhi

Cast Aida ElKashef · Sohum Shah · Neeraj Kabi · Vinay Shukla

Plot Explores questions of identity, justice, beauty, meaning and death through an experimental photographer, an ailing monk and a young stockbroker.

6.9

29 votes

6.9

29 votes

Uzak (Distant)

2002 · Movie · 110 min. · Turkey

Direction Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Cast Muzaffer Özdemir · Emin Toprak · Zuhal Gencer · Ebru Ceylan

Plot Having lost his job in a provincial town, a twentysomething Turk with limited prospects (Toprak) descends on his photographer cousin (Zdemir) in Istanbul and proceeds not only to disrupt his...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

6.9

92 votes

El ojo irónico

2023 · Documentary · 59 min. · Spain

6.9

26 votes

6.9

26 votes

That Most Important Thing: Love

1975 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Andrzej Zulawski

Cast Romy Schneider · Fabio Testi · Jacques Dutronc · Claude Dauphin

Plot Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier, who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Harrison's Flowers

2000 · Movie · 126 min. · France

Direction Elie Chouraqui

Cast Andie MacDowell · Elias Koteas · Brendan Gleeson · Adrien Brody

Plot Harrison Lloyd is a Pulitzer-winning photojournalist. His wife and family are making it hard for him to keep his mind on his work when he's in a war zone, and...

6.8

3K votes

6.8

3K votes