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Apple TV
82
7.3
/6091/
74
/331/
67
/114/
3.9
/34780/
98
/135/
79
/17/
87
/31/
cc age 15+

The Velvet Underground (2021)
Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd Haynes, this kaleidoscopic oral history combines exclusive interviews with dazzling archival footage.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
81
7.3
/152535/
73
/5758/
74
/3894/
4.0
/617310/
94
/323/
75
/1155/
94
/45/
cc age 16+

Carol (2015)
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
poster
79
7.6
/119733/
77
/6953/
75
/2417/
3.8
/171220/
89
/236/
95
/539/
73
/38/
cc age 14+

Dark Waters (2019)
A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.
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Criterion Channel
79
7.3
/51305/
70
/802/
70
/656/
3.8
/48912/
87
/222/
79
/1099/
84
/37/
cc age 16+

Far from Heaven (2002)
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.
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Netflix
78
6.7
/72003/
66
/2/
3.6
/614612/
91
/332/
65
/365/
cc age 15+

May December (2022)
Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.
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Kanopy
72
6.8
/63262/
67
/888/
64
/754/
3.7
/56819/
76
/161/
69
/7345/
73
/35/
cc age 16+

I'm Not There (2007)
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
7.1
/18992/
70
/572/
70
/329/
4.0
/85783/
59
/111/
59
/2089/
76
/17/

Safe (1995)
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.
poster
80
69
7.7
/3554/
70
/62/
70
/60/
4.0
/12773/
100
/6/
87
/142/

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987)
The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.
poster
Criterion Channel
67
6.9
/40128/
71
/756/
68
/529/
3.8
/85313/
64
/50/
80
/2093/
65
/25/
cc age 16+

Velvet Goldmine (1998)
Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an investigative journalist is on assignment to uncover the truth behind his former idol.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
63
6.2
/11483/
63
/669/
61
/422/
3.3
/14779/
68
/227/
55
/86/
71
/44/
cc age 9+

Wonderstruck (2017)
The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
poster
Kanopy
67
61
6.3
/5418/
64
/142/
59
/89/
3.5
/14055/
80
/25/
67
/100/
67
/18/

Poison (1991)
A trio of interweaved transgressive tales, telling a bizarre stories of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice, a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague, and the obsessive sexual relationship between two prison inmates.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
81
48
7.9
/1184/
81
/50/
70
/28/
3.9
/3529/
100
/11/
82
/8/

Six by Sondheim (2013)
This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.
poster
Kanopy
66
34
7.2
/1006/
58
/15/
60
/22/
3.8
/2307/

Dottie Gets Spanked (1993)
A six-year-old boy in pre-hippie 1960s United States endures ridicule from his schoolmates and worry from his father over his fixation with a TV star named Dottie.
poster
Criterion Channel
65
13
6.4
/212/
70
/7/
60
/4/
3.4
/1034/

The Suicide (1978)
A young boy, abandoned by his father and supported by a blindly optimistic mother, struggles to fit in at his new school.
poster
?
8.0
/78/
58
/6/
48
/5/

Goo (1991)
In 1991, a long-form music video version of Goo was released on VHS and LaserDisc. A music video for each song from the album was included; the track listing was identical to that of the original album.
poster
?
6.3
/68/
10
/1/
10
/1/

Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud (1985)
The violent love between poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine.
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De Noche
Two men in 1930s Los Angeles pursue their romance in Mexico.
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Image Book (2023)
When asked to create something for the “Où en êtes-vous?” (“Where Are You?”) collection commissioned and posed by the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Haynes’s response was this behind-the-scenes film made during the production of May December, which evokes Ingmar Bergman’s Persona and Jean-Luc Godard’s Two or Three Things I Know About Her in its metacinematic exploration of identity.


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