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Kanopy
86
8.0
/5243/
82
/144/
76
/134/
4.3
/29389/
96
/72/
88
/96/
86
/19/

The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
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Kanopy
83
7.6
/43163/
73
/1025/
74
/869/
4.0
/87047/
96
/67/
85
/762/

Peeping Tom (1960)
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.
poster
83
7.8
/62787/
75
/1035/
74
/922/
4.0
/52738/
92
/50/
91
/1184/
77
/10/
cc age 14+

Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.
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Criterion Channel
83
7.5
/16544/
74
/545/
73
/240/
4.1
/53917/
94
/36/
85
/748/
83
/16/
cc age 13+

Grey Gardens (1976)
Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.
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Criterion Channel
82
7.5
/3591/
75
/188/
67
/86/
4.1
/18285/
100
/105/
69
/20/
89
/21/

Cameraperson (2016)
As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.
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Kanopy
82
7.5
/14554/
74
/416/
71
/225/
3.9
/26408/
94
/145/
79
/374/
91
/36/

Stories We Tell (2012)
Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending of their implication in the events, which are remembered in different ways; so a trail of questions remains to be answered, because memory is always changing and the discovery of truth often depends on who is telling the tale.
poster
82
7.6
/211461/
77
/12003/
75
/3783/
4.1
/576853/
96
/190/
87
/1430/
76
/33/
cc age 16+

What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.
poster
81
8.0
/3154/
74
/31/
71
/30/
3.8
/1094/
96
/25/
87
/38/

The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993)
This documentary recounts the life and work of one of most famous, and yet reviled, German film directors in history, Leni Riefenstahl. The film recounts the rise of her career from a dancer, to a movie actor to the most important film director in Nazi Germany who directed such famous propaganda films as Triumph of the Will and Olympiad. The film also explores her later activities after Nazi Germany's defeat in 1945 and her disgrace for being so associated with it which includes her amazingly active life over the age of 90.
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Kanopy
78
7.5
/14035/
74
/511/
68
/133/
3.5
/4021/
96
/76/
81
/945/
80
/20/
cc age 17+

Bigger Stronger Faster* (2008)
In America, we define ourselves in the superlative: we are the biggest, strongest, fastest country in the world. Is it any wonder that so many of our heroes are on performance enhancing drugs? Director Christopher Bell explores America's win-at-all-cost culture by examining how his two brothers became members of the steroid-subculture in an effort to realize their American dream.
poster
77
6.9
/6367/
68
/112/
63
/73/
3.6
/5483/
89
/45/
71
/161/
84
/27/
cc age 16+

Get on the Bus (1996)
Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of characters including a laid-off aircraft worker, a man whose at-risk son is handcuffed to him, a black Republican, a former gangsta, a Hollywood actor, a cop who is of mixed racial background, and a white bus driver. All make the trek discussing issues surrounding the march, including manhood, religion, politics, and race.
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83
77
8.5
/8939/
79
/232/
79
/117/
4.2
/5671/
88
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9/11 (2002)
An on-the-scene documentary following the events of September 11, 2001 from an insider's view, through the lens of two French filmmakers who simply set out to make a movie about a rookie NYC fireman and ended up filming the tragic event that changed our lives forever.
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MUBI
76
7.2
/5224/
68
/80/
66
/102/
3.7
/6069/
98
/56/
76
/10/
83
/17/

The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (2016)
Summer 1962 and Olli Mäki has a shot at the world championship title in featherweight boxing. From the Finnish countryside to the bright lights of Helsinki, everything has been prepared for his fame and fortune. All Olli has to do is lose weight and concentrate. But there is a problem – he has fallen in love with Raija.
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Criterion Channel
82
75
7.8
/8972/
76
/151/
74
/176/
4.1
/18584/
90
/10/
92
/89/

Camera Buff (1979)
Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.
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Netflix
75
7.4
/15408/
72
/322/
69
/282/
3.6
/15657/
87
/62/
85
/232/
69
/20/

Even the Rain (2011)
As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.
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Fandango at Home Free
74
6.8
/309848/
68
/16151/
68
/4631/
3.7
/1921820/
83
/479/
69
/3550/
77
/64/
cc age 16+

Nope (2022)
Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.
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Criterion Channel
74
7.4
/45758/
73
/1081/
72
/977/
3.8
/58822/
68
/19/
90
/1535/
67
/22/

Man Bites Dog (1992)
The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and arbitrary musings on topics of interest to him, such as music or the conditions of low-income housing, and even goes so far as to introduce the documentary crew to his family. But their reckless indulgences soon get the better of them.
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Amazon Prime Video
72
6.1
/27121/
68
/1049/
60
/468/
3.5
/26168/
91
/133/
61
/621/
79
/32/
cc age 17+

Dear White People (2014)
Four college students attend an Ivy League college where a riot breaks out over an "African-American" themed party thrown by white students. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, the film explores racial identity in 'post racial' America while weaving a story about forging one's unique path in the world.
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MUBI
71
6.4
/6409/
64
/226/
57
/102/
3.4
/5362/
89
/66/
62
/128/
79
/26/

Keep the Lights On (2012)
Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted lawyer Paul meet through a casual encounter, but they find a deeper connection and become a couple. Individually and together, they are risk takers — compulsive, and fueled by drugs and sex. In an almost decade-long relationship defined by highs, lows, and dysfunctional patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his own boundaries and dignity and to be true to himself.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
75
71
7.4
/11794/
71
/250/
68
/149/
3.6
/9523/
88
/32/
79
/558/
cc age 13+

Grey Gardens (2009)
Based on the life stories of the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis raised as Park Avenue débutantes but who withdrew from New York society, taking shelter at their Long Island summer home, "Grey Gardens." As their wealth and contact with the outside world dwindled, so did their grasp on reality.
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Criterion Channel
71
6.8
/23093/
67
/473/
66
/428/
3.6
/57219/
86
/50/
71
/380/
70
/16/

Sisters (1973)
Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is forced to take matters into her own hands. Her first move is to recruit private investigator Joseph Larch, who helps her to uncover a secret about Danielle's past that has them both seeing double.
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Netflix
70
6.6
/19146/
71
/1396/
67
/446/
3.1
/28741/
68
/191/
95
/2126/
61
/43/
cc age 14+

Respect (2021)
The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.
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MUBI
70
6.8
/17223/
66
/267/
61
/162/
3.4
/8837/
74
/96/
75
/609/
64
/27/
cc age 17+

Intermission (2003)
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
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Kanopy
68
6.9
/82645/
69
/3068/
67
/1684/
3.4
/68158/
83
/110/
72
/2169/
61
/25/
cc age 13+

Troll Hunter (2010)
A group of students investigates a series of mysterious bear killings, but learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll hunter.
poster
The Roku Channel
67
6.3
/55499/
62
/1923/
59
/1161/
3.3
/83013/
84
/202/
51
/612/
77
/44/
cc age 16+

While We're Young (2015)
An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.
poster
75
66
7.7
/5138/
71
/90/
70
/84/
3.8
/4022/
75
/8/
85
/40/

Man of Marble (1977)
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
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Kanopy
66
6.4
/4841/
62
/88/
58
/93/
3.4
/5388/
81
/73/
47
/40/
76
/22/

Something in the Air (2012)
During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. While torn between his solidarity to his friends and his personal ambitions he falls in love with Christine.
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Kanopy
66
6.8
/18885/
67
/277/
65
/199/
3.7
/15690/
54
/91/
67
/537/
50
/31/

Storytelling (2001)
College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.
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Kanopy
65
6.5
/545/
66
/14/
57
/14/
3.4
/913/
84
/38/
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/2/
62
/11/

That Summer (2017)
Albert and David Maysles' classic GREY GARDENS immortalized the estate of Edith and Little Edie Beale, relatives of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, who lived in alarmingly poor conditions. But there is more to the story: it was Lee Radziwill and Peter Beard who first brought the Maysles to the Beales, when the two set out to make a film about Radziwill's childhood. The reels of that first contact were shelved for 45 years. This documentary recovers the lost footage. Anchored in Beard's recollections and artistic vision, we are returned to "that summer" in 1972, a seductive dream world and collage of radically unconventional creative personalities—Warhol, Bacon, Jagger, Capote—practicing the art of living amidst oppressive forces of class expectation and prejudice.
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Kanopy
65
6.4
/7122/
69
/219/
61
/301/
3.2
/4130/
70
/33/
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/68/
61
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Haute Cuisine (2012)
The story of Danièle Delpeuch and how she was appointed as the private chef for François Mitterrand.
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Kanopy
64
6.1
/4350/
60
/135/
60
/86/
3.1
/1519/
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/40/
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/63/
65
/19/
cc age 15+

Lucky Them (2013)
More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god, Matt Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming up with an eccentric amateur documentary filmmaker, Ellie hits the road in search of answers.
poster
64
6.3
/169810/
64
/8709/
63
/5000/
3.1
/409563/
68
/228/
52
/2619/
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/34/
cc age 13+

The Visit (2015)
A brother and sister are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a week, where they discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing.
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Criterion Channel
73
62
7.5
/3950/
72
/107/
71
/111/
3.9
/13440/
72
/653/

Chronicle of a Summer (1961)
Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking passersby how they cope with life's misfortunes.
poster
60
5.9
/157534/
56
/3723/
56
/1839/
3.0
/108843/
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/225/
41
/15744/
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/34/
cc age 18+

Brüno (2009)
Flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter Bruno stirs up trouble with unsuspecting guests and large crowds through brutally frank interviews and painfully hilarious public displays of homosexuality.
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Starz
59
6.3
/9741/
60
/233/
55
/116/
3.1
/2287/
54
/104/
63
/657/
57
/31/
cc age 18+

Happy Endings (2005)
Filmmaker Nicky offers to track down the son that Mamie gave up for adoption nearly two decades before. Meanwhile, Mamie's stepbrother (and the father of her child), Charley, along with his boyfriend, Gil, try to find out what became of the sperm Gil donated to a lesbian couple. Finally, singer Jude becomes entangled in a love triangle with androgynous drummer Otis and his conservative father.
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Starz
59
6.0
/8747/
59
/243/
57
/116/
3.2
/6925/
60
/110/
45
/1213/
54
/25/
cc age 13+

Paper Heart (2009)
Paper Heart follows Nick and Charlyne on a cross-country journey to document what exactly "love" is. Interviewing ministers, happily married couples, chemists, romance novelists, divorce lawyers, a group of children and more, the determined young girl attempts to find definition and perhaps even experience the mysterious emotion.
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Kanopy
58
6.1
/22763/
62
/847/
59
/480/
3.0
/31156/
66
/71/
47
/337/
49
/21/
cc age 18+

The Sacrament (2014)
Two journalists set out to document their friend's journey to reunite with his estranged sister. They track her to an undisclosed location where they are welcomed into the remote world of "Eden Parish," a self-sustained rural utopia composed of nearly two hundred members and overseen by a mysterious leader known only as "Father." It quickly becomes evident to the newcomers that this paradise may not be as it seems. Eden Parish harbors a twisted secret. What started as just another documentary shoot soon becomes a fight for survival.
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Hoopla
78
57
7.6
/1382/
77
/37/
66
/35/
3.7
/1444/
97
/29/
91
/32/
71
/10/

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010)
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston's The African Queen and King Vidor's War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.
poster
The Roku Channel
57
5.7
/54033/
59
/1727/
56
/1079/
2.9
/41420/
71
/159/
35
/4989/
63
/31/
cc age 16+

The Last Exorcism (2010)
After years of performing “exorcisms” and taking believers’ money, Reverend Marcus travels to rural Louisiana with a film crew so he can dispel what he believes is the myth of demonic possession. The dynamic reverend is certain that this will be another routine “exorcism” on a disturbed religious fanatic but instead comes upon the blood-soaked farm of the Sweetzer family and a true evil he would have never thought imaginable.
poster
Hoopla
73
57
7.2
/2927/
71
/61/
65
/32/
3.7
/1699/
69
/13/
89
/309/

Hard Core Logo (1996)
Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick holds the whole magilla together through sheer force of will, all the tensions and pitfalls of life on the road come bubbling to the surface.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
63
57
6.6
/6485/
68
/365/
66
/425/
3.3
/6344/
63
/19/
53
/14/

The Odyssey (2016)
The aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher, and conservationist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, covers roughly thirty years of an inarguably rich in achievements life.
poster
Kanopy
75
50
7.2
/864/
66
/20/
72
/18/
3.7
/1807/
93
/15/
78
/5/

The Earth Is Blue as an Orange (2020)
Single mother Anna and her four children live in the front-line war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While the outside world is made up of bombings and chaos, the family is managing to keep their home a safe haven, full of life and full of light. Every member of the family has a passion for cinema, motivating them to shoot a film inspired by their own life during a time of war. The creative process raises the question of what kind of power the magical world of cinema could have during times of disaster. How to picture war through fiction? For Anna and the children, transforming trauma into a work of art is the ultimate way to stay human.
poster
54
50
6.0
/6065/
61
/193/
59
/143/
3.3
/8959/
36
/28/
50
/248/
50
/13/

Marebito (2004)
A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.
poster
48
5.4
/21713/
57
/590/
52
/336/
2.4
/15306/
45
/11/
36
/1088/

Havoc (2005)
A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a violent Latino gang. Suddenly, their role-playing seems a little too real.
poster
49
47
5.9
/10713/
59
/300/
55
/175/
2.8
/2177/
25
/12/
45
/835/

The Darwin Awards (2007)
After botching the capture of a notorious serial killer, idiosyncratic detective Michael Burrows loses his job with the San Francisco Police. He becomes an investigator for an insurance company and joins forces with a cynical field agent to probe suspicious and unusual deaths.
poster
The Roku Channel
65
46
6.9
/3225/
68
/151/
61
/51/
3.1
/1216/
65
/21/

Getting Go: The Go Doc Project (2013)
Too shy to make a proper introduction, a recent college grad devises to shoot a documentary about the NYC nightlife scene in order to meet the go-go guy he’s cyber-obsessed with.
poster
Paramount+ Amazon Channel
45
5.3
/19372/
56
/1862/
61
/732/
2.3
/52266/
32
/47/
38
/126/
37
/13/
cc age 16+

Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin (2021)
Margot is a documentary filmmaker looking to meet her long-lost mother and extended family in a secluded Amish community. She and her film crew soon realize the family that welcomes them into their home might be hiding a sinister secret.
poster
64
45
6.2
/1906/
62
/39/
54
/25/
3.4
/829/
69
/68/
66
/207/
67
/25/

Brothers of the Head (2006)
In the 1970s a music promoter plucks Siamese twins from obscurity and grooms them into a freakish rock'n'roll act. A dark tale of sex, strangeness and rock music.
poster
43
4.7
/8471/
57
/833/
48
/278/
2.2
/2925/
23
/40/

The Veil (2016)
30 years ago, when members of a religious cult known as Heaven's Veil take their own lives. The truth behind what really happened remains buried deep in the memory of the sole survivor, a five-year-old girl. Now as an adult she returns to the compound with a documentary crew. They soon discover something that is far more terrifying than anything they could have imagined.


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