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poster
Criterion Channel
81
7.7
/19506/
76
/560/
73
/351/
4.2
/56433/
88
/52/
88
/511/
87
/18/

F for Fake (1973)
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.
poster
Kanopy
76
6.9
/179/
87
/4/
66
/11/
3.7
/511/
100
/18/
75
/9/

Heimat Is a Space in Time (2019)
Director Thomas Heise picks up the biographical pieces left by his family, and composes an epic picture of four generations of his family, of a country, of a century.
poster
Kanopy
75
7.3
/817/
74
/51/
63
/19/
3.7
/1736/
93
/57/
76
/19/
72
/15/

Obit (2017)
How do you put a life into 500 words? Ask the staff obituary writers at the New York Times. OBIT is a first-ever glimpse into the daily rituals, joys and existential angst of the Times obit writers, as they chronicle life after death on the front lines of history.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
6.5
/9231/
62
/194/
62
/209/
3.5
/25791/
94
/34/
72
/179/

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills.
poster
Kanopy
70
6.9
/1737/
66
/91/
69
/29/
3.5
/13324/
84
/74/
58
/4/
62
/18/

Lynch/Oz (2023)
Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch’s work.
poster
72
47
6.9
/960/
65
/23/
59
/26/
3.6
/3919/
96
/25/

The Green Fog (2018)
A tribute to a fascinating film shot by Alfred Hitchcock in 1958, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, and to the city of San Francisco, California, where the magic was created; but also a challenge: how to pay homage to a masterpiece without using its footage; how to do it simply by gathering images from various sources, all of them haunted by the curse of a mysterious green fog that seems to cause irrepressible vertigo…
poster
72
43
7.4
/637/
75
/21/
78
/16/
3.6
/2275/
83
/18/
50

In the Intense Now (2017)
A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China's Cultural Revolution, from the student uprisings in Paris to the end of the Prague Spring.
poster
Hoopla
61
41
6.5
/981/
55
/34/
60
/38/
3.6
/3242/
56

Vampir Cuadecuc (1972)
An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Franco in 1970; a ghostly narration between fiction and reality.
poster
Criterion Channel
67
39
7.1
/899/
62
/27/
62
/37/
3.8
/4617/

The So-Called Caryatids (1984)
Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of buildings, holding up windows, roofs etc.
poster
56
33
5.9
/891/
57
/26/
59
/25/
3.3
/2036/
43
/7/
55
/21/

Cremaster 4 (1995)
CREMASTER 4 (1994) adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate episode describes the system's onward rush toward descension despite its resistance to division. The logo for this chapter is the Manx triskelion - three identical armored legs revolving around a central axis. Set on the Isle of Man, the film absorbs the island's folklore ...
poster
MUBI
75
29
7.0
/195/
71
/7/
68
/4/
3.5
/819/
100
/5/

The Future Tense (2022)
Staged as a series of voiceover sessions, written with gloriously off-balanced precision and dipped in the color green, THE FUTURE TENSE unfolds as a poignant tale of tales, exploring the filmmakers’ own experiences in aging, parenting, mental illness, along with the brutal history that lies submerged beneath Ireland’s heavy, moist earth.
poster
61
27
5.5
/77/
50
/3/
75
/6/
3.5
/656/
30
/186/
89
/2497/

Ozu: Passageways (2012)
People constantly appear walking through passageways in the films of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu (1903-63). His art resides in the in-between spaces of modern life, in the transitory: alleys are no longer dark and threatening traps where suspense is born, but simple places of passage.
poster
72
27
7.0
/438/
70
/19/
74
/15/
3.8
/1570/

Visit, or Memories and Confessions (2015)
A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.
poster
67
26
7.0
/278/
54
/7/
65
/7/
3.5
/785/
78
/9/

The March on Rome (2022)
The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire world in the dark years to come.
poster
76
26
7.7
/195/
76
/10/
71
/8/
4.1
/2812/

Linklater: On Cinema and Time (2013)
If cinema is the art of time, Linklater is one of its most thoughtful and engaged directors. Unlike other filmmakers identified as auteurs, Linklater’s distinction is not found on the surface of his films, in a visual style or signature shot, but rather in their DNA, as ongoing conversations with cinema, which is to say, with time itself. A visual essay produced by Sight and Sound.
poster
65
21
6.4
/55/
65
/10/
65
/11/
3.4
/1806/

The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography (1998)
Every image in The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography comes from gay erotic videos produced in Eastern Europe since the introduction of capitalism. The video provides a glimpse of young men responding to the pressures of an unfamiliar world, one in which money, power and sex are now connected.
poster
Criterion Channel
60
20
6.4
/375/
52
/17/
57
/16/
3.3
/1213/

Ars (1960)
With ghostly eyes looking through the winter landscapes of the plains and villages of Ain, where the sanctified priest the Curé of Ars once lived, Jacques Demy tried to understand this fighter for communal spirituality and his daily torments of mysticism.
poster
Kanopy
74
18
7.3
/318/
80
/10/
71
/8/
3.7
/1140/

Arcadia (2017)
A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey of immense beauty and brutality. A kaleidoscopic essay on how magic and madness have linked human beings to nature since the beginning of time.
poster
80
17
7.5
/150/
70
/3/
100
/1/
3.9
/1438/

Letters from Wolf Street (2025)
A street in downtown Warsaw transforms into a kaleidoscopic portrait of Polish society. Behind the viewfinder is an Indian immigrant, who seeks to overcome the boundaries between himself and an anxiety-ridden country.
poster
76
17
7.5
/128/
74
/9/
78
/4/
4.0
/1222/

On Memory (2021)
Musing on the nature of memory, Don Hertzfeldt recounts stories about a kiss from The King, a floating child in a backyard and a giant foot.
poster
64
17
6.5
/499/
61
/8/
58
/10/
3.6
/930/

Hands Up! (1985)
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
poster
61
17
6.2
/412/
58
/28/
60
/17/
3.3
/610/

Fear Itself (2015)
A girl haunted by traumatic events takes us on a mesmerising journey through 100 years of horror cinema to explore how filmmakers scare us – and why we let them.
poster
71
16
6.0
/84/
77
/9/
74
/6/
3.8
/1049/

What Is Neorealism? (2013)
Filmmaker Kogonada unpicks what defines the Golden Age of Italian cinema with a side-by-side comparison of two edits of the same film, one according to Italian director Vittorio De Sica, and the other according to Hollywood producer David O. Selznick.
poster
56
15
5.8
/1008/
51
/18/
49
/19/
3.4
/512/
58
/3/

Visions of Europe (2004)
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
poster
62
13
5.7
/56/
56
/8/
68
/2/
3.4
/1197/

Wes Anderson: From Above (2017)
A visual essay that highlights top-down shots from Wes Anderson's filmography.
poster
70
12
6.7
/113/
71
/7/
70
/2/
3.6
/950/

Stanley Kubrick: One-Point Perspective (2012)
Kogonada's visual essay about the formalistice choices of master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick
poster
55
12
6.4
/74/
40
/3/
45
/6/
3.6
/879/

Blue Diary (1998)
Through voiceover and static San Francisco landscapes this experimental narrative short tells the melancholy story of a butch dyke pining over a one night stand with a straight girl.
poster
78
12
7.6
/47/
72
/4/
90
/1/
3.8
/993/

Watching the Pain of Others (2019)
In this deeply personal video diary, a young researcher tries to make sense of her fascination for the film "The Pain of Others" by Penny Lane. A deep dive into the discomforting world of YouTube and online conspiracies, that challenges traditional notions of what documentary cinema is, or should be.
poster
77
12
7.8
/40/
70
/3/
82
/4/
4.0
/807/

Ôrí (1989)
A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Africa.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
58
10
6.7
/349/
47
/8/
54
/11/
3.3
/323/

To Stay Alive: A Method (2016)
Iggy Pop reads and recites Michel Houellebecq’s manifesto. The documentary features real people from Houellebecq’s life with the text based on their life stories.
poster
72
9
7.5
/70/
75
/5/
65
/2/
3.8
/705/

The Road to Magnasanti (2017)
In 2010, an obsessed gamer designed the perfect game of Sim City. Achieved through a repeating pattern of clustered high rises, “Magnasanti” exposes the hellish consequences of top-down civic design. In his new documentary, John Wilson explores how New York City is creeping closer and closer to realizing this fictional metropolis.
poster
Kanopy
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50
/1/

Metropia (2025)
N/A
poster
?
100
/1/

And there was evening and there was morning. The first day (2025)
With the lack of personal video archive, Youhanna (the filmmaker) creates false memories using lost home videotapes shot between the 1990s and 2000s in Europe, Africa, and Asia, with the help of an Artificial intelligence programme, until a real, personal video archive surfaces, transporting him into the past to relive one more memory with his late mother.
poster
?
7.8
/8/
80
/1/

Terra incognita (2024)
N/A
poster
?
100
/1/

Director's First Minute After Death (2024)
The reflection of the first visions experienced by a young experimental film director after death. A film centered on understanding death itself as quickly as possible.
poster
?
100
/1/

Walking (2024)
Tommy sets out to document walking. He meets a colorful cast of characters, attaches microphones to his feet, and contends with what it means to capture movement on film.
poster
?
100
/1/

A Weak & Panicked Animal (2024)
Enclosed by a civilised landscape, society reduces the problem of human survival to a minimum. The sidewalk, the fence, the clearing, demarcate a treaty between man and nature whereby neither one of us shall pass these thresholds lest we become subject to the law of the other.
poster
?
50
/1/

We Used to Be Friends. (2024)
For a long time they were an integral part of our society, today they live neglected in our cities and are deemed a problem. The pigeon is a relic of the past that still affects us today.
poster
?
100
/1/

Cambalhota (2023)
A girl mixes fiction with reality while writing a letter to her grandmother.
poster
?
8.7
/6/
100
/1/

The Scars (2019)
The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line is comparable to a crease in the pages of the family album, but also to a crack in the walls of the paternal house. It resembles the open wound created when drilling into a mountain, but also a scar in the collective imaginary of a society, where the idea of salvation finds its tragic destiny in the political struggle. What is at the end of that line? Will old war songs be enough to circumvent that destiny?
poster
?
20
/1/

Zaniklý svět Karla Pecky (2000)
N/A
poster
?
7.5
/16/
20
/1/

Bitva o život (2000)
A documentary based on the mutual experiences of a trio of directors, which portrays life in the border village of Bystré during the last year of the millennium. The film concentrates on the exuberant social life of the community, including many bizarre recent customs, as well as on several very intimate moments in the lives of the inhabitants.
poster
72
?
7.2
/12/
70
/1/
3.7
/283/

The Diary of a Sky (2024)
The film unfolds an atmospheric symphony of violence over Beirut, revealing the haunting fusion of incessant Israeli military flights and the hum of generators during blackouts. This 45-minute video essay plunges viewers into a chilling chronicle of daily life transformed by the weaponization of the air, where the terror of repeated incursions becomes a disconcertingly banal backdrop.
poster
?
52
/2/

The Water Map (2024)
The Water Map is an essayistic journey through the ethnography and landscapes of the Region of Murcia. These places are in the process of disappearing due to the increasing and abundant agricultural exploitation. Water has marked the territory and the culture of the area, and with its disappearance, the memories of four characters fade away.
poster
?
100
/1/

gap (2023)
Stream of consciousness awakened by the shots of an inauspicious summer.
poster
?
10
/1/
70
/4/

Transgender Nuclear Suicide Sojourner (2023)
Lies can kill. Transgender Nuclear Suicide Sojourner is an exploration of propaganda, lies, and the overwhelming urge to end it all.
poster
?
50
/1/

Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy (2023)
An extension of the Benign Violation theory of comedy developed by Tom Veatch and A. Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren. Source: The Cure (1917) Dir. Charles Chaplin and Edward Brewer
poster
?
10
/1/

The Universe of the Manas (1995)
It has been a lifelong dream of Kyrgyz director Melis Ubukeyev to create an elaborate film version of the Kyrgyz national epic 'Manas'. He spent years working with the National Academy of Sciences of Kyrgyzstan to gather material for this film project, which would ultimately remain a dream. However, the director's efforts were not in vain: Not only did he make films in 1962 and 1988 about Manasçı – the revered oral storytellers who have preserved the epic for generations through melodic recitation –, but in 1995, to mark the 1,000th anniversary of 'Manas', he also created a beguiling essay film that not only recounts the epic’s sweeping narrative through a mix of breathtaking imagery and opulent costumes, but also weaves it into a semi-documentary exploration of Kyrgyz history and identity. Once almost impossible to find, the film has recently been restored by the film studio Kyrgyzfilm and uploaded to YouTube in 4K.


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