Browse popular Documentary movies
As one of many residents who lack access to fresh food in Austin, Nolvia Castillo takes the driver’s seat and distributes vegetables to her neighbors. When filmmaker Ai Vuong rides along, they speak the language of immigrants: memories of food.
Johan van der Keuken's first film is a uniquely beautiful portrait of Paris at dawn.
Bruma is a visual documentary chronicle about the fragility and, at the same time, the integrity of life. Bruma observes and contemplates the human condition and the different ways of existing through the metaphorical space of the sea, the fishing cycle and the human beings who survive from this ancestral relationship.
The film documents the life of one of the oldest and largest European markets. Passion on both sides of the counter, loaders’ dreams, hidden fantasies of fish sellers… Security guards and flea market manager share their thoughts about the universe and the meaning of life. The past, the present, the future, and other gypsy predictions, “the most correct weight” and generous portions on trial. There are all the kinds of town folks at the Pryvoz. They are exposed and revealed! Everybody comes here, and everyone finds something to him/herself. Someone who searches for miracles or metamorphoses – in destiny, human soul, and time – also would not go out of there with empty hands.
A poetic, experimental, and auditory allegory of black women and mitochondria, the powerhouse of our cells.
![Singled [Out]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/tRY32rAof76Gt0RuR1x41wrKEHD.jpg)
Singled [Out] tells the story of five educated women in four corners of the world: Jules in Melbourne, Manu in Barcelona, Shu and Yang in Shanghai, and Melek in Istambul -they all travel solo in a world where pairing up is the norm. Together with the voices of some well-known experts in the areas of sociology, law and demography, the film unveils modern love in the era of choice, and is a journey to the heart of being a single woman today.
A montage of areas of varying architecture, edited to simulate nature being overcome by industry.
A documentary short on the treatment of tuberculosis patients in Santa Fe, Argentina.
April 5, 2000, Concordia, Entre Ríos. Two major media outlets broadcast live from the most impoverished city in the country, where a guerrilla group is preparing to "go to war" against the established order.
In 1925 a polar expedition led by the explorer Roald Amundsen managed to reach 88º North, the northernmost latitude ever reached by a man at that time. How to represent the conquest of a place that is an absolutely empty geographical abstraction?
BOYZ follows the Gen-Z friends Maxime, Julian and Vilas through day and night of their student life in Munich. But the end of their adolescence is approaching and soon the three school friends will have to part for the first time.
Argentina 2017. Six intertwined stories. The pension reform advances in the National Congress. TV broadcasts the conflict. Lucrecia discusses with her boss what to report. Meanwhile, in a community kitchen, Rebeca calls for a march to defend her rights.
Comeback is the story of the Iranian National Polo team's return to the international scene. Iran is the birthplace of polo but soon after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the sport all but disappeared in Iran. Comeback documents the history of polo in Iran, its near demise, and eventually Iran's return to the international scene.
In the busy streets of the Ghanaian capital, Accra, four friends experience the challenges of coming of age. Their lives are defined by uncertain plans for the future, complicated father-son relationships, sexual stereotypes, and fear of letting go of childhood innocence. The basketball court offers a fun escape from everyday life.
My grandfather fought alongside Pancho Villa, became Master Mason, was an elected official who represented Oaxaca three times, and president of the national Association of Cattle Hands. In 1942, he formed the Legion of Mexican Fighters, a group of 100,000 cattle hands training to repel a possible Nazi invasion in Mexico. His story of success, however, held a secret that affected my family, and that I discovered while making this documentary.
An experimental documentary in which the director recalls his experiences in the first days after his father’s death. Absence becomes presence in the narrative, which goes back in time, trying to revive the person who is no longer there.
