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George Lopez: Why You Crying?
George Lopez: Why You Crying?
2005 · ⭐ 10
Stand-up comic George Lopez uses his childhood experiences growing up Latino in the San Fernando Valley as a platform fo...
Sex, Love, Misery: New New York
Sex, Love, Misery: New New York
2022 · ⭐ 10
Swiping. Dating. Ghosting. Have you wondered what was really going on in your date's head? "Sex Love Misery" reveals can...
Cirque du Soleil: Zed in Tokyo
Cirque du Soleil: Zed in Tokyo
2013 · ⭐ 10
Witness how ZED comes to life in its making-of documentary. Learn how the show became more than its individual pieces. T...
unfinished
unfinished
2021 · ⭐ 10
A family faces a difficult farewell after breakfast one morning....
VVe Being Donna: The Light, the Dark
VVe Being Donna: The Light, the Dark
2020 · ⭐ 10
"VVe Being Donna: The Light The Dark" is a documentary that revolves around the life of Lt. Smt. Dr. Veerbala focusing o...
Paranormal
Paranormal
1997 · ⭐ 10
The filmmakers seek out experts and amateurs in the field of the supernatural and ask them to explain the methods by whi...
K-von: Tanx God!
K-von: Tanx God!
2014 · ⭐ 10
Comedian K-von has a father from the Middle-East and a mother from Middle-America leaving him somewhere in-between. In t...
Miriam: Home Delivery
Miriam: Home Delivery
2014 · ⭐ 10
'Miriam: Home Delivery' is a feature length documentary following one of the longest-practicing midwives in New York Cit...
America
America
2018 · ⭐ 10
An Iranian journalist couple wants to move to America to escape the difficulties of their country. The woman receives he...
The Craft
The Craft
1996 · ⭐ 6.8
A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross t...
Christmas Staycation
Christmas Staycation
2020 · ⭐ 9.5
When a family can't be together on Christmas they bring their dysfunctional family Christmas online....
The Trial of the Chicago 7
The Trial of the Chicago 7
2020 · ⭐ 7.7
What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the mos...
Matilda
Matilda
1996 · ⭐ 7.145
An extraordinarily intelligent young girl from a cruel and uncaring family discovers she possesses telekinetic powers an...
Ulterior States
Ulterior States
2015 · ⭐ 9.5
The film took three years and 125 videos to complete. Through this journey I got immersed in the decentralised crypto-cu...
Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie
Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie
2018 · ⭐ 7.8
A decade after a tragic mistake family man Chas and occult detective John Constantine set out to cure Chas’s daughter Tr...
Bombshell
Bombshell
2019 · ⭐ 6.8
Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; and the explosive sto...
The Hill
The Hill
1965 · ⭐ 7.6
North Africa World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incli...
A Riddle of Steel: The Definitive History of Conan the Barbarian
A Riddle of Steel: The Definitive History of Conan the Barbarian
2019 · ⭐ 8.5
The story of Conan the Cimmerian from Robert E. Howard's pulp fiction anti-hero to pop culture icon....
Original Sins
Original Sins
1996 · ⭐ 8.5
Three devout young women fall into depravity as they cultivate what they believe is a very up-close-and-personal relatio...
The Opera House
The Opera House
2017 · ⭐ 8.2
In this documentary award-winning filmmaker Susan Froemke explores the creation of the Metropolitan Opera’s storied home...
Santa Sangre
Santa Sangre
1989 · ⭐ 7.063
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child when he and ...
Pump Up the Volume
Pump Up the Volume
1990 · ⭐ 7.1
Mark Hunter a lonely high school student uses his shortwave radio to moonlight as the popular pirate DJ "Hard Harry." Wh...
Helvetica
Helvetica
2007 · ⭐ 7.3
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at th...
10 Rillington Place
10 Rillington Place
1971 · ⭐ 7.3
The story of British serial killer John Christie who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house a...
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
2012 · ⭐ 7.273
A journey into the labyrinthine heart of ideology which shapes and justifies both collective and personal beliefs and pr...
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
1964 · ⭐ 7.3
Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium holding seances in the sitting room of her hom...
The Invitation
The Invitation
2015 · ⭐ 6.5
Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new par...
Modern Life Is Rubbish
Modern Life Is Rubbish
2018 · ⭐ 7.3
Brought together by their shared love of music ten years on Liam and Natalie are at breaking point. In their case opposi...
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
2019 · ⭐ 7.8
From their roots as a brutal confrontational industrial band through breakups and chaos to their odds-defying current st...
Covenant
Covenant
2018 · ⭐ 8
After receiving word of his estranged mother's untimely passing a reluctant former army lieutenant must travel to a secl...
Rodents of Unusual Size
Rodents of Unusual Size
2017 · ⭐ 7.8
Giant swamp rats have invaded coastal Louisiana and defiant people on the edge of the world are defending their communit...
Papa Rainbow
Papa Rainbow
2016 · ⭐ 8
In China most families have difficulties facing their lesbian gay bisexual and/or transgender (LGBT) children. They have...
Help!
Help!
1965 · ⭐ 6.863
An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (tha...
The Old Dark House
The Old Dark House
1932 · ⭐ 6.9
Seeking shelter from a relentless rainstorm and landslides in a remote region of Wales five travelers are admitted to a ...
UHF
UHF
1989 · ⭐ 6.8
The eccentric new manager of a UHF television channel tries to save the station from financial ruin with an odd array of...
Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa
1986 · ⭐ 6.9
George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as ...
Brighton Rock
Brighton Rock
1948 · ⭐ 7
Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and in particular their leader – a vicious young hoodlum know...
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
2003 · ⭐ 8
This documentary follows Phillip Noyce as he tries to find three aboriginal girls able to act in his film Rabbit Proof F...
Beyond Conviction
Beyond Conviction
2006 · ⭐ 8
Beyond Conviction tells the moving story of three crime victims on a journey towards healing and resolution. The film fo...
Vers Nancy
Vers Nancy
2002 · ⭐ 8
A train conversation between an immigrant French woman and novelist Jean-Luc Nancy centering on the idea of intrusion wi...
The Museum
The Museum
2017 · ⭐ 8
The Museum is a film that observes examines and ponders Israel's most important cultural institution the Israel Museum. ...
The Offence
The Offence
1973 · ⭐ 6.9
A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester....
Holding On To Jah
Holding On To Jah
2011 · ⭐ 8
About the history and culture of roots Reggae music and the Rastafarian movement in Jamaica as told by world class Regga...
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
2015 · ⭐ 7.1
The story of the Black Panthers is often told in a scatter of repackaged parts often depicting tragic mythic accounts of...
Nil by Mouth
Nil by Mouth
1997 · ⭐ 6.9
The family of Raymond his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is ...
No Sympathy for the Devil
No Sympathy for the Devil
1997 · ⭐ 7.6
A modern version of Orpheus and Eurydice. A romance in extremes set at a dystopian future by the acclaimed Greek directo...
May
May
2003 · ⭐ 6.5
A socially awkward veterinary assistant with a lazy eye and obsession with perfection descends into depravity after deve...
No Retreat, No Surrender
No Retreat, No Surrender
1986 · ⭐ 6.3
Young Jason Stillwell moves with his parents to Seattle where local bullies harass them without mercy. Jason's father To...
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
2021 · ⭐ 7
An intimate behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. This unflinching look...
Get a Life!
Get a Life!
2012 · ⭐ 7.4
An EPIX Original documentary directed by William Shatner based on his hugely popular book in which he examines the cultu...
Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
2015 · ⭐ 6.8
In 1982 three 11 year-olds in Mississippi set out to remake their favorite film: Raiders of the Lost Ark. It took seven ...
F for Franco
F for Franco
2016 · ⭐ 7.4
Filmmaker and art theorist Dr. Francisco J. Ricardo delves into the creative mind of the multi-faceted James Franco in t...
Until the Light Takes Us
Until the Light Takes Us
2008 · ⭐ 6.7
Chronicles the history ideology and aesthetic of Norwegian black metal a musical subculture infamous as much for a serie...
New York Stories
New York Stories
1989 · ⭐ 6.3
Three stories happening in New York. The first by Scorsese is about a painter who creates his works helped by high volum...
Eames: The Architect and the Painter
Eames: The Architect and the Painter
2011 · ⭐ 6.9
The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames were America's most influential and important industrial designers. A...
The Year of the Sex Olympics
The Year of the Sex Olympics
1968 · ⭐ 7.5
Influenced by concerns about overpopulation the counterculture of the 1960s and the societal effects of television the p...
The American Astronaut
The American Astronaut
2001 · ⭐ 6.8
Samual Curtis's first mission in this bizarre science fiction musical comedy requires him to take a cat to a saloon on a...
Partisans of Vilna
Partisans of Vilna
1986 · ⭐ 7.5
This extraordinary film tells the story of the men and women who formed the Jewish partisan movement in Vilna Lithuania ...
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
2016 · ⭐ 6.9
Rosie Ming a young Canadian poet is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz Iran but she’d rather be in Paris....
Race with the Devil
Race with the Devil
1975 · ⭐ 6.3
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a S...
Rize
Rize
2005 · ⭐ 6.6
A documentary film that highlights two street derived dance styles Clowning and Krumping that came out of the low income...
The Onion Movie
The Onion Movie
2008 · ⭐ 6.2
Venerable newscaster Norm Archer reports the latest news in politics health culture and entertainment - such as an autom...
The Image Revolution
The Image Revolution
2013 · ⭐ 6.7
Twenty years ago seven superstar artists left Marvel Comics to create their own company Image Comics a company that cont...
Mr. SOUL!
Mr. SOUL!
2018 · ⭐ 7
On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era ushe...
A Queer City
A Queer City
2020 · ⭐ 7
A documentary following three young nascent drag artists as they navigate a rising queer scene in Norwich City - a place...
Hardware
Hardware
1990 · ⭐ 5.961
Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence able to repair and recharge itself...
The Corsican Brothers
The Corsican Brothers
1941 · ⭐ 6.8
Cultured Mario and outlaw Lucien twins separated at birth join forces to avenge their parents' death at the hands of evi...
Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed
Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed
2008 · ⭐ 7
An American story. Traces the career of Joe Louis (1914-1981) within the context of American racial consciousness: his d...
Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
2015 · ⭐ 7
A documentary of uncompromising outlaw cult underground filmmaker Jim Van Bebber covering his life from 2010-2015 while ...
Rolling Like Thunder
Rolling Like Thunder
2021 · ⭐ 7
This documentary plunges into the secret underground world and history of freight train and graffiti culture uncovering ...
Between Life and Death
Between Life and Death
2010 · ⭐ 7
Provocative documentary following the doctors who can now interrupt and even reverse the process of death. Filmed over s...
Eyes of an Angel
Eyes of an Angel
1991 · ⭐ 6.4
John Travolta is a downtrodden single father raising his daughter under difficult circumstances in Chicago. The young gi...
Tell Spring Not to Come This Year
Tell Spring Not to Come This Year
2015 · ⭐ 6.7
When NATO troops withdrew from Afghanistan the Afghan National Army (ANA) took over control of Helmand Province an extre...
My Dream Is Yours
My Dream Is Yours
1949 · ⭐ 6.5
Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personalit...
Jerusalem
Jerusalem
2013 · ⭐ 6.4
JERUSALEM takes audiences on an inspiring and eye-opening tour of one of the worlds oldest and most enigmatic cities. De...
Beckman
Beckman
2020 · ⭐ 6.1
A contract killer becomes the reverend of a LA church until a cult leader and his minions kidnap his daughter. Blinded b...
Examined Life
Examined Life
2008 · ⭐ 6.354
Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms and puts it back on the streets. Offering privile...
You've Got A Friend: The Carole King Story
You've Got A Friend: The Carole King Story
2014 · ⭐ 7
Documentary telling in her own words the story of Carole King's upbringing in Brooklyn and the subsequent success that s...
Fargo
Fargo
1952 · ⭐ 7
The brother (House Peters Jr.) of rancher Bill Martin (Bill Elliott) is killed in a stampede started by cattleman. Bill ...
Design Canada
Design Canada
2018 · ⭐ 7
Through the lens of graphic design “Design Canada” follows the transformation of a nation from a colonial outpost to a v...
Love in Tokyo
Love in Tokyo
2015 · ⭐ 7
Tom is an American who moves to Tokyo on what he thinks is to be a temporary situation. He struggles to fit into the Jap...
Return to Life
Return to Life
1960 · ⭐ 7
A refugee family comes to terms with living in England and adjusting to a new language and culture....
A Year in Champagne
A Year in Champagne
2014 · ⭐ 6.5
The exploding cork. Endless tiny bubbles floating up and up in the glass. An indulgence. A celebration. A seduction. A t...
The Russell Girl
The Russell Girl
2008 · ⭐ 6.3
Sarah Russell a 23-year-old aspiring medical school student visits her loving family to share some important news but in...
Beat Girl
Beat Girl
1960 · ⭐ 6.225
When her architect father brings home a much younger new wife rebellious and resentful teen Jenny goes to extreme length...
The Witch Files
The Witch Files
2018 · ⭐ 6.1
A coven of young women with incredible powers and difficult pasts discovers that they are able to make their every wish ...
The Incubus
The Incubus
1982 · ⭐ 5.885
In the small New England town of Galen a young teenage boy claims he has dreams of young women being brutally raped and ...
The Last Man
The Last Man
2018 · ⭐ 5.7
Tov Matheson is a war veteran with PTSD who perceives that the apocalypse is coming. After starting a relationship with ...
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
2013 · ⭐ 6.3
In 1985 former oil rig worker Richard Linklater began a film screening society in Austin Texas that aimed to show classi...
Roadie
Roadie
2012 · ⭐ 6.1
After 20 years on the road with Blue Oyster Cult Jimmy Testagros returns to his hometown to life with his ailing mother....
Augusta, Gone
Augusta, Gone
2006 · ⭐ 6.2
Martha is a businesswoman and divorced mother of two children - Augusta and Jack. However when docile Augusta becomes a ...
Recipe for Love
Recipe for Love
2014 · ⭐ 5.8
Lauren Hennessey has always loved to cook and is a proud perfectionist at her job at "Food & Entertainment Magazine's" t...
Marking Out
Marking Out
2016 · ⭐ 6.5
Marking Out is a comedic documentary that follows a group of grown men as they try to figure out why they can't seem to ...
Leonie
Leonie
2010 · ⭐ 6.1
In the lush tradition of the glorious films of Merchant and Ivory comes the true life story of Leonie Gilmour (Emily Mor...
Mysterious Two
Mysterious Two
1982 · ⭐ 6.3
Two Aliens visit the Earth in an effort to enlist converts to travel the universe with them....
Dangerous Money
Dangerous Money
1946 · ⭐ 5.9
A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger Charlie Chan that there have...
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
1975 · ⭐ 5.7
When college professor Peter Proud begins experiencing flashbacks of an earlier life he's mysteriously drawn to a place ...
PACmen
PACmen
2017 · ⭐ 6.3
This observational documentary follows the men behind the Super-PACs that persuaded Dr Ben Carson to run for President. ...
Expresso Bongo
Expresso Bongo
1959 · ⭐ 6
A seedy London promoter turns a naive working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation....
The Young Americans
The Young Americans
1993 · ⭐ 5.657
Experienced New York Police Detective John Harris is sent to London to help a local task force investigate a series of g...
The Body Tree
The Body Tree
2017 · ⭐ 5.8
A group of Americans travel to Siberia where a friend died stabbed. Soon they will discover their hosts are involved in ...
Portal to Hell!!!
Portal to Hell!!!
2015 · ⭐ 6
A janitor is mainly used for dirty jobs by the occupants of an apartment building. When the lights fail and he goes down...
VHS Massacre: Cult Films and the Decline of Physical Media
VHS Massacre: Cult Films and the Decline of Physical Media
2016 · ⭐ 5.6
This lively documentary explores the rise and fall of physical media from the origin of film all the way through the vid...
Liebestraum
Liebestraum
1991 · ⭐ 5.8
A man returns to his hometown and a series of dark secrets are revealed....
Aidez l'Espagne
Aidez l'Espagne
1969 · ⭐ 6
The Colegio de Arquitectos de Catalunya commissioned Pere Portabella to make this film for the Joan Miró retrspective e...
Leave It on the Floor
Leave It on the Floor
2011 · ⭐ 5.8
Our African-American hero Brad is bullied by his dysfunctional mom; he flees his home and by chance tumbles down the ra...
Nightmare on the 13th Floor
Nightmare on the 13th Floor
1990 · ⭐ 5.6
In this made-for-cable television horror thriller a travel writer visits a historic hotel to write a story about it and ...
Simon, King of the Witches
Simon, King of the Witches
1971 · ⭐ 5.6
Simon is a modern day warlock. Though he lives in a storm drain and sometimes talks to trees he's deadly serious about h...
Magic Max
Magic Max
2021 · ⭐ 5.8
After a tragic loss of both parents 11-year-old Tim Hart is forced to live with his immensely immature Uncle Max a secon...
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
2012 · ⭐ 5.1
The story of Leon an antiques collector who inherits a house from his estranged mother only to discover that she had bee...
Le Divorce
Le Divorce
2003 · ⭐ 5
While visiting her sister in Paris a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer....
Mindwarp
Mindwarp
1992 · ⭐ 5.2
Revolting mutants hunt human outcasts and underground fighters (Bruce Campbell Marta Alicia) in a future world of mind c...
Red Rover
Red Rover
2015 · ⭐ 5.7
Two teenagers from a remote religious community travel to town in search of shelter after being told by their Evangelica...
American Teacher
American Teacher
2011 · ⭐ 5.6
As the debate over the state of America's public school system rages on one thing everyone agrees on is the need for gre...
Killing the Colorado
Killing the Colorado
2016 · ⭐ 6
The drought in the American West is predicted to be the worst in 1000 years. Join five Academy Award-winning filmmakers ...
The New Romantics: A Fine Romance
The New Romantics: A Fine Romance
2001 · ⭐ 6
Culture Club Spandau Ballet Visage Marilyn Adam and the Ants Duran Duran ABC... At the dawn of the 80s a whole host of s...
Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts
Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts
2021 · ⭐ 6
This illuminating documentary explores the life of a unique American artist a man with a remarkable and unlikely biograp...
Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath
Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath
2014 · ⭐ 6
Stonehenge is an icon of prehistoric British culture an enigma that has seduced archaeologists and tourists for centurie...
The Song You Gave Me
The Song You Gave Me
1933 · ⭐ 6
Set in Vienna this lively musical comedy stars Bebe Daniels as an actress who falls in love with her secretary but has d...
I Believe In Easter
I Believe In Easter
2015 · ⭐ 6
Learn how the church adapted and transformed pagan tradition into the celebration of the Resurrection. See how culture e...