Release Date: 2020-12-03

Overview: This documentary goes beneath the surface of our favorite films, seeking to better understand the way we view love, relationships, and romance. From clumsy meet cutes to rain-soaked declarations of love, these films reflect our experiences but are often just as problematic as they are comforting. Helped by a chorus of critics, actors, and filmmakers, and original songs by her band Summer Camp, director Elizabeth Sankey embarks on a journey of investigation and self-discovery.

Rating: 6 (6 votes)

Release Date: 1992-09-09

Overview: This documentary by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky details the murder trial of Delbert Ward. Delbert was a member of a family of four elderly brothers, working as semi-literate farmers and living together in isolation from the rest of society until William's death.

Rating: 7 (54 votes)

Release Date: 2003-11-09

Overview: Louis stays with the residents of a soon to open brothel in Nevada for a few weeks.

Rating: 7.1 (31 votes)

Release Date: 1978-10-05

Overview: When a young female mouse makes a deal with the devil to become a rock star and learns the price, her boyfriend has to help her avoid damnation.

Rating: 6.833 (12 votes)

Release Date: 2018-08-02

Overview: "Cheques Matta" are works of small format, similar to an American check that the painter Roberto Matta sent by mail to his friends with financial problems during the first years of the Military Dictatorship in Chile. Establishing new paradigms, making us question the true function of art as an instrument of social transformation.

Rating: 6.5 (1 votes)

Release Date: 1999-12-29

Overview: A portrait of the life and career of the infamous American execution device designer Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Mr. Leuchter was an engineer who became an expert on execution devices and was later hired by holocaust revisionist historian Ernst Zundel to "prove" that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. Leuchter published a controversial report confirming Zundel's position, which ultimately ruined his own career. Most of the footage is of Leuchter, working in and around execution facilities or chipping away at the walls of Auschwitz, but Morris also interviews various historians, associates, and neighbors.

Rating: 6.9 (63 votes)

Release Date: 2010-06-04

Overview: From the first time he performed Swimming to Cambodia - the one-man account of his experience of making the 1984 film The Killing Fields - Spalding Gray made the art of the monologue his own. Drawing unstintingly on the most intimate aspects of his own life, his shows were vibrant, hilarious and moving. His death came tragically early, in 2004; this compilation of interview and performance footage nails his idiosyncratic and irreplaceable brilliance.

Rating: 6.5 (23 votes)

Release Date: 1963-05-25

Overview: Power saws and a heartbeat score this experimental light-and-color shot by Ed Emshwiller.

Rating: 6.2 (24 votes)

Release Date: 1993-02-26

Overview: An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that his is the product of artificial insemination.

Rating: 5.281 (16 votes)

Release Date: 2006-10-11

Overview: A engaging and exotic man–nature documentary that is sure to capture audiences in many countries. Beautifully filmed by Peter Gerdehag and sensitively edited by Tell Johansson. He lives for horses, he lives with horses, he works with horses and he just about dies when he is forced to leave his horses because of a storm that turns his life upside down.

Rating: 5.2 (7 votes)

Release Date: 1963-01-30

Overview: A mondo doc detailing the wild and weird world of women... around the world.

Rating: 5.3 (12 votes)

Release Date: 1989-11-01

Overview: A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the missions and astronaut interviews, the documentary offers the viewpoint of the individuals who braved the remarkable journey to the moon and back.

Rating: 7.8 (145 votes)

Release Date: 2012-07-06

Overview: With the epic dimensions of a Shakespearean tragedy, The Queen of Versailles follows billionaires Jackie and David’s rags-to-riches story to uncover the innate virtues and flaws of their American dream. We open on the triumphant construction of the biggest house in America, a sprawling, 90,000-square-foot mansion inspired by Versailles. Since a booming time-share business built on the real-estate bubble is financing it, the economic crisis brings progress to a halt and seals the fate of its owners. We witness the impact of this turn of fortune over the next two years in a riveting film fraught with delusion, denial, and self-effacing humor.

Rating: 6.898 (205 votes)

Release Date: 1988-10-01

Overview: Going on a business trip, the hero of the film suddenly finds himself in a fantastic city. It is very similar to our world, only the hidden absurdity of everyday life here has become apparent.

Rating: 6.7 (56 votes)

Release Date: 1988-11-07

Overview: An American horror writer, haunted by childhood nightmares, moves to an old mansion in Italy with her husband and young son only to discover the nightmares were real.

Rating: 5.5 (37 votes)

Release Date: 2007-09-28

Overview: Angie is a working class woman. After being fired, she decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend, Rose. Taking advantage of the desperation of immigrants, Angie builds a successful business extremely quickly.

Rating: 6.578 (116 votes)

Release Date: 2001-11-01

Overview: Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.

Rating: 7.5 (67 votes)

Release Date: 2000-08-30

Overview: A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.

Rating: 7.268 (114 votes)

Release Date: 2010-09-01

Overview: A documentary on a former Miss Wyoming who is charged with abducting and imprisoning a young Mormon Missionary.

Rating: 6.492 (125 votes)

Release Date: 1973-09-01

Overview: 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.

Rating: 7.4 (340 votes)