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Midsommar(2019)

NR
| 2h 28min | Horror, Drama, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 3,167 votes)

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

Directed by Ari Aster - With Jack Reynor, Florence Pugh, Will Poulter, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Archie Madekwe, ...
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The Man from Earth(2007)

NR
| 1h 27min | Science Fiction, Drama
3.8/5 (with 1,006 votes)

An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 years.

Directed by Richard Schenkman - With John Billingsley, Tony Todd, David Lee Smith, William Katt, Richard Riehle, Alexis Thorpe, ...
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Iceman(1984)

PG
| 1h 40min | Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 52 votes)

A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Dr. Stanley Shephard wants to befriend the Iceman and learn about the man's past while Dr. Diane Brady and her surgical team want to discover the secret that will allow man to live in a frozen state.

Directed by Fred Schepisi - With Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, John Lone, Josef Sommer, David Strathairn
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Fierce People(2005)

R
| 1h 52min | Drama, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 50 votes)

A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Yanomani people, moves in with a wealthy ex-client in New Jersey.

Directed by Griffin Dunne - With Diane Lane, Anton Yelchin, Donald Sutherland, Chris Evans, Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth Perkins, ...
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Museo(2018)

2h 7min | Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 56 votes)

Mexico, 1985. Juan and Wilson, two perennial Veterinary students, perpetrate an audacious heist in the National Museum of Anthropology, running away with a loot of more than hundred invaluable pieces of Mayan art, unaware of the consequences of their outrageous act.

Directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios - With Gael García Bernal, Simon Russell Beale, Lynn Gilmartin, Leticia Bredice

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey(2005)

R
| 1h 31min | Documentary, Music
3.8/5 (with 66 votes)

The film discusses the traits and originators of some of metal's many subgenres, including the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, power metal, Nu metal, glam metal, thrash metal, black metal, and death metal. Dunn uses a family-tree-type flowchart to document some of the most popular metal subgenres. The film also explores various aspects of heavy metal culture.

Directed by Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen - With Sam Dunn, Rob Zombie, Dee Snider, Bruce Dickinson, Lemmy, Angela Gossow, ...

Burden of Dreams(1982)

1h 37min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 59 votes)

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.

Directed by Les Blank - With Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards, Klaus Kinski, Werner Herzog, Mick Jagger, José Lewgoy, ...
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Krippendorf's Tribe(1998)

PG-13
| 1h 34min | Comedy, Kids & Family
2.3/5 (with 36 votes)

After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a heretofore undiscovered New Guinea tribe. Grass skirts, makeup, and staged rituals transform his three troubled children into the Shelmikedmu, a primitive culture whose habits enthrall scholars. But when a spiteful rival threatens to blow the whistle on Krippendorf's ruse, he gets into the act as well.

Directed by Todd Holland - With Richard Dreyfuss, Jenna Elfman, Natasha Lyonne, Lily Tomlin, David Ogden Stiers, Elaine Stritch, ...
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The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years(1988)

R
| 1h 33min | Documentary, Music
3.4/5 (with 28 votes)

An exploration of the heavy metal scene in Los Angeles, with particular emphasis on glam metal. It features concert footage and interviews of legendary heavy metal and hard rock bands and artists such as Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Megadeth, Motörhead, Ozzy Osbourne and W.A.S.P..

Directed by Penelope Spheeris - With Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Megadeth, Faster Pussycat, ...
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Global Metal(2008)

1h 33min | Documentary, Music
3.8/5 (with 29 votes)

In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West's most maligned musical genre - heavy metal - has impacted the world's cultures beyond Europe and North America. The film follows metal fan and anthropologist Sam Dunn on a whirlwind journey through Asia, South America and the Middle East as he explores the underbelly of the world's emerging extreme music scenes; from Indonesian death metal to Chinese black metal to Iranian thrash metal. GLOBAL METAL reveals a worldwide community of metalheads who aren't just absorbing metal from the West - they're transforming it - creating a new form of cultural expression in societies dominated by conflict, corruption and mass-consumerism.

Directed by Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen - With Sam Dunn, Bruce Dickinson, Lars Ulrich, Prabhu Deva

American Hardcore(2006)

R
| 1h 40min | Documentary, Music
3.5/5 (with 23 votes)

Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documentary debut is a chronicle of the underground hardcore punk years from 1979 to 1986. Interviews and rare live footage from artists such as Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, SS Decontrol and the Dead Kennedys.

Directed by Paul Rachman
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Statues Also Die(1953)

30min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 17 votes)

Short documentary ordered by the magazine "Présence Africaine". From the question "Why is the african in the Human museum while Greek or Egyptian art are in Le Louvre?", the two directors expose and criticise the lack of consideration for African art. The film was censored in France for eight years because of its anti-colonial perspective.

Directed by Alain Resnais, Chris Marker
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The Wild Party(1929)

1h 17min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in trouble, her professor has to rescue her. Gossip linking the two escalates until Stella proves she is decent by shielding an innocent girl and winning the professor's respect.

Directed by Dorothy Arzner - With Clara Bow, Fredric March, Marceline Day

Hitler's Evil Science(2019)

1h 38min | Documentary, History, TV Movie
3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scientific community supported Nazism, distorted history to legitimize a hideous system and was an accomplice to its unspeakable crimes. The story of the Ahnenerbe, a sinister organization created to rewrite the obscure origins of a nation.

The Fox Family(2006)

1h 42min | Comedy, Fantasy, Music
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

The Kumiho family circus in town -- and with it, apparently, a mysterious murderer. The members of motherless family aren’t helping their case with their strange remarks about humans and their initial performances, cavalcades of dismemberment and torrents of blood which terrify the local kids. Pretty soon, a dour, downbeat cop is on the tail of the plucky, bumbling Kumihos. Or rather, tails -- “kumiho” is the word for the fox spirits of Korean mythology, and this clan from Nam Mountain near Seoul, temporarily disguised as people thanks to a magic spell, must eat human livers during a brief, once-in-a-millennium lunar eclipse to shed their foxy nature and assume permanent human form. When the sleazy reprobate on the run from mobsters stumbles into their eerie household, he soon finds himself a little too enthusiastically involved in their scheming after human flesh—and involved with the sexy elder-sister fox spirit as well!

Directed by Hyung-gon Lee - With Joo Hyun, Ha Jung-woo, Park Si-yeon, Ko Joo-yeon
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Secrets of the Tribe(2010)

1h 38min | Documentary, TV Movie
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unacculturated tribes in existence, the Yanomami, the most exhaustively filmed and studied tribe on the planet? Despite their "do no harm" creed and scientific aims, the small army of anthropologists that has studied the Yanomami since the 1960s has wreaked havoc among the tribe - and sparked a war within the anthropology community itself.

Directed by José Padilha

Far from the Trees(1972)

1h 40min | Documentary
2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

An unprejudiced portrait of Spanish folklore and a crude analysis in black and white of its intimate relationship with atavism and superstition, with violence and pain, with blood and death; a story of terror, a journey to the most sinister and ancestral Spain; the one that lived far from the most visited tourist destinations, from the economic miracle and unstoppable progress, relentlessly promoted by the Franco regime during the sixties.

Directed by Jacinto Esteva Grewe

Le village de Namo - Panorama pris d'une chaise à porteurs(1900)

1min | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 17 votes)

The film is a panorama shot-scene lasting just under a minute. The panorama film, as coined by Lumière, is a moving-camera shot--usually accomplished by placing the camera on a moving transport, such as a boat or train.

The Naked Ape(1973)

PG
| 1h 25min | Animation, Comedy, War
2.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Somewhat based on Desmond Morris's fascinating book of pop anthropology, this partially animated satirical docudrama produced by Playboy Magazine publisher Hugh Hefner, traces the evolution of human kind and offers insight into the reasons why we behave the way we do. Though often dealing with sexuality, nothing in the film is terribly offensive or graphic. A prime example of mainstream experimental film-making from the early 70's featuring a young and breathtakingly lovely Victoria Principal.

Directed by Donald Driver - With Johnny Crawford

1968 with Tom Brokaw(2007)

2h | Documentary
2.1/5 (with 1 vote)

In 1968, the fury and violence of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago propelled us toward a tipping point in politics. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated, America suffered its bloodiest year in Vietnam and drugs seduced us. Yet idealism--and hope--flourished. Explore the significance of that turbulent year and the way it continues to affect the American landscape. Tom Brokaw offers his perspective on the era and shares the rich personal odysseys of some of the people who lived through that chaotic time, along with the stories of younger people now experiencing its aftershocks. Includes archival footage and interviews with former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, who was talking to King when he was assassinated and rushed to his side to try to staunch the wound; Olympic gold medalist Rafer Johnson, who wrestled RFKs' assassin to the ground; and Arlo Guthrie, best known for his song "Alice's Restaurant.

The Winds of the Milky Way(1978)

54min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Sequel to the "The Waterfowl People". The author interprets the kinship, linguistic and cultural relationships of the Finno-Ugric peoples. Finns, Vepsians, Votes, Setos, Erzya-Mordvinians, Mansi, Hungarians, Sami, Nganasans, and Estonians appear in the film. The film was shot in 1977 on location in northern Finland, Sapmi, Vepsia, Votia, Mordovia, Khantia-Mansia, Hungary, the Taymyr Peninsula, the Setomaa region in Estonia, and on the Estonian islands of Saaremaa and Muhu. Footage was also shot in 1970 in the Nenets Okrug. The second documentary in Lennart Meri's "Encyclopaedia Cinematographica Gentium Fenno - Ugricarum" series.

Directed by Lennart Meri

Kill Your Idols(2004)

1h 15min | Documentary, Music
3.6/5 (with 5 votes)

A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from the genuine authenticity of No Wave to the current generation of would be icons and true innovators seeing to represent New York City in the 21st century.

Directed by Scott Crary - With Glenn Branca

A Venue For The End Of The World(2014)

1h 35min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern entertainers, a filmmaker investigates the dangers of audience manipulation and leader worship.

The Pottery Makers(1965)

25min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

Raymundo Gleyzer's documentary on o community of Pottery Makers in the west of Cordoba province in Argentina who create pieces to sell to the tourists.

Trance and Dance in Bali(1952)

22min | Documentary
2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

Explores the themes of trance and dance in the rituals and religion of Bali. The famous Kris Dance is performed.

Directed by Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson

Repas d'indiens(1896)

1min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Native Mexican people grouped in front of the camera.

Repas d'indiens(1896)

1min | Documentary
2.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Native Mexican people grouped in front of the camera.

Bamboo Theatre(2019)

1h 16min | Documentary, Music
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

This film is a portrait of unique cultural space for Spirits, Gods and People. While permanent theatres are commonly built in most cosmopolitan modern cities, Hong Kong preserves a unique theatrical architecture, a Chinese tradition that has lasted more than a century - Bamboo Theatre.

The Sea Stares at Us from Afar(2018)

1h 34min | Documentary

Huelva, Spain, an isolated region lost in time. The grass, the sand and the sky are the same that those foreigners saw in the spring of 1895, when they crossed the sea from a distant country to mark the unspoiled terrain and extract its wealth, when the tower was new, when people could climb to the top of the highest dune and imagine that the city of Tartessos was still there, in the distance, almost invisible in the morning brume.

The Sounds of Kaleva(1985)

41min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

A three-act film-essay about memory and the historical-cultural ties of the Finno- Ugric peoples. The first chapter is dedicated to ancient Bearese of memory, such as Karelian cliff drawings, Kalevala runo song and Khanty bear feast rituals. the second act portrays the visit of Elias Lonnrot, compiler of the Finnish national epic Kalevala, to Estonia and his meetings with local intellectuals. Part three re-enacts an ancient smelting and blacksmith ritual set to Veljo Tormis' cantata 'curse upon iron'. Filmed in 1985 in Uhtuo, Karelia; in Khantia-Mansia at the Agan river, a tributary of the Ob; and in Estonia (Tallinn, Kuusalu, Tartu, Voru, Litsmetsa in Voru county, Lullemae, Karula, Rongu, Narva, and at a bend of the Pirita river). The third documentary in Lennart Meri's "Encyclopaedia Cinematographica Gentium Fenno - Ugricarum" series.

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