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Pain and Glory(2019)

1h 54min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 794 votes)

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar - With Antonio Banderas, Cecilia Roth, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Penélope Cruz, Asier Etxeandía, Nora Navas, ...

My Week with Marilyn(2011)

PG-13
| 1h 39min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 581 votes)

London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe. Young Colin Clark, who dreams on having a career in movie business, manages to get a job on the set as third assistant director.

Directed by Simon Curtis - With Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Redmayne, Emma Watson, Judi Dench, Dominic Cooper, ...
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Deep Throat: When Porn Makes Its Premiere(2022)

54min | Documentary, History, TV Movie
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Deep Throat, a pornographic film directed by Gerard Damiano, a film-loving hairdresser, and starring Linda Lovelace, a shy girl manipulated by a controlling husband, was released in 1972 and divided audiences, who began to talk openly about sex, desire and female pleasure; but also about violence and abuse; and about pornography, until then an almost clandestine industry, as a revolutionary cultural phenomenon.

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat(1897)

1min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 202 votes)

Likely in June 1897, a group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.

Directed by Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière

Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!(2021)

58min | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 39 votes)

Movie stars and members of the film industry make fun of several narrative and visual clichés that are as shocking and aesthetic as they are often truly ridiculous.

The Day of the Locust(1975)

R
| 2h 25min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 33 votes)

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.

Directed by John Schlesinger - With William Atherton, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, Donald Sutherland, Geraldine Page, Bo Hopkins, ...
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Corman's World(2011)

1h 31min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 32 votes)

A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious low-budget producer and director in the US film industry, a pioneer of independent filmmaking and discoverer of new talent.

Directed by Alex Stapleton - With Roger Corman, Robert De Niro, Quentin Tarantino, Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, ...

Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age(2021)

53min | Documentary, TV Movie
3.9/5 (with 7 votes)

Hawaii, May 1977. After the success of Star Wars, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg meet to find a new project to work on together, the former as producer, the latter as director. The story of how the charismatic archaeologist Indiana Jones was born and how his first adventure, released in 1981, triumphed at box offices around the world.

Directed by Clélia Cohen, Antoine Coursat

LOLA(2023)

1h 19min | Drama, Science Fiction, War
3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

Sussex, England, 1938. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Thomasina and Martha Hanbury, two ingenious sisters, create LOLA, a miraculous machine.

Directed by Andrew Legge - With Emma Appleton, Stefanie Martini, Rory Fleck-Byrne, Aaron Monaghan, Hugh O'Conor, Ayvianna Snow, ...

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words(2015)

NR
| 1h 54min | Documentary, History
3.6/5 (with 29 votes)

A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), a young Swedish woman who became one of the most celebrated actresses in world cinema.

Directed by Stig Björkman - With Isotta Ingrid Rossellini, Isabella Rossellini, Roberto Rossellini, Fiorella Mariani, Liv Ullmann, Sigourney Weaver, ...
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The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy(2013)

1h 16min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 9 votes)

This feature-length documentary delves into the trilogy, opening with the inspiration and vision for the new Batman films and inching its way toward the Rises finale and the culmination of nearly a decade of creative blood, sweat and tears. Candid, thoughtful and extensive, and comprised of revealing behind-the-scenes footage, countless interviews, audition tapes (with Christian Bale and Cillian Murphy doning the cape and cowl), and a narrative grip and momentum all its own, it leaves no stone unturned.

Even the Wind Is Afraid(1968)

1h 28min | Horror, Thriller, Drama
3.9/5 (with 49 votes)

A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.

Directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada - With Marga López, Maricruz Olivier, Alicia Bonet, Norma Lazareno
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn(2003)

1h 22min | Drama, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 53 votes)

On a dark and rainy night, a historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts feature "Dragon Inn". As the film plays, the lives of the theater's various employees and patrons intersect, and two ghostly actors arrive to mourn the passing of an era.

Directed by Tsai Ming-liang - With Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi

Rapture(1980)

1h 50min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
3.4/5 (with 31 votes)

José Sirgado is a low-budget filmmaker whose heroin addiction distorts his perspective of the real world. Although he is a depressed and unstable individual, his mood improves when he receives the mysterious films of Pedro, with whom he shares his passion for cinema.

Directed by Ivan Zulueta - With Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Marta Fernández-Muro, Helena Fernán-Gómez, Carmen Giralt, ...

Mifune: The Last Samurai(2016)

1h 20min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 19 votes)

An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.

Directed by Steven Okazaki

RKO 281(2000)

R
| 1h 24min | Drama, History, TV Movie
3.2/5 (with 35 votes)

In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the purpose of making his first film.

Directed by Benjamin Ross - With Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich, Brenda Blethyn, Roy Scheider, ...

Poison for the Fairies(1986)

1h 30min | Fantasy, Horror
3.7/5 (with 43 votes)

In 1965 Mexico City, Flavia, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Veronica, a young orphan girl who has a fascination with witchcraft. Veronica convinces Flavia that she is a real witch and forces her to be her assistant. The children's games gradually become more serious and Veronica demands more from Flavia.

Directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada - With Ana Patricia Rojo, Leonor Llausás, Arturo Beristáin

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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Porn to Be Free(2016)

1h 19min | Documentary, History
2.8/5 (with 37 votes)

Italy, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom through pornography, shaking and shocking religious authorities and conservative political institutions. They are ironic, happy, crazy. They are dreamers, defenders of definitive communion between body and soul. But they were censored and humiliated. They were mistreated and arrested for demanding loud a new cultural renaissance.

Directed by Carmine Amoroso - With Judith Malina, Riccardo Schicchi, Ilona Staller, Giuliana Gamba

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology(2012)

R
| 2h 16min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 55 votes)

A journey into the labyrinthine heart of ideology, which shapes and justifies both collective and personal beliefs and practices: with an infectious zeal and voracious appetite for popular culture, Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek analyzes several of the most important films in the history of cinema to explain how cinematic narrative helps to reinforce prevailing ethics and political ideas.

Directed by Sophie Fiennes - With Slavoj Žižek
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A. K.(1985)

G
| 1h 15min | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 15 votes)

In 1985, Chris Marker traveled to Japan to attend the filming of Ran, directed by Akira Kurosawa. Marker analyzes the progress of filming; the infinite patience of a team under the orders of a meticulous director down to the smallest detail; the antithetical mixture of the modern with the traditional; of the real with the fictitious; of life with cinema… and literature.

Directed by Chris Marker - With Akira Kurosawa, Tatsuya Nakadai

[REC]: Horror Without Pause(2022)

1h 45min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

The horror film [REC] — directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza, and released in 2007 — was an unprecedented triumph for Spanish fantasy cinema. Fifteen years later, those responsible for the creation and worldwide success of this cinematic milestone decode its keys and resurrect the myth.

Trespassing Bergman(2013)

1h 48min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 14 votes)

In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, left Stockholm and went to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special cinephiles, came from all over the world, travel to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy. (An abridged version of Bergmans video, 2012.)

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The Pervert's Guide to Cinema(2006)

2h 30min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 69 votes)

A hilarious introduction, using as examples some of the best films ever made, to some of Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek's most exciting ideas on personal subjectivity, fantasy and reality, desire and sexuality.

Directed by Sophie Fiennes - With Slavoj Žižek

In Like Flynn(2018)

R
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Action, Adventure
2.6/5 (with 18 votes)

A mostly true account of future Hollywood star Errol Flynn's sea adventures in the early thirties, sailing from Australia to Papua in search of gold, along with his best friend Rex, a former Canadian smuggler; Dook, a handy English gentleman; and Charlie, a grumpy old sailor.

Directed by Russell Mulcahy - With Thomas Cocquerel, Corey William Large, William Moseley, Clive Standen, Callan Mulvey, David Wenham, ...

Chronicle of a Summer(1961)

1h 27min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 38 votes)

Paris, summer of 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch, along with sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin, both assisted by Marceline and Nadine, roam the crowded streets asking ordinary people how they deal with the misfortunes of life. Are you happy? But their real purpose is to find out if people can speak sincerely in front of a camera and how they react when they are later invited to analyze the meaning of their answers.

Directed by Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin - With Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Régis Debray

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie(1996)

PG-13
| 1h 13min | Comedy, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 86 votes)

The mad and evil scientist, Dr. Clayton Forrester, has created an evil little scheme that is bound to give him world global domination but first things first. He plans to torment Mike Nelson and the robots by sending them a real stinker of a film to watch called, "This Island Earth." He is convinced that this movie will drive them insane. Will this be the ultimate cheese that breaks the boys' spirits?

Directed by Jim Mallon - With Trace Beaulieu
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The Harder They Come(1972)

R
| 1h 43min | Crime, Drama, Music
3.4/5 (with 43 votes)

Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. He records his first song, "The Harder They Come," but after a bitter dispute with a manipulative producer named Hilton, soon finds himself resorting to petty crime in order to pay the bills. He deals marijuana, kills some abusive cops and earns local folk hero status. Meanwhile, his record is topping the charts.

Directed by Perry Henzell - With Jimmy Cliff, Prince Buster, Carl Bradshaw, Ras Daniel Heartman, Winston Stona, Leslie Kong, ...
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The Blade Runner Phenomenon(2021)

53min | Documentary, TV Movie
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Ridley Scott's cult film Blade Runner, based on a novel by Philip K. Dick and released in 1982, is one of the most influential science fiction films ever made. Its depiction of Los Angeles in the year 2019 is oppressively prophetic: climate catastrophe, increasing public surveillance, powerful monopolistic corporations, highly evolved artificial intelligence; a fantastic vision of the future world that has become a frightening reality.

After Midnight(2004)

1h 32min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 22 votes)

The magical Mole Antonelliana (the cavernous Museum of Cinema in Turin, Italy) is the setting for a very unlikely love story. One fateful evening the museum's timid night watchman, comes to the aid of an enchanting young fast-food cook on the run from the police. The museum's dreamy kingdom of silent movie characters becomes a sanctuary for her as she awaits rescue by her devilish boyfriend.

Directed by Davide Ferrario - With Giorgio Pasotti, Francesca Inaudi, Fabio Troiano, Silvio Orlando, Francesca Picozza
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