Best "culture" Movies of All Time

103 movies found (page 1/4):

Saludos Amigos(1942)

42min | Animation, Kids & Family, Adventure

3.0/5 (with 180 votes)

Live-action segments show members of the Disney staff touring South America and recording their impressions in sketches. These segue into four animated sections: "Lake Titicaca" depicts tourist Donald Duck's troubles with a stubborn llama; "Pedro" tells of a little mail plane's adventures flying over the treacherous Andes; "El Gaucho Goofy" transplants an American cowboy into the Argentine pampas; and in "Aquarela do Brasil," Jose Carioca shows Donald the sights and sounds of Rio de Janiero.

Directed by Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts - With Lee Blair, Mary Blair, Walt Disney, Norm Ferguson, Frank Graham, Frank Thomas, ...

Le Divorce(2003)

1h 57min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.5/5 (with 61 votes)

While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.

Directed by James Ivory - With Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Glenn Close, Thierry Lhermitte, Melvil Poupaud, Stockard Channing, ...

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The Breadwinner(2017)

1h 34min | Animation, War, Drama

4.0/5 (with 351 votes)

A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan, ruled by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.

Directed by Nora Twomey

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Baraka(1992)

1h 38min | Documentary

4.1/5 (with 253 votes)

A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.

Directed by Ron Fricke

A Stranger Among Us(1992)

1h 50min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love

2.8/5 (with 38 votes)

Detective Emily Eden is a tough New York City cop forced to go undercover to solve a puzzling murder. Her search for the truth takes her into a secret world of unwritten law and unspoken power, a world where the only way out is deeper in.

Directed by Sidney Lumet - With Melanie Griffith, John Pankow, Tracy Pollan, Mia Sara, Jamey Sheridan, James Gandolfini, ...

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Human(2015)

3h 11min | Documentary

4.3/5 (with 134 votes)

A collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human. Through these stories full of love and happiness, as well as hatred and violence, it brings us face to face with the Other, making us reflect on our lives. From stories of everyday experiences to accounts of the most unbelievable lives, these poignant encounters share a rare sincerity and underline who we are – our darker side, but also what is most noble in us, and what is universal. Our Earth is shown at its most sublime through never-before-seen aerial images accompanied by soaring music, resulting in an ode to the beauty of the world, providing a moment to draw breath and for introspection. This film is a politically engaged work which allows us to embrace the human condition and to reflect on the meaning of our existence.

Directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Skateland(2011)

1h 38min | Drama

2.8/5 (with 13 votes)

In the early 1980s, in small-town Texas, dramatic events force a 19-year-old skating rink manager to look at his life in a very new way.

Directed by Anthony Burns - With Shiloh Fernandez, Ashley Greene, Brett Cullen, James LeGros, Taylor Handley, Haley Ramm, ...

Bangalore Naatkal(2016)

2h 36min | Drama, Kids & Family, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

Three cousins, Arjun, Divya and Kannan, relocate to Bangalore for various reasons. However, they face many challenges which change their lives forever.

Directed by Bhaskar - With Arya

Iraivi(2016)

2h 33min | Crime, Drama, Kids & Family, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

Three men try to overcome the problems in their lives not realising the impact their efforts are having on the women in their lives.

Directed by Karthik Subbaraj - With Vijay Sethupathi, S. J. Surya, Bobby Simha, Anjali, Kamalinee Mukherjee

Welcome to Norway!(2016)

1h 30min | Drama, Comedy

2.9/5 (with 13 votes)

A couple decide to open a home for refuges in the remote cold mountains of Norway.

Directed by Rune Denstad Langlo - With Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Henriette Steenstrup, Henrik Rafaelsen

The Painter and the Thief(2020)

1h 42min | Documentary

3.7/5 (with 18 votes)

When two of artist Barbora Kysilkova’s most valuable paintings are stolen from a gallery at Frogner in Oslo, the police are able to find the thief after a few days, but the paintings are nowhere to be found. Barbora goes to the trial in hopes of finding clues, but instead she ends up asking the thief if she can paint a portrait of him. This will be the start of a very unusual friendship. Over three years, the cinematic documentary follows the incredible story of the artist looking for her stolen paintings, while at the same time turning the thief into art.

Directed by Benjamin Ree

The Human Scale(2012)

1h 23min | Documentary

3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

50 % of the world’s population lives in urban areas. By 2050 this will increase to 80%. Life in a mega city is both enchanting and problematic. Today we face peak oil, climate change, loneliness and severe health issues due to our way of life. But why? The Danish architect and professor Jan Gehl has studied human behavior in cities through 40 years. He has documented how modern cities repel human interaction, and argues that we can build cities in a way, which takes human needs for inclusion and intimacy into account.

Directed by Andreas Dalsgaard - With Jan Gehl

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Angelitos negros(1948)

1h 40min | Drama

4.0/5 (with 22 votes)

Starring Mexican star Pedro Infante, "Black Angels" is about a couple formed by a beautiful woman and a singer, both white, who are parents of a black girl. The woman blames him, but the girl will suffer the racist treatment from her own mother. Mexican version of the famous novel by Fannie Hurst "Imitation of Life".

Directed by Joselito Rodríguez - With Pedro Infante, Emilia Guiú, Rita Montaner, María Douglas

Sway(2014)

1h 48min | Drama

2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Three parallel love stories set in three different cities are set against some of the major international events of the last five years, in this ambitious.

American Desi(2001)

1h 40min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama

3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

College freshman Krishna Reddy, who has never cared for his Indian-American cultural heritage, looks forward to a new life on campus but is surprised to find that he has been assigned Indian roommates.

Directed by Piyush Dinker Pandya - With Deep Katdare, Purva Bedi, Rizwan Manji, Kal Penn, Tirlok Malik, Sunita Param, ...

The 50 Year Argument(2014)

1h 35min | Documentary

3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review of Books, America’s leading journal of ideas for over 50 years. Provocative, idiosyncratic and incendiary, the film weaves rarely seen archival material, contributor interviews, excerpts from writings by such icons as James Baldwin, Gore Vidal, and Joan Didion along with original verité footage filmed in the Review’s West Village offices.

Directed by Martin Scorsese - With Michael Stuhlbarg, Patricia Clarkson, Ken Watanabe, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, Václav Havel, ...

Shambo Shiva Shambo(2010)

2h 40min | Action

3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Karunakar, Malli and Chandu are close friends and each of them has individual goals. Karunakar is in love with his cousin whose father wants him to get a government job first. Malli dreams of going to a foreign land as soon as he gets his passport, while Chandu aims to set up a Computer training centre and is in love with Karunakar’s sister Pavithra. The trio enjoy life hanging out together. Karunakar’s friend Santosh, son of a politician, is in love with his family’s arch rival's daughter. The three friends come forward to unite these love birds against all odds. In the process, Karunakar loses job and misses his cousin, Malli loses his hearing, and Chandu has his leg amputated. 10 days later, the married lovers seek divorce. The friends, who sacrificed so much to unite them, now teach them a lesson.

Directed by Samuthirakani - With Ravi Teja, Allari Naresh, Priyamani, Abhinaya, Indukuri Sunil Varma

Voulez-vous rire avec moi ce soir?(2018)

1h 33min | Documentary, Comedy

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

French humorist Yacine Belhousse tours the world to explore how stand-up comedians make audiences laugh across cultures.

Libido(1973)

1h 57min | Drama

2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal desires explores adultery and jealous fantasies, the end of innocence, the moral and spiritual conflicts of a priest and a nun in love. The stories define the exploration of women and the cultural upheaval of the early 70s.

Directed by Tim Burstall, Fred Schepisi, John B. Murray - With Judy Morris, Jack Thompson, Max Gillies, Robyn Nevin, Jill Forster, Elke Neidhardt, ...

Bombin'(1987)

56min | Documentary, TV Movie

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

First broadcast in 1987 on the UK's Channel 4, Bombin' is a documentary about Afrika Bambaataa's Zulu nation bringing American hip-hop culture to the UK for first time. The main focus is the graffiti art of Brim and the variety of reactions he is faced with from the British public and press.

Do You Take This Stranger?(1971)

1h 40min | Drama, TV Movie

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A social climber/con artist schemes to inherit one million dollars by trading identities with a dying man.

Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art(1983)

1h | Kids & Family, Fantasy, Music

3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

As the Metropolitan Museum of Art closes, Big Bird decides to leave his Sesame Street friends behind in search of Snuffy. Once locked inside for the night, educational hilarity ensues as Big Bird and Snuffy team up to help a small Egyptian boy solve a riddle - as the rest of the cast searches for their big, yellow friend.

Die Toten von Salzburg - Königsmord(2018)

1h 30min | Crime

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Palfinger has to work on a case again with Mur from Bavaria, because the Bavarian sausage king Gschwandtner was found murdered in his villa in Salzburg. One of his Romanian foster children, seven-year-old Tyki, has disappeared while the fingerprints of Tyki's older sister Liana were found on the murder weapon. The investigators dive behind the intact family backdrop into an abyss of hatred, greed, betrayal and deception.

Directed by Erhard Riedlsperger - With Florian Teichtmeister, Michael Fitz, Fanny Krausz, Erwin Steinhauer, Mila Böhning

Somewhere Between(2012)

1h 28min | Documentary

3.7/5 (with 4 votes)

Questions of race, identity and heritage are explored through the lives of young American women growing up as adoptees from China. These four distinct individuals reflect on their experiences as members of transracial families.

#Y(2014)

1h 40min | Drama

4.1/5 (with 3 votes)

"#Y" chronicles the adventures of the members of a generation made universal by social media, internet, sex, drugs and alcohol.

Camões(1946)

1h 58min | Drama, History

3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

The adventurous life of Portugal's epic poet, Luis de Camões.

Directed by José Leitão de Barros - With António Vilar, Leonor Maia, Vasco Santana, António Silva, José Amaro

Black Cloaks(1947)

1h 43min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

The great fadista, Amelia Rodrigues, made her screen debut in Capas Negras, which took its name from the black capes worn by the students in the university city of Coimbra, where the film is set. The action begins in a tavern where a group of former students are reminiscing about their time at the university. One of the students, Jose Duarte then breaks into song, performing an impromptu fado in the local Coimbra style. The tavern owner's niece, the aptly named Maria Lisboa promptly retaliates with a fado of the Lisbon variety. The melodramatic plot then centers on the frustrated romance between these two characters, and the soundtrack is essentially a musical duel between these two different styles of Portugal's national song.

Directed by Armando de Miranda - With Amália Rodrigues, Artur Agostinho, Alberto Ribeiro

Everything Is a Remix(2010)

35min | Documentary

3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

An ambitious four-part documentary on the history and cultural significance of sampling and collaborative creation.

Until Sbornia Do Us Apart(2013)

1h 33min | Animation, Comedy, Music

2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Sbórnia is an island with a rich but eccentric culture, separated from the rest of the world by a high wall. When the wall comes down, cultural change plays hilarious havoc on the lives of two traditional Sbórnian musicians.

Directed by Otto Guerra, Ennio Torresan

Dead Heart(1996)

1h 44min | Mystery, Thriller, Drama