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Movies: Best "semi documentary" Movies


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The Naked City(1948)

1h 36min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 101 votes)

The Naked City portrays the police investigation that follows the murder of a young model. A veteran cop is placed in charge of the case and he sets about, with the help of other beat cops and detectives, finding the girl's killer.

The Street with No Name(1948)

1h 31min | Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
3.2/5 (with 19 votes)

After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail...and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the FBI recruits a young agent, Gene Cordell, to go undercover in the shadowy Skid Row area (alias George Manly) as a potential victim of the same racket. Soon, Gene meets Alec Stiles, neurotic mastermind who's "building an organization along scientific lines." Stiles recruits Cordell, whose job becomes a lot more dangerous.

The Big Lift(1950)

3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

The Berlin Air Lift from the point of view of two NCOs.

The House on 92nd Street(1945)

1h 28min | Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
3.2/5 (with 15 votes)

The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States.

Bombardier(1943)

1h 39min | Drama, War
2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.

The Tijuana Story(1957)

1h 12min | Crime
2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Courageous newspaper editor Manuel Acosta Mesa tries to take on the mob in Tijuana through his newspaper, reporting on the violence, prostitution and drug sales in the border town.

Directed by László Kardos - With James Darren

Distant Journey(1949)

1h 48min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, their romance turns into a struggle for survival.

Against the Law(2017)

3.6/5 (with 11 votes)

United Kingdom, March 24, 1954. Ten years before the decriminalization of homosexuality, journalist Peter Wildeblood and his friends Lord Montagu and Michael Pitt-Rivers are convicted and imprisoned for indecency and sodomy.

Directed by Fergus O'Brien - With Charlie Creed-Miles, Mark Gatiss, Daniel Mays, David Robb, Richard Gadd, Paul Keating, ...

C-Man(1949)

1h 15min | Crime
2.7/5 (with 13 votes)

A customs agent follows a jewel smuggler's trail of corpses from Paris to New York.

Directed by Joseph Lerner - With John Carradine, Dean Jagger

Pretty Little Liars: A-List Wrap Party(2017)

Immediately following the highly anticipated two-hour finale episode of the fan favorite series, Pretty Little Liars stars Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson, Lucy Hale, Shay Mitchell, and Sasha Pieterse, as well as executive producer I. Marlene King, will sit down for an hour long unbarred and uncensored tell-all after show to discuss all of the series’ tightly held secrets, behind-the-scenes insights, and top moments.

Privilege(1967)

1h 43min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 11 votes)

Britain's biggest pop singer, Steven Shorter (Paul Jones), receives unwavering adulation and possesses total control over his rabid fans, which includes nearly the entire population. Yet Shorter is not an autonomous performer -- he is little more than a puppet for the government, promoting whatever agenda they see fit. When a beautiful artist, Vanessa Ritchie (Jean Shrimpton), is commissioned to paint his portrait, she pushes Shorter to question his obedience to his manipulative handlers.

Directed by Peter Watkins - With Paul Jones, Jean Shrimpton, Jeremy Child, James Cossins

Straight to VHS(2021)

1h 16min | Documentary, History
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Act of Violence Upon a Young Journalist is a film shot in 1988 and released on VHS in 1989; a mysterious cult work of Uruguayan cinema surrounded by strange theories about Manuel Lamas, its unknown creator. Until now.

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The Interrogation of Tony Martin(2018)

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Norfolk, England, 1999. During three days, farmer Tony Martin is questioned by police following the violent death of Fred Barras, a teenage burglar who broke into his property, Bleak House, in Emneth Hungate, along with other intruder, Brendon Fearon, on the evening of August 20th of that year.

Directed by David Nath

The Last Stage(1948)

1h 50min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family. She is assigned the role of interpreter, but her loved ones are much less fortunate.

Post Office Box 1001(1950)

1h 32min | Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

Barcelona, Spain. A young man is murdered in the middle of the street in front of the police headquarters. Miguel and Marcial, two agents of the Criminal Brigade in charge of the investigation, find in the victim's room a newspaper where a cryptic classified ad appears.

Silence Has No Wings(1966)

1h 40min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 8 votes)

Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life's turning points.

Directed by Kazuo Kuroki

Semi-Documentary: Runaway Sex Gang(1976)

1h 2min
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

Sasquatch, the Legend of Bigfoot(1976)

2.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Scientists mount an expedition to find a Bigfoot-type creature.

Directed by Ed Ragozzino

The Last Glacier(1984)

A docudrama on the closing of the town of Schefferville. When Raoul loses his job at the mine because the operations are ending, he's been settled there for ten years with Carmen and their son. They're now forced to leave the town, leaving behind the traces of an ephemeral prosperity.

Directed by Jacques Leduc, Roger Frappier - With Louise Laprade, Michel Rivard, Robert Gravel

Once More Unto the Breach(2019)

1h 10min | Drama, History, War
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

July, 1941. After the beginning of the German invasion, an Italian soldier, a veteran of the colonial wars, is sent to the Soviet front. As he remembers the fairy tales his Russian mother used to tell him, the train he is travelling in crosses Europe on its way to the vast Ukrainian plains, where the enemy and a cruel winter await him… (Based on the experiences of several Italian soldiers.)

Directed by Federico Ferrone, Michele Manzolini

The Golden Girls: Their Greatest Moments(2003)

1h 30min | Documentary, TV Movie

A 90 minute special reuniting the main cast of the American sitcom, "The Golden Girls", where they share their favorite moments from the show, behind-the-scenes footage, and plenty of laughs.

Directed by Andrew Solt - With Bea Arthur

Tell Me(2022)

1h 55min
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Renpei Tsukamoto - With Tsubasa Imai, Takashi Tsukamoto, Kenjirō Tsuda, Yoshihiko Hosoda, Naoki Kawano, Shingo, ...

Gordon B. Hinckley: A Giant Among Men(2008)

This is the first film to dramatize how President Hinckley was prepared by the Lord from his youth. From boyhood lessons, to tender moments with his mother in their library, to overcoming rejection in the mission field, you will feel the warmth that endeared him to so many later in life. In the railroad yard, behind a typewriter, and hand-in-hand with Marjorie, the love of his life, Gordon B. Hinckley grew to become a giant among men.

Navajo(1952)

1h 10min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A young Navajo Indian boy is caught up in the conflict of cultures when he rejects the white man's school. Told in semi-documentary style.

Directed by Norman Foster - With Hall Bartlett

Coup(2021)

1h 22min | Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Hamburg, Germany, summer 1988. A young bank employee embezzles a large amount of money using an ingenious technique and flees to Australia, from where he phones his girlfriend to tell her what he has done so easily; but her reaction is not what he naively expected.

Directed by Sven O. Hill - With Daniel Michel, Tomasz Robak, Paula Kalenberg, Rocko Schamoni, Fabienne Elaine Hollwege, Leonard Kunz, ...

Winter Journey(2019)

1h 29min | Drama, History
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his past in Nazi Germany as a member of a family of Jewish musicians and the strange history of the Jüdischer Kulturbund, a Jewish organization sponsored by Reichsminister Joseph Goebbels.

Los Montes(1982)

35min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Los Montes de la Ermita, region of Bierzo Alto, in the province of León, Spain. Six women assist Joaquín —the only and last inhabitant of the remote village, located on the slopes of the mythical and mysterious Catoute Peak—, who is in danger of death due to an unfortunate accident.

Lola vende cá(2002)

1h 32min | Drama, Romance / Love

Lola is a young gypsy of uncertain origin who was adopted, as a newborn, by a family among whom she has grown up with gypsy customs and traditions. When the young woman finishes high school, she considers, against her family and her social environment, to continue her studies and pursue a teaching career. At that moment of his adolescent life, love appears when he meets Juan, a gypsy of his age.

Directed by Llorenç Soler - With Cristina Brondo, Carles Flavià, Tortell Poltrona, Bea Segura, Santi Ricart

Empire State Building Murders(2008)

1h 28min | Mystery

A tribute and doc-crime-drama celebrating American film noir and the icons of the Hollywood golden age. It recaptures the time and place of New York in the 30's and 40s as well as plays with the codes and references of the genre.

Directed by William Karel

Lloydie, The Boy from St. Thomas(2019)

Keifer Nyron Taylor captures the last days of his grandfather, Lloydie Plummer, exploring his violent upbringing in Jamaica, his close friends and the damage done to the family he built after migrating to the UK.

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