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Visit, or Memories and Confessions (1993)
7.5 / 10

Documentary

A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.

Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons (1974)
6.5 / 10

Documentary, Drama

Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman...

The Solitudes (1992)
5.5 / 10

Chile is seen through the eyes of a Chinese painter - a traditional painter who uses the concepts of XVIII century Shih-T'ao.

Dr Tscharniblues (1979)
0 / 10

Documentary, Drama

Bern, 1979: a tower block called Tscharnergut. A group of friends get together to make a film about their experiences growing up in suburban...

Parallel Lives (2021)
0 / 10

Documentary

Born June 8, 1964, Frank Matter films four "twins", born the same day as him, but in other latitudes. Interweaving their life stories with rich...

Pornografia (1993)
0 / 10

Documentary

An essay-film about images and politicians.

Fake Fiction (2018)
0 / 10

Oxymoron Life... (2023)
0 / 10

Drama, Fantasy

The wanderer Rascal embarks on a psychotic and contradictory journey to break out of the ego bubble in which his self-loathing and isolation have...

Bolivia (1998)
0 / 10

Documentary

Photography trip to Bolivia filmed with a rostrum camera and edited with original sounds from the country.

Long Live Hunting! (2014)
0 / 10

Documentary

Treblinka (2016)
2 / 10

Present, past and future merge in the wagons of a train that crosses Eastern Europe in the XXI century: Poland, Russia, Ukraine. The slogan of the...

The Hag (1969)
0 / 10

Horror

An innocent essay in a college-creative writing class sets off a terrifying and deadly chain of events. Will they be able to stop her, or will she...

Pineapple (2020)
0 / 10

Documentary

A short made during quarantine. - "I feel like I'm coming out of hibernation. I did not learn anything, I did not developed personal growth, nor...

Obit (2017)
6.4 / 10

Documentary

How do you put a life into 500 words? Ask the staff obituary writers at the New York Times. OBIT is a first-ever glimpse into the daily rituals, joys...

I, Apostate (2018)
0 / 10

Documentary

A fantasia of post-indoctrination, immigration, and iconography. A pageant of wanderers and searchers: Mormon missionaries, a pioneer, polygamists,...

Ozu: Passageways (2012)
7.5 / 10

Documentary

People constantly appear walking through passageways in the films of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu (1903-63). His art resides in the in-between...

Taube Feuer (2024)
0 / 10

Documentary

With noise-canceling headphones, they communicate with an inaudible counterpart. Decoupled, they move around the room and meet their surroundings....

D is for Division (2018)
6.3 / 10

Documentary

1940. On the border between Latvia and the USSR, a woman is killed in front of her house as she tried to protect her son from the liberating attack...

Unpublished Visions (2021)
0 / 10

Documentary

Four filmmakers working in the region of Galicia (in the northwest of Spain) follow and portray on the screen Galician artists working in disciplines...

Debra Paget, For Example (2016)
3.2 / 10

Documentary

A video essay where the author presumes motivations and insights in a fictionalized biography regarding Debra Paget, a contract player for...