The Way I See It (2020), Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye (2003), Alice in the Cities (1974), War Photographer (2002), Bill Cunningham New York (2010), A Hard Day's Night (1964), The Others (2001), A Great Day in Harlem (1994) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Photography movies.
Storyline: Ex-convict Danny Kean decides to become honest as a photographer for a paper. He falls in love with Patricia, the daughter of the policeman who arrested him. Mr Nolan, her father, doesn't like that relation at first, but McLean, Kean's boss, convinces him of Kean's good nature. But Kean uses his relation to Patricia to make a photo of an execution. Due to this, Nolan loses his stripes and Kean isn't allowed to see Patricia any longer. But when one of his former friends kills two policemen, Kean sees his chance....—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: photographer, editor, student, reporter, police officer, criminal, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The meaning of art itself comes into question in this documentary about Shelby Lee Adams' controversial photos of families in Appalachia.
Plot Keywords: photographer, poor person, emotional, engaging, striking, appalachia, kentucky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Fashion photographer Dick Avery, in search for an intellectual backdrop for an air-headed model, expropriates a Greenwich Village bookstore. When the photo session is over the store is left in a shambles, much to salesgirl Jo Stockton's dismay. Avery stays behind to help her clean up. Later, he examines the photos taken there and sees Jo in the background of one shot. He is intrigued by her unique appearance, as is Maggie Prescott, the editor of a leading fashion magazine. They offer Jo a modeling contract, which she reluctantly accepts only because it includes a trip to Paris. Eventually, her snobbish attitude toward the job softens, and Jo begins to enjoy the work and the company of her handsome photographer.
Plot Keywords: photographer, model, bookseller, magazine editor, philosopher, frenchman, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A homage to Bruce Weber's Favourite things, these being mixing film, photography and classic movies. With portraits of a lesbian jazz singer and a 16 year old wrestler.
Plot Keywords: gritty, hedonistic, sultry, creative, photography studio, photography, modeling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Middle aged Sy Parrish works as a technician at a one hour photo lab located in a SavMart store in a suburban mall. Sy is a lonely man, never having had any friends. He knows much about his customers through the photographs they have developed. But he knows more about the Yorkin family - specifically Nina Yorkin and her adolescent son Jake Yorkin, the two in the family who drop off and pick up the family's photofinishing - the family about whom he is obsessed, than anyone else. Nina's husband, Will Yorkin, is incidental to his obsession since Sy has only seen him in photographs. Sy's obsession includes fantasizing about being their favorite "Uncle Sy". He has even been making an extra set of prints for himself of all of their photographs since Jake was a newborn. After an incident at work and after Sy finds out more about the family through a set of photographs, he decides to right the injustices he sees in the only way he knows how. His actions demonstrate his true mental state.
Plot Keywords: clerk, boss, psychopath, guard, child, wife, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: George Matthews is a young man who is having a bittersweet affair with a French divorcée in Los Angeles. Waiting to be drafted, he is unable to commit himself to anything or anybody, including his girlfriend Gloria. While trying to raise money to prevent his car from being repossessed, George is attracted to Lola, a Frenchwoman who works in a "model shop" (an establishment which rents out beautiful pin-up models to photographers). George spends his last twelve dollars to photograph her, and discovers that she is as unhappy as he. Although Lola is unwilling to respond to George, their brief night of lovemaking gives both the will to deal with their respective problems.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: architect, girlfriend, model, photographer, mother, brooding, calm ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk and Melvin soon offers to do a photo spread of her. His boss, however, has no intention of using the photos. Melvin wants to marry Judy, but her father would rather she marry dull and dependable Harry Black. As a last resort, Melvin promises to get Judy's photo on the cover of the next issue of Look, a task easier said than done.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: assistant, actress, heir, father, photographer, chorus girl, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Billy, a struggling young gay photographer (who likes Polaroids), tired of being the "other man", falls in love with Gabriel, a waiter and aspiring musician who is probably straight but possibly gay or at least curious. Billy tries to get Gabriel to model for his latest project, a series of remakes of famous Hollywood screen kisses, featuring male couples, while also trying to win his affections.—Matthew Fillmore <MFillmore@Pensive.Org>
Plot Keywords: photographer, male model, roommate, gay man, drag queen, emotional, tender ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A war photographer returns home to Montréal to discover that his two partners have left him to be together. Alone in the city, he photographs what he sees, trying to heal both his war memories and a broken heart.
Plot Keywords: photojournalist, lover, bisexual, deaf mute, woman, young man, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1958, in New York City, the upper class Diane Arbus is a frustrated and lonely woman with a conventional marriage with two daughters. Her husband is a photographer sponsored by the wealthy parents of Diane, and she works as his assistant. When Lionel Sweeney, a mysterious man with hypertrichosis (a.k.a. werewolf syndrome, a disease that causes excessive body hair), comes to live in the apartment in the upper floor, Diane feels a great attraction for him and is introduced to the world of freaks and marginalized people, falling in love with Lionel.
Plot Keywords: housewife, mother, husband, photographer, mentor, transvestite, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Portrait of an American innocent. In 1955, Bettie Page (1923-2008) waits to testify before a U.S. Senate sub-committee investigating the effects of pornographic material on American adolescents and juveniles. In flashbacks, we see her childhood in Tennessee, a brief marriage, a gang rape, and her going to New York City in 1949. There she takes acting lessons, models for photos, and acts in short films for adults, earning the nickname "The Pin-Up Queen of the Universe". We see her relationship with merchants Irving and Paula Klaw, photographers John Willie and Bunny Yeager, boyfriends, and the public. Through it all, she is wholesome, sporting and forthright - Eve before the fall.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: model, photographer, senator, sister, fascinating, tender, new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Leon Bernstein is New York's best news photographer in 1942, equally at home with cops or crooks. The pictures are often of death and pain, but they are the ones the others wish they had got. Then glamorous Kay Levitz turns to him when the Mob seem to be muscling in on the club she owns due to some arrangement with her late husband. Bernstein, none too successful with women, agrees to help, saying there may be some good photos in it for him. In fact, he is falling in love with Kay.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: photographer, widow, mobster, detective, friend, cool, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Talented photographer Natalie (Kyra Sedgwick) is having financial difficulties in New York City, New York. Her friend and agent Julia (Stockard Channing) finds a two day job in Boston, Massachusetts for twenty thousand dollars, and the reluctant Natalie accepts the work due to her need of money. When she arrives, she finds that she was hired by her arrogant gay brother Roy (Kiefer Sutherland), a successful designer. Natalie has broken the relationship and they have not seen each other for ten years. When she finishes her assignment, Roy asks her to stay one more day for his birthday party, and after that, he tells her that he has A.I.D.S. Natalie stays with him and along his last days, their resentments change to fraternal love.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: photographer, brother, agent, father, doctor, detective, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: governess, scientist, son, daughter, mother, patriarch, solemn ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Suddenly Laura Mars can see through the eyes of a serial killer as he commits his crimes. She contacts the police and with the aid of a police detective, tries to stop the killer. But first, they have to figure out who it is.—Brian W Martz <B.Martz@Genie.com>
Plot Keywords: photographer, beautiful woman, police detective, serial killer, ex-husband, suspenseful, uneasy ...
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