The Lovely Month of May (1963), My Life to Live (1962), This So-Called Disaster (2003), F for Fake (1973), Paris Is Burning (1990), Honeyland (2019), When We Were Kings (1996), Burden of Dreams (1982) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Cinéma Vérité movies.
Storyline: Peter Gimbel and a team of photographers set out on an expedition to find and Film, for the very first time, Carcharodon carcharias....The Great White Shark. The Expedition took over nine months and traveled from Durban, South Africa, across the Indian Ocean and finally to South Australia.—Alex "The Sharkman" Buttigieg <sharkman@sharkmans-world.com>
Plot Keywords: documentary, nature, ocean, wildlife, adventure, exploration, marine life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Director Rahul Jain presents an intimate, observantly portrayal of the rhythm of life and work in a gigantic textile factory in Gujarat, India. Moving through the corridors and bowels of the enormous and disorientating structure, the camera takes the viewer on a journey to a place of dehumanising physical labor and intense hardship, provoking cause for thought about persistent pre-industrial working conditions and the huge divide between first world and developing countries. Since the 1960s the area of Sachin in western India has undergone unprecedented, unregulated industrialisation, exemplified in its numerous textile factories. MACHINES portraits only one of these factories, while at the same time representing the thousands of labourers working, living and suffering in an environment they can't escape without unity. With strong visual language, memorable images and carefully selected interviews of the workers themselves, Jain tells a story of inequality and oppression, humans and machines.
Plot Keywords: documentary, india, social issues, exploitation, poverty, human rights, globalization ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Part documentary, part narrative fiction, part home movie, and part acid trip. A psychedelic whirlwind of snapshots, Super-8 home movies, old answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, snippets of '80s pop culture, and dramatic reenactments to create an epic portrait of an American family travesty. The story begins in 2003 when Jonathan learns that his schizophrenic mother, Renee, has overdosed on her lithium medication. He is catapulted back into his real and horrifying family legacy of rape, abandonment, promiscuity, drug addiction, child abuse, and psychosis. As he grows up on camera, he finds the escapist balm of musical theater and B horror flicks and reconnects to life through a queer chosen family. Then a look into the future shows Jonathan as he confronts the symbiotic and almost unbearable love he shares with his beautiful and tragically damaged mother.—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: documentary, autobiographical, experimental, lgbtq+, mental health, personal journey, low budget ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the slum of Cité Soleil, President Aristide's most loyal supporters were ruling as kings. The five major gang leaders were controlling heavily armed young men; the Chiméres. The Secret army of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. "Ghosts of Cité Soleil" is a film about Billy and Haitian 2pac. Two brothers. Gang Leaders of the Chiméres.—Asger Leth
Plot Keywords: documentary, gang, violence, social issues, true story, street life, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family". However, instead of remaining unobtrusive and letting the family be themselves, he can't keep himself from trying to control every facet of their lives "for the good of the show".—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: mockumentary, comedy, satire, 1970s, american film, directorial debut, media satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Carmen is a member of a terrorist gang who falls in love with a young police officer guarding a bank that she and her cohorts try to rob. She leads him on while dragging the two of them closer to their ultimate doom. Jean-Luc Godard intercuts the film with shots of a string quartet practicing Beethoven, and his main protagonist, Carmen, is played by Maruschka Detmers creating a stunning effect in many scenes of extended nudity.—Raimundo Ramirez <raimundo@kheldar.com>
Plot Keywords: crime, romance, drama, french film, experimental film, film noir, music ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary on seniors at a high school in a small Indiana town and their various cliques.
Plot Keywords: documentary, teen, high school, coming of age, american, adolescent, real life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Chain Camera is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Kirby Dick about the lives of Los Angeles high school students.
Plot Keywords: documentary, american film, youth, high school life, verité, social observation, education ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After the India of Varanasi's boatmen, the American desert of the dropouts, and the Mexico of the narco-assassin, Gianfranco Rosi've Decided to tell the tale of a part of his own country, roaming and filming for over two years in a minivan on Rome's giant ring road, the GRA, or GRA-to discover the invisible worlds and possible futures harbored in this area of constant turmoil. Elusive characters and fleeting apparitions emerge from the background of this winding zone.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, italy, everyday life, social observation, cinéma vérité, portrait, modern life ...
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