Promises (2001), The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2004), Vote for Me (2003), Rear Window (1954), A Man Escaped (1956), The Elephant in the Living Room (2010), The Lions Are Free (1969), Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye (2003) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Observation movies.
Storyline: Rather than focusing on political events, the seven children featured in "Promises" offer a compelling human portrait of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict. The film draws viewers into the hearts and minds of Jerusalem's children by giving voice to those captured by the region's hatreds as well as those able to transcend them. Audiences will engage with Palestinian and Israeli kids, coming to know them as multi-dimensional people, not as stereotypes perpetuated by the mainstream media.
Plot Keywords: documentary, conflict, children, peace, war, jewish, dialogue ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A homeless musician's life is transformed after he discovers a flock of wild South American parrots living in San Francisco. How they got there is a mystery, but Mark Bittner forms a bond with the exotic birds through his music and his patient, attentive care. Over time he comes to appreciate their individual identities and makes a case for humans to reevaluate their relationship to animals. When he is forced to leave them, he despairs over the birds' fate.
Plot Keywords: documentary, nature, birds, san francisco, wildlife, environmental, human-animal bond ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Vote For Me! is a political comedy set in East Harlem: the story of a 70-year old Puerto Rican super who runs for Congress and wins.
Plot Keywords: politics, election, documentary, china, democracy, society, culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jefferies breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend Lisa Freemont and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate.
Plot Keywords: suspense, thriller, crime, romance, drama, film noir, detective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Captured French Resistance fighter Lieutenant Fontaine awaits a certain death sentence for espionage in a stark Nazi prison in Lyon, France. Facing malnourishment and paralyzing fear, he must plot an extraordinary escape, complicated by the questions of whom to trust, and what lies beyond the small portion of the prison they are housed in.
Plot Keywords: prison, escape, world war ii, nazis, france, resistance, prisoner ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While wild animals are mere subjects of fascination for many, some in the United States take the step of bringing them into their homes. This documentary explores the trend of individuals keeping exotic animals as pets and the problems that surround the issue. Among those interviewed are Tim Harrison, an expert on dealing with dangerous pets that have escaped or can't be controlled by their owners, and Terry Brumfield, a troubled man who finds solace in his relationship with his two pet lions.
Plot Keywords: documentary, animals, social issue, wildlife, family, conflict, responsibility ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The true life sequel to the movie classic "Born Free". The actors from the film, Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, with the help of their friend, legendary conservationist George Adamson, reveal what became of the lions used in the filming of "Born Free". While Virginia McKenna visits a zoo in Great Britian, her husband Bill Travers travels to a remote area of East Africa to visit George Adamson and to reunite with the lions he starred with in the movie and who are living free thanks to George Adamson. A remarkable reunion is filmed just as it happens.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, wildlife, africa, nature, animal behavior, freedom, conservation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmed only a few years before his death, this documentary focuses on the career of Henri Cartier-Bresson, a frustrated painter who became a world-renowned photographer. As he reviews his portfolio of iconic images and notable figures, the notoriously press-shy Cartier-Bresson offers insights into his legendary career, which covered everything from Gandhi's funeral to the fall of China. Interviews with historians and colleagues explore the powerful impact of his globetrotting work.
Plot Keywords: documentary, photography, biography, art, france, director, filmmaking ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer's block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected. After returning to Europe, the innocent friendship between Winter and Alice grows as they travel together through various European cities on a quest for Alice's grandmother.—Karl Engel <cassiel@ix.netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: road movie, loneliness, travel, alienation, father-daughter relationship, american culture, childhood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Chronicles a man who is obsessively interested in only one thing,the pictures he takes that document the way people dress. The 80-year-old New York Times photographer has two columns in the paper's Style section, yet nobody knows who he is.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, fashion, photography, new york, biography, culture, art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching.—Will Gilbert
Plot Keywords: nature, documentary, ecology, french film, cinematography, biodiversity, science ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jong-su bumps into a girl who used to live in the same neighborhood, who asks him to look after her cat while she's on a trip to Africa. When back, she introduces Ben, a mysterious guy she met there, who confesses his secret hobby.
Plot Keywords: mystery, drama, psychological, adaptation, class conflict, loneliness, existentialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. Then he meets a mysterious beauty, and also notices something frightfully suspicious on one of his photographs of her taken in a park. The fact that he may have photographed a murder does not occur to him until he studies and then blows up his negatives, uncovering details, blowing up smaller and smaller elements, and finally putting the puzzle together.
Plot Keywords: mystery, psychological thriller, art film, existentialism, realism, surrealism, photography ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington's year dug in with the Second Platoon in one of Afghanistan's most strategically crucial valleys reveals extraordinary insight into the surreal combination of back breaking labor, deadly firefights, and camaraderie as the soldiers painfully push back the Taliban.—Sundance Film Festival
Plot Keywords: war, documentary, frontline, soldiers, combat, military, danger ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 1798. In a forest, some countrymen catch a wild child who can not walk, speak, read nor write. Doctor Itard is interested by the child, and starts to educate him. Everybody thinks he will fail, but with a lot of love and patience, he manages to obtain results and the child continues with normal development. This is based on true story.—Yepok
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, historical, true story, french film, isolation, social outcast ...
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