Essay Film Movies
- 1967
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her6.2951967HD
As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children...
- 1973
F for Fake
F for Fake7.4071973HD
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his...
- 2019
Heimat Is a Space in Time
Heimat Is a Space in Time6.92019HD
Director Thomas Heise picks up the biographical pieces left by his family, and composes an epic picture of four generations of his family, of a...
- 2023
Lynch/Oz
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Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to...
- 1972
Vampir Cuadecuc
Vampir Cuadecuc61972HD
An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Franco in 1970; a ghostly narration between fiction...
- 1984
The So-Called Caryatids
The So-Called Caryatids6.21984HD
Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of...
- 1989
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories6.11989HD
A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years...
- 1995
Cremaster 4
Cremaster 461995HD
CREMASTER 4 (1994) adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate episode describes the system's onward rush toward...
- 2024
Exergo
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A young woman who has just started a job at an art museum writes an email to a friend she lived with until recently. The other woman, also young,...
- 2004
Visions of Europe
Visions of Europe4.92004HD
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
- 1989
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story6.51989HD
A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years...
- 2022
The March on Rome
The March on Rome6.42022HD
The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire...
- 1985
Hands Up!
Hands Up!5.7781985HD
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
- 1993
Visit, or Memories and Confessions
Visit, or Memories and Confessions7.51993HD
A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.
- 2016
To Stay Alive: A Method
To Stay Alive: A Method5.42016HD
Iggy Pop reads and recites Michel Houellebecq’s manifesto. The documentary features real people from Houellebecq’s life with the text...
- 2013
Locations: Looking for Rusty James
Locations: Looking for Rusty James32013HD
A personal meditation on Rumble Fish, the legendary film directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1983; the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, where it was...
- 2017
Arcadia
Arcadia7.12017HD
A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey...
- 2017
Obit
Obit6.42017HD
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...
- 1988
Land of Dreams
Land of Dreams71988HD
"Land of Dreams" - When the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he...
- 2000
Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)02000HD
A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to...