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Shoah 1985
Documentary
Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.
The sides of Shoah
- Survivors, bystanders and perpetrators interviewed
- The sites of the camps filmed decades later
- No archive footage at all
Good for you if
- you want the Holocaust told by those who were there.
- you can sit with long silences and slow train journeys.
- you can be moved to tears by a barber breaking down as he recalls Treblinka.
Bad for you if
- you can't give more than nine hours to one film.
- you won't read subtitles, and the film moves between many languages.
- you can't hear first-hand accounts of mass murder.
About: memory · testimony · genocide
Into the Abyss 2011
Documentary
We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue with Death Row inmates, asks questions about life and death and looks deep into these individuals, their stories, their crimes.
The sides of Into the Abyss
- Werner Herzog talking to a man days before his execution
- A triple murder in a small Texas town
- Families of the victims and of the killers
Good for you if
- you like Herzog's quiet questions and the long answers they get.
- you can take a film about death with no easy comfort.
- you want to hear everyone touched by one crime, on every side.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit through grieving families and a death row countdown.
- you need momentum more than long, still interviews.
About: the death penalty · loss · guilt
Night on the Galactic Railroad 1985
Anime
Lonely and awkward, Giovanni struggles with his sick mother, absent father, and an afterschool job that isolates him from his peers. But on the night of the Festival of Stars, he is magically transported onto a celestial train with his only friend, Campanella. Together, they embark on an extraordinary journey through the galaxy, encountering mysterious characters and grappling with life's deepest questions.
The sides of Night on the Galactic Railroad
- A lonely boy drawn as a cat
- A train through the stars
- A last journey with his only friend
Good for you if
- you like a quiet train ride through the Milky Way.
- you like a patient, dreamlike pace with long silences.
- you like a gentle story that leaves you crying over a friendship.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch animated films.
- you can't take a children's film about death and grief.
About: friendship · death · loneliness · sacrifice
One More Time with Feeling 2016
Documentary
Andrew Dominik's One More Time With Feeling is a remarkable black and white documentary which chronicles the creation of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' album Skeleton Tree. Originally a performance based concept, the film evolved into something much more significant as Dominik delved into the tragic backdrop of the writing and recording of the album. The result is stark, fragile and raw, and a true testament to an artist trying to find his way through the darkness. It documents the writing, recording and performing of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ sixteenth studio album, Skeleton Tree.
The sides of One More Time with Feeling
- Nick Cave recording an album after losing his son
- A studio filmed in black and white
- A family living with grief
Good for you if
- you like watching songs take shape in the studio.
- you like a film that sits quietly with real grief.
- you like stark black and white images.
Bad for you if
- a parent's grief is too much for you.
- you need some hope by the end.
About: grief · creation · fatherhood
Nostalgia for the Light 2010
Documentary
In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime.
The sides of Nostalgia for the Light
- Astronomers in Chile's Atacama Desert
- Women searching the sand for their dead
- Pinochet's political prisoners
Good for you if
- you like looking at the stars and thinking about where we come from.
- you like a quiet, patient film that leaves room to think.
- you want to understand how Chile lives with the Pinochet years.
Bad for you if
- you can't face mothers still searching for the remains of their children.
About: memory · grief · the cosmos · justice
The Leftovers 2014
Series
When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. This is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.
The sides of The Leftovers
- Two percent of the world vanishing at once
- A police chief holding his family together
- A silent cult dressed in white
Good for you if
- you like grief so raw it moves you to tears.
- you can live with never learning where the vanished went.
- you like Kevin and Nora, two broken people trying to go on.
Bad for you if
- you can't take grief, suicide and despair on screen.
- you need a story that moves fast, not three seasons of mourning.
About: grief · faith · loss
The Look of Silence 2014
Documentary
An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the "Communist" purge occurred in 1965. His remaining family members lived in fear and silence until the making of this documentary. Adi, a brother of his, decided to revisit the horrific incident and visited the men who were responsible for the killings and one survivor of the purge. These meetings uncovered sadistic details of the murders and exposed raw emotions and reactions of the killers' family members about what happened in the past - much to Adi's disappointment.
The sides of The Look of Silence
- A man facing those who killed his brother
- Eye tests as a way into conversations
- Indonesia's 1965 killings
Good for you if
- you want to see a family ask the questions it was never allowed to ask.
- you want to understand a mass killing that is rarely talked about.
- you like quiet, patient conversations that say a lot.
Bad for you if
- you can't bear to hear killers calmly describe what they did.
- you won't read subtitles for a film in Indonesian.
About: guilt · memory · justice · grief
The Virgin Suicides 2000
Film
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
The sides of The Virgin Suicides
- Five sisters kept at home by strict parents
- Neighbourhood boys who watch them from afar
- A Michigan suburb in the 1970s
Good for you if
- you like Sofia Coppola's hazy, sunlit images of 1970s suburbia.
- you like a dreamy soundtrack by Air.
- you're fine with never fully knowing why.
Bad for you if
- you can't face teen suicide on screen.
- you need a plot that moves rather than a mood.
About: adolescence · memory · isolation
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin 2024
Documentary
The secret life of a young World of Warcraft gamer is vividly reimagined when his online friends contact his family after his death.
The sides of The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
- A young man with a muscle wasting disease
- His life online in World of Warcraft
- Parents discovering his friends after his death
Good for you if
- you're ready to cry over a life that was richer than his parents knew.
- you believe friends made online can be real friends.
- you want a true story pieced together from his game logs and chat messages.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a Norwegian film.
- you can't face a young man's illness and death.
About: friendship · disability · grief
Lessons of Darkness 1992
Documentary
Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.
The sides of Lessons of Darkness
- Kuwait's oil fields burning after the Gulf War
- Firefighters capping the wells
- Werner Herzog filming Earth like another planet
Good for you if
- you like burning oil fields filmed like an alien world.
- you like images carried by Wagner and Verdi.
- you like Werner Herzog's strange, poetic way of seeing.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum. Long shots of burning wells glide by with barely a word.
- you want things explained. Herzog never lays out the war and narrates it like science fiction.
About: war · apocalypse · landscape
Naqoyqatsi 2002
Documentary
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
The sides of Naqoyqatsi
- A wordless montage of a digital world
- A Philip Glass score with Yo-Yo Ma's cello
- Archive images reworked by computers
Good for you if
- you like letting images wash over you for an hour and a half.
- you like a Philip Glass score carrying a whole film.
- you like the third Qatsi film's strange computer-made imagery.
Bad for you if
- you need a story that moves forward.
- you want people talking, and nobody speaks here.
About: technology · violence · modern life

The House Is Black 1963
Documentary
Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness," of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.
The sides of The House Is Black
- A leper colony in northern Iran
- Poetry read over the images
- Children at school in the colony
Good for you if
- you like black and white images that stay with you.
- you have twenty minutes, not two hours.
- you want to see real lives most people never look at.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not see illness and disfigurement up close.
- you find black and white films from the sixties dated.
- you won't read subtitles over Persian poetry.
About: suffering · faith · dignity
Bridegroom 2013
Documentary
A documentary that tells the emotional journey of Shane and Tom, two young men in a loving and committed relationship — a relationship that was cut tragically short by a misstep off the side of a roof.
The sides of Bridegroom
- Shane and Tom, a young couple in love
- A fatal fall from a roof
- A partner with no rights after a death
Good for you if
- you like a film that leaves you crying for a real couple.
- you want to see Shane and Tom's love story through their own videos.
- you want to understand what losing a partner meant without marriage rights.
Bad for you if
- you can't take grief on screen, and Tom's loss is the heart of it.
- you'd rather not watch a film that speaks up openly for a cause.
About: grief · love · marriage equality · family rejection
The Elephant Man 1980
Film
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity.
The sides of The Elephant Man
- A disfigured man shown as a sideshow freak
- A surgeon played by Anthony Hopkins
- Victorian London in black and white
Good for you if
- you like being moved by John Merrick's gentleness.
- you like John Hurt under heavy makeup, acting with his voice and eyes.
- you love David Lynch's black and white images.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a man mocked and beaten for how he looks.
- you need an ending that doesn't break your heart.
About: dignity · cruelty · kindness
Melancholia 2011
Film
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
The sides of Melancholia
- A wedding that falls apart
- Two sisters at a country mansion
- A planet heading for Earth
Good for you if
- you can take a film that looks the end of the world in the face.
- you like the slow-motion opening images set to Wagner.
- you like long, quiet scenes waiting for the sky to change.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch someone sink into depression.
- you came for a disaster film with things exploding.
About: depression · sisterhood · the end of the world
Gates of Heaven 1978
Documentary
A showcase of workers in the animal burial industry while dealing with heavier existential questions regarding mortality and the afterlife. Floyd 'Mac' McClure believes that a graceful burial is as important for pets as it is for people; he chronicles his struggles to keep his niche business afloat, and interviews several of his associates and one of his competitors, the manager of a rendering plant.
The sides of Gates of Heaven
- A man who believed pets deserve graceful burials
- Two pet cemeteries in California
- A rendering plant manager
Good for you if
- you like the true story of a small pet cemetery business fighting to stay afloat.
- you can laugh and wince at grief over dead pets at the same time.
- you like Errol Morris letting ordinary people talk until they reveal themselves.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum and not long talking heads.
- you find 1970s documentary footage dated.
About: mortality · the afterlife · grief
The Midnight Gospel 2020
Series
Traversing trippy worlds inside his universe simulator, Clancy the space caster explores existential questions about life, death and everything in between.
The sides of The Midnight Gospel
- A space caster interviewing people in dying worlds
- Real podcast conversations about death and meditation
- A last talk between a son and his mother
Good for you if
- you like psychedelic worlds where anything can melt or explode.
- you like long, calm conversations about life and death.
- you like being moved, and the last talk between Clancy and his mother can bring tears.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch animated series.
- you need a plot that moves, and Clancy mostly talks while worlds end around him.
About: death · acceptance · meditation
Tupac: Resurrection 2003
Documentary
Home movies, photographs, and recited poetry illustrate the life of Tupac Shakur, one of the most beloved, revolutionary, and volatile hip-hop MCs of all time.
The sides of Tupac: Resurrection
- Tupac Shakur telling his own life
- Home movies, photos and his poems
- A rapper's rise and his death at 25
Good for you if
- you want Tupac's life in his own voice, from his own interviews.
- you love 90s hip-hop and the man behind its biggest songs.
- you like a portrait full of contradictions: poet, rebel, son.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not relive a young life cut short by gunfire.
- you want an inquiry into who killed him. The film is about his life, not the case.
About: fame · violence · mothers and sons
Apocalypse Now 1979
Película
Durante la guerra de Vietnam, al joven Capitán Willard, un oficial de los servicios de inteligencia del ejército estadounidense, se le ha encomendado entrar en Camboya con la peligrosa misión de eliminar a Kurtz, un coronel renegado que se ha vuelto loco. El capitán deberá ir navegar por el río hasta el corazón de la selva, donde parece ser que Kurtz reina como un buda despótico sobre los miembros de la tribu Montagnard, que le adoran como a un dios.
Las caras de Apocalypse Now
- Un capitán enviado río arriba a matar a un coronel
- Helicópteros y Wagner
- Una selva que vuelve locos a los hombres
Buena para ti si
- te gustan las imágenes de guerra que parecen un delirio febril.
- te gusta un viaje hacia la oscuridad.
- te gustan The Doors y Wagner sobre una selva en llamas.
Mala para ti si
- dos horas y media de lento descenso son demasiado para ti.
- no aguantas mucha locura esta noche. Soldados drogados con ácido y hombres que pierden la razón llenan el viaje río arriba.
- las escenas de guerra brutales son demasiado para ti.
Temas: la locura · la guerra · la moral
Chernobyl 2019
Serie
En Abril de 1986, la Central Nuclear de Chernóbil en Ucrania (en aquel entonces, la Unión Soviética), sufrió una explosión masiva que liberó material radioactivo en Bielorrusia, Rusia, Ucrania, así como en zonas de Escandinavia y Europa Central. La serie relata lo que aconteció en 1986, en uno de los mayores desastres provocados por el hombre en la historia reciente, así como los sacrificios realizados para salvar al continente de un desastre sin precedentes.
Las caras de Chernobyl
- La noche en que explotó un reactor
- Científicos contra las mentiras de un Estado
- Hombres enviados al tejado
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una angustia que nunca suelta.
- quieres entender un desastre real.
- puedes con una historia sombría y sin adornos.
Mala para ti si
- la enfermedad por radiación mostrada con detalle es demasiado dura para ti.
- no soportas ver animales abatidos a tiros. Los soldados limpian la zona de las mascotas abandonadas.
Temas: la verdad · el sacrificio · la mentira