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Bus 174 2002
Documentary
On 12 June 2000, in Rio de Janeiro, Ônibus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to kill all the passengers. Transmitted live on all national networks, this shocking and tragic event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the most terrifying examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.
The sides of Bus 174
- A bus held hostage in Rio in 2000
- Live television footage of the standoff
- The life of the young man holding the gun
Good for you if
- you want to understand a real hostage crisis that Brazil watched live.
- you can sit through hours of a standoff that could break at any second.
- you can take a true story with no comfort at the end.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch real footage of a hostage taking that ends in death.
- you can't face a street kid's life of loss, prison and police abuse.
- you won't read subtitles for a film in Portuguese.
About: poverty · police violence · invisibility
The Boy from Medellín 2020
Documentary
Colombian reggaeton singer J Balvin prepares for his 2019 homecoming concert amid intense political turmoil.
The sides of The Boy from Medellín
- J Balvin's homecoming concert in Medellín
- Colombia's 2019 street protests
- A pop star talking about his anxiety and depression
Good for you if
- you like reggaeton and want to see a stadium show come together.
- you want to see a global star go home while his country is in the streets.
- you like a star who talks openly about his mental health.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for the Spanish.
- you want music without politics. Balvin is pressed to take a side on the protests before his show.
About: fame · home · mental health
Cuba and the Cameraman 2017
Documentary
This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected by his policies over the last four decades.
The sides of Cuba and the Cameraman
- An American filmmaker returning to Cuba for decades
- Three Cuban families growing old
- Fidel Castro seen up close
Good for you if
- you want ordinary Cuban lives filmed over more than forty years.
- you like history seen from a farm and a city street.
- you like watching the same people age on camera.
Bad for you if
- you can't take poverty and loss up close.
- you need a story that moves faster than decades of slow change.
About: time · poverty · revolution · family
Waste Land 2010
Documentary
An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.
The sides of Waste Land
- One of the world's largest landfills near Rio
- Pickers of recyclables who become portrait subjects
- The artist Vik Muniz
Good for you if
- you want real people from Jardim Gramacho telling their own lives.
- you like being moved by people seeing their portraits in a museum.
- you like giant portraits made from garbage.
Bad for you if
- you can't take hard stories of poverty and the loss of a child.
- you won't read subtitles for the Portuguese.
About: dignity · art · hope
American Factory 2019
Documentary
In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.
The sides of American Factory
- A Chinese glass company in an old GM plant in Ohio
- American and Chinese workers on the same line
- A vote on whether to join a union
Good for you if
- you want to see real workers in an Ohio plant bought by Fuyao.
- you like watching who holds the power when a union vote looms.
- you like hearing American and Chinese workers tell their own lives on the same line.
Bad for you if
- you need things to happen fast.
- you won't read subtitles for the Mandarin parts.
About: work · culture clash · automation

Isle of Flowers 1989
Documentary
A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.
The sides of Isle of Flowers
- A tomato from a field to a dump
- A narrator explaining everything like a textbook
- People waiting after the pigs for food
Good for you if
- you like a cold, deadpan voice that makes you laugh before it hurts.
- you can take an ending that leaves you with nothing to hold on to.
- you want something that hits hard in thirteen minutes.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles, even for a short film in Portuguese.
- you can't bear to see hunger and poverty on screen.
About: poverty · money · dignity
The Gleaners and I 2000
Documentary
Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off, whether out of necessity or activism.
The sides of The Gleaners and I
- Agnès Varda with a small digital camera
- People picking up what fields and markets leave behind
- Heart shaped potatoes
Good for you if
- you like meeting real people who live off what others throw away.
- you like Varda herself, filming her own hands and her own age.
- you want a gentle, curious film that wanders where it likes.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles to hear Varda and the gleaners talk in French.
- you need momentum. Varda stops to film trucks on the road and a clock with no hands.
About: waste · ageing · what we keep
My Best Fiend 1999
Documentary
A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.
The sides of My Best Fiend
- Werner Herzog remembering Klaus Kinski
- Five films made together, from the jungle of Peru
- Rages on set caught on camera
Good for you if
- you want the true story behind Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo.
- you laugh at a director calmly recalling his plan to kill his star.
- you like two impossible men who could not work apart.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a film partly in German.
- you find footage from the seventies dated.
About: art · obsession · love and hate
Angèle 2021
Documentary
Belgian pop star Angèle reflects on her life and hopes as she finds balance amid the tears, joys and loneliness of fame. Told through her own words.
The sides of Angèle
- A Belgian pop star in her own words
- Concerts, studios and life on tour
- The loneliness that comes with sudden fame
Good for you if
- you like Angèle's songs and want to see them come alive on stage.
- you want to see what fame looks like from the inside.
- you like a quiet portrait of a young woman finding her balance.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles, and Angèle speaks French throughout.
- you need something to happen beyond a singer talking about her life.
About: fame · loneliness · growing up
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind 2018
Documentary
A funny, intimate and heartbreaking portrait of one of the world’s most beloved and inventive comedians, Robin Williams, told largely through his own words. Celebrates what he brought to comedy and to the culture at large, from the wild days of late-1970s L.A. to his death in 2014.
The sides of Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
- Robin Williams in his own words
- Stand-up clips from the late 1970s
- Friends and family remembering him
Good for you if
- you want to laugh again at Robin Williams improvising at full speed.
- you like a portrait that makes you laugh and cry in the same scene.
- you want to hear the man behind Mork and Mrs. Doubtfire talk about himself.
Bad for you if
- you can't face depression and a death by suicide on screen.
- you roll your eyes at loving tributes from famous friends.
About: comedy · mental health · fame
The Mole Agent 2020
Documentary
When a daughter becomes concerned about her mother's well-being in a retirement home, private investigator Romulo hires Sergio, an 83-year-old man who becomes a new resident—and a mole inside the home, who struggles to balance his assignment with becoming increasingly involved in the lives of several residents.
The sides of The Mole Agent
- An 83-year-old man hired as a spy
- A retirement home in Chile
- Residents who become his friends
Good for you if
- you like a gentle, funny film with a kind old man at its center.
- you love Sergio and the women he meets in the home.
- you like being moved by loneliness in old age.
Bad for you if
- you want real spy suspense. Sergio's missions are mostly notes and phone calls.
About: old age · loneliness · kindness
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

Gloria Trevi: Ellas soy yo 2023
Documentary
The sides of Gloria Trevi: Ellas soy yo
- The life of Mexican singer Gloria Trevi
- Fame in Mexican pop
- A scandal that reached the courts
Good for you if
- you want the true story behind a Mexican pop star.
- you want to hear Gloria Trevi's hits along the way.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a story of abuse and control around a young singer.
About: fame · abuse of power · resilience
Dulceida: a new beginning 2022
Documentary
In this documentary of more than a year of follow-up, we discover what's behind her work and get to know the most personal side of the influencer. Aida is going through a major personal crisis and for the first time in her 14 years of profession she leaves social networks. In parallel, we also follow one of the most important professional actions of her life.
The sides of Dulceida: a new beginning
- The Spanish influencer Dulceida
- A year away from social networks
- A personal crisis on camera
Good for you if
- you like seeing the life behind an influencer's feed.
- you want a close portrait of one person in a hard year.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at public figures opening up on camera.
About: fame · privacy · starting over
Generation Wealth 2018
Documentary
Over the past 25 years, Lauren Greenfield's documentary photography and film projects have explored youth culture, gender, body image, and affluence. Underscoring the ever-increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots, portraits reveal a focus on cultivating image over substance, where subjects unable to attain actual wealth instead settle for its trappings, no matter their ability to pay for it.
The sides of Generation Wealth
- Twenty-five years of Lauren Greenfield's photos
- People chasing the look of wealth
- The photographer's own family
Good for you if
- you want real people telling how money took over their lives.
- you like questioning what money and status do to us.
- you like a filmmaker who also looks at money in her own family.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch debt, addiction and broken families on screen.
- you lose track when a film jumps between dozens of people over 25 years.
About: money · image · excess

Maluma: What I Was, What I Am, What I Will Be 2019
Documentary
Intimate interviews, sold out concerts and archive footage that narrates the path to success of the Colombian singer and songwriter Maluma.
The sides of Maluma: What I Was, What I Am, What I Will Be
- A Colombian singer's rise to fame
- Sold-out concerts
- Archive footage of his early years
Good for you if
- you like reggaeton and want to see it on a big stage.
- you want to hear Maluma tell his own story.
- you like a star who keeps his family close through the fame.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at a star's heartfelt self-portrait.
About: fame · ambition · family
Listen to Me Marlon 2015
Documentary
With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen with Brando himself as your guide, the film will fully explore the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon's perspective, entirely in his own voice. No talking heads, no interviewees, just Brando on Brando and life.
The sides of Listen to Me Marlon
- Marlon Brando's private audio tapes
- A digital head of Brando speaking
- His life told in his own voice
Good for you if
- you like hearing Marlon Brando tell his own life, with no interviews.
- you like a portrait of a troubled man beyond his famous roles.
- you love clips of A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront.
Bad for you if
- you need a story that moves, not a voice over archives.
- you can't take the family tragedies that marked his later life.
About: fame · acting · solitude
Rubius X 2022
Documentary
On the 10th anniversary of the publication of his first video on the Internet, "Rubius X" is a documentary that deals with the origin, motivation and secrets behind Rubius, one of the most followed Spanish content creators in the world. A review of the history of a pioneer, the icon of a whole generation, who represents like few others the revolution of the new digital media.
The sides of Rubius X
- A Spanish YouTuber looking back on ten years online
- How a bedroom channel became a career
- Life behind the camera of a famous streamer
Good for you if
- you grew up watching Rubius and want his story.
- you want to see the person behind the online persona.
- you'd rather keep it short. Rubius's ten years online fit in 76 minutes.
Bad for you if
- you want a documentary with high stakes and suspense.
About: fame · the internet · growing up
Anelka: Misunderstood 2020
Documentary
Bad boy or football genius? Famed French footballer Nicolas Anelka's controversial legacy is examined in an unflinching documentary.
The sides of Anelka: Misunderstood
- Nicolas Anelka telling his own story
- A career across Europe's big clubs
- The 2010 World Cup scandal
Good for you if
- you want to hear Anelka's side of the story.
- you're curious about a footballer often called a bad boy.
Bad for you if
- you won't watch a documentary in French with subtitles.
- you have no interest in football.
About: reputation · pride · misunderstanding
Chespirito: Not Really on Purpose 2025
Series
Miniseries that follow the life and career of Mexican actor, comedian and producer Roberto Gómez Bolaños, known for being the creator of El Chavo del 8, El Chapulín Colorado and Chespirito.
The sides of Chespirito: Not Really on Purpose
- The life of Roberto Gómez Bolaños
- The making of El Chavo del 8
- Mexican television from the inside
Good for you if
- you grew up with El Chavo and want to know the man who wrote it.
- you like decades of Mexican television history.
- you like a marriage tested by a love affair born on a television set.
Bad for you if
- you want the jokes of El Chavo more than the life behind them.
About: fame · creation · love