Saltar al contenido principal

¿Qué quieres ver esta noche?

Cada título dice para quién es bueno y para quién no. Toca lo que quieres esta noche, o di que no a uno y por qué.

Lo más cercano a Grey Gardens primero

  1. The Wolfpack 2015

    Documentary

    Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world through the films that they watch. Nicknamed ‘The Wolfpack’, the brothers spend their childhood reenacting their favorite films using elaborate home-made props and costumes. Their world is shaken up when one of the brothers escapes and everything changes.

    The sides of The Wolfpack

    • Six brothers raised inside a Manhattan apartment
    • Home-made remakes of Reservoir Dogs and The Dark Knight
    • A first walk outside without their father

    Good for you if

    • you like a true story stranger than most fiction.
    • you like six brothers who share everything in a few rooms.
    • you like the Angulo brothers remaking Tarantino with cardboard props.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't face a father who kept his children locked away.
    • you want every question about the family answered.

    About: confinement · cinema · freedom · brotherhood

    Explora sus caras
  2. 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

    Explora sus caras
  3. Time 2020

    Documentary

    Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together while fighting for the release of her incarcerated husband. An intimate, epic, and unconventional love story, filmed over two decades.

    The sides of Time

    • A wife fighting for her husband's release
    • Home videos filmed over two decades
    • Six sons growing up without their father at home

    Good for you if

    • you want a true story about a family and the prison system.
    • you like Fox Rich holding her family together for twenty years.
    • you like black and white images that make home videos feel like memory.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum more than a patient portrait.
    • you find black and white hard to sit through.

    About: waiting · love · justice

    Explora sus caras
  4. Honeyland 2019

    Documentary

    When nomadic beekeepers break Honeyland’s basic rule (take half of the honey, but leave half to the bees), the last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and restore natural balance.

    The sides of Honeyland

    • Hatidze, a wild beekeeper in North Macedonia
    • Her old, bedridden mother
    • A nomadic family moving in next door

    Good for you if

    • you like bees, rocks and light in a remote Balkan valley.
    • you like a real life filmed over three years, with no narrator.
    • you're moved by Hatidze caring for her mother alone.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles.
    • you need momentum. The film follows the bees season by season.

    About: balance · solitude · greed

    Explora sus caras
  5. Stories We Tell 2012

    Documentary

    Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending on their implication in the events, which are remembered in different ways; so a trail of questions remains to be answered, because memory is always changing and the discovery of truth often depends on who is telling the tale.

    The sides of Stories We Tell

    • Sarah Polley questioning her own family
    • A mother who died when Sarah was young
    • Home movies, some of them restaged

    Good for you if

    • you like siblings and fathers each telling a mother's story their own way.
    • you like a film that keeps changing what you thought was true.
    • you can be moved by a daughter looking for her mother's secret.

    Bad for you if

    • you need things to happen, and this is people remembering.
    • you want one clear version of the truth at the end.

    About: memory · truth · family secrets

    Explora sus caras
  6. Crumb 1995

    Documentary

    This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin', Fritz the Cat, and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix. Through interviews with his mother, two brothers, wife, ex-wife and ex-girlfriends, as well as selections from his vast quantity of graphic art, we are treated to a darkly comic ride through one man's subconscious mind.

    The sides of Crumb

    • The cartoonist Robert Crumb at home and on the street
    • His two troubled brothers
    • Underground comics from the sixties

    Good for you if

    • you like a portrait of an artist that doesn't look away from his obsessions.
    • you can laugh at a family this strange and this sad.
    • you're drawn to the odd corners of sixties counterculture.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not see Crumb's sexual drawings up close.
    • you can't take mental illness and a family falling apart on screen.

    About: art · brothers · obsession · the family

    Explora sus caras
  7. 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

    Explora sus caras
  8. Dark Days 2000

    Documentary

    A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.

    The sides of Dark Days

    • People living in the train tunnels under New York
    • Shacks built in the dark beside the tracks
    • A crew made up of the tunnel residents

    Good for you if

    • you want to see how people really lived under Manhattan.
    • you like hearing people tell their own lives with humour and honesty.
    • you like a DJ Shadow score under grainy images.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch addiction and poverty up close.
    • you find grainy black and white footage hard to watch.

    About: homelessness · dignity · community

    Explora sus caras
  9. Four Daughters 2023

    Documentary

    Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters' life stories. An intimate journey of hope, rebellion, violence, transmission and sisterhood that will question the very foundations of our societies.

    The sides of Four Daughters

    • A Tunisian mother and her four daughters
    • Two daughters who left home and never came back
    • Actresses standing in for the missing

    Good for you if

    • you like a story about mothers and daughters told without hiding the hard parts.
    • you want a true story told by the family who lived it.
    • you want to be moved to tears by two sisters facing the actresses who play their missing sisters.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles for a film in Arabic.
    • you can't watch a family talk about abuse, violence and radicalisation.

    About: motherhood · sisterhood · radicalisation · memory

    Explora sus caras
  10. El irlandés 2019

    Película

    Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, un veterano de guerra de origen irlandés que trabaja como camionero, conoce accidentalmente al mafioso Russell Bufalino. Una vez convertido en su hombre de confianza, Bufalino envía a Frank a Chicago con el encargo de ayudar a Jimmy Hoffa, un poderoso líder sindical relacionado con el crimen organizado, con quien Frank mantendrá una estrecha amistad durante casi veinte años.

    Las caras de El irlandés

    • Un sicario que recuerda desde un asilo
    • Jimmy Hoffa
    • Décadas de mafia

    Buena para ti si

    • te gusta una historia de gánsteres lenta y reflexiva.
    • te gustan las leyendas actuando juntas una última vez.
    • te gusta un final sobre la soledad y el arrepentimiento.

    Mala para ti si

    • tres horas y media te parecen demasiado.
    • quieres una película de gánsteres rápida.

    Temas: la lealtad · envejecer · el arrepentimiento

    Explora sus caras
  11. The Act 2019

    Serie

    The Act se centra en Gypsy Blanchard, una niña que intenta escapar de la relación tóxica que tiene con su madre sobreprotectora, Dee Dee. Su búsqueda de la independencia acaba abriendo la caja de Pandora, lo que al final resulta en un asesinato.

    Las caras de The Act

    • La historia real de Gypsy Rose Blanchard
    • Una madre que mantuvo enferma a su hija
    • Un asesinato en Misuri

    Buena para ti si

    • quieres entender un crimen real desde dentro de la casa.
    • te gustan Joey King y Patricia Arquette en una historia de madre e hija.
    • te gusta la angustia que crece hacia algo que sabes que va a pasar.

    Mala para ti si

    • no soportas el maltrato infantil ni la crueldad médica en pantalla.
    • necesitas esperanza, y la vida de Gypsy es una jaula que se va cerrando.

    Temas: el control · el abuso · la libertad · la maternidad

    Explora sus caras
  12. Mula 2018

    Película

    Earl Stone siempre ha antepuesto su trabajo a la familia. Ahora, ya octogenario y a punto de que su negocio de floricultura sea embargado, le surge una oportunidad de salir adelante con un trabajo aparentemente fácil: solo requiere conducir.

    Las caras de Mula

    • Un florista arruinado de más de ochenta años
    • Entregas de droga para un cártel mexicano
    • Un agente de la DEA que se acerca

    Buena para ti si

    • te gusta Clint Eastwood como un anciano que encanta a todo el que conoce.
    • te gusta la historia real de un veterano que se convirtió en transportista de droga.
    • te gusta un hombre que intenta compensar años lejos de su familia.

    Mala para ti si

    • esperas tiroteos y persecuciones de una historia de cárteles.
    • no puedes apoyar a un hombre que transporta cocaína para un cártel.

    Temas: el arrepentimiento · la familia · la vejez

    Explora sus caras
  13. Dick Johnson Is Dead 2020

    Documentary

    With this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilizing moviemaking magic and her family’s dark humor, she celebrates Dr. Dick Johnson’s last years by staging fantasies of death and beyond. Together, dad and daughter confront the great inevitability awaiting us all.

    The sides of Dick Johnson Is Dead

    • A daughter filming her father's last years
    • Staged deaths with stunt doubles
    • A father living with dementia

    Good for you if

    • you can laugh at a daughter staging her father's death again and again.
    • you want to be moved by a father and daughter saying goodbye.
    • you like a close, playful bond between a father and his daughter.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a parent's memory fade right now.
    • you'd rather a documentary stay plain, without staged scenes of heaven.

    About: death · memory · father and daughter

    Explora sus caras
  14. 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

    Explora sus caras
  15. Louie 2010

    Series

    Louis C.K. stars as a fictionalized version of himself; a comedian and newly divorced father raising his two daughters in New York City.

    The sides of Louie

    • A divorced comedian raising two daughters
    • Stand-up sets in New York clubs
    • Episodes that drift into the absurd

    Good for you if

    • you like laughing at loneliness, aging and awkward dates.
    • you like a comedy that turns absurd without warning.
    • you like a portrait of one tired man more than a plot.

    Bad for you if

    • you want a comedy that leaves you feeling good.
    • you need momentum. Louie lets long, awkward silences hang and scenes wander.

    About: fatherhood · loneliness · divorce

    Explora sus caras
  16. Hoop Dreams 1994

    Documentary

    Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominately white suburban school well-known for the excellence of its basketball program. Gates and Agee dream of NBA stardom, and with the support of their close-knit families, they battle the social and physical obstacles that stand in their way. This acclaimed documentary was shot over the course of five years.

    The sides of Hoop Dreams

    • Two Chicago teenagers dreaming of the NBA
    • A long daily commute to a suburban basketball school
    • Five years of their families' lives

    Good for you if

    • you like basketball as the dream that holds a family together.
    • you want real lives followed over five years, with no script.
    • you're moved by parents who sacrifice everything for their sons.

    Bad for you if

    • nearly three hours is too much for you in one sitting.
    • you need a story that moves faster than real life.

    About: ambition · poverty · family · race

    Explora sus caras
  17. Minding the Gap 2018

    Documentary

    Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship.

    The sides of Minding the Gap

    • Skateboarders filming each other in Rockford, Illinois
    • A director turning the camera on his own family
    • A young father struggling with his temper

    Good for you if

    • you like a friendship followed over more than a decade of skate footage.
    • you want to watch boys become men, with all the mistakes that brings.
    • you like a documentary where the filmmaker is part of the story.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch frank talk about domestic abuse and violent fathers.
    • you came for skateboarding tricks and need more of them.

    About: growing up · domestic violence · friendship · fatherhood

    Explora sus caras
  18. 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

    Explora sus caras
  19. One of Us 2017

    Documentary

    Penetrating the insular world of New York's Hasidic community, focusing on three individuals driven to break away despite threats of retaliation.

    The sides of One of Us

    • Three people leaving a Hasidic community in New York
    • A mother fighting to keep her children
    • A closed world seen from the inside

    Good for you if

    • you want real people telling what leaving cost them.
    • you like following three lives over time, up close.
    • you want to follow a mother fighting her own community to keep her children.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take stories of abuse and addiction.
    • you want a hopeful story with a clean ending.

    About: freedom · faith · belonging · family

    Explora sus caras
  20. Storyteller and Conceptual Magician Derek DelGaudio attempts to understand the illusory nature of identity and answer the deceptively simple question 'Who am I?'

    The sides of Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself

    • A magician alone on a small stage
    • Audience members choosing who they are
    • Card tricks that turn into confessions

    Good for you if

    • you like magic that leaves you quiet rather than clapping.
    • you can watch one man hold a room with stories and cards for ninety minutes.
    • you'd rather keep a question like "who am I" than get it answered.

    Bad for you if

    • you roll your eyes at a stage show that asks you to be moved.
    • you need momentum. Most of it is one man speaking softly on a small stage.

    About: identity · illusion · being seen

    Explora sus caras