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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
Five Broken Cameras 2011
Documentary
Five broken cameras – and each one has a powerful tale to tell. Embedded in the bullet-ridden remains of digital technology is the story of Emad Burnat, a farmer from the Palestinian village of Bil’in, which famously chose nonviolent resistance when the Israeli army encroached upon its land to make room for Jewish colonists. Emad buys his first camera in 2005 to document the birth of his fourth son, Gibreel. Over the course of the film, he becomes the peaceful archivist of an escalating struggle as olive trees are bulldozed, lives are lost, and a wall is built to segregate burgeoning Israeli settlements.
The sides of Five Broken Cameras
- A Palestinian farmer filming his village
- Weekly protests against a separation wall
- A son growing up in front of the camera
Good for you if
- you want to see Bil'in through the eyes of a man who lives there.
- you like a father filming his youngest son as he grows up.
- you like a story told by one man and his cameras, year after year.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch real people being hurt and killed on camera.
- you need some hope by the end of a film.
About: resistance · land · fatherhood · loss
Bully 2011
Documentary
This year, over 5 million American kids will be bullied at school, online, on the bus, at home, through their cell phones and on the streets of their towns, making it the most common form of violence young people in this country experience. The Bully Project is the first feature documentary film to show how we've all been affected by bullying, whether we've been victims, perpetrators or stood silent witness. The world we inhabit as adults begins on the playground. The Bully Project opens on the first day of school. For the more than 5 million kids who'll be bullied this year in the United States, it's a day filled with more anxiety and foreboding than excitement. As the sun rises and school busses across the country overflow with backpacks, brass instruments and the rambunctious sounds of raging hormones, this is a ride into the unknown.
The sides of Bully
- Kids bullied at school and on the bus
- Parents who lost sons to suicide
- Schools that look away
Good for you if
- you want to hear bullied kids and their parents in their own words.
- you're ready to be moved by families speaking after a loss.
- you care about what school really feels like for kids who don't fit in.
Bad for you if
- you can't take a film about children who took their own lives.
- you need a film that offers more answers than pain.
About: bullying · grief · childhood
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
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
Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids 2004
Documentary
Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta. Director Zana Briski went to photograph the prostitutes when she met and became friends with their children. Briski began giving photography lessons to the children and became aware that their photography might be a way for them to lead better lives.
The sides of Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
- Children of sex workers in Calcutta
- Cameras handed to kids in a red light district
- A photographer trying to get them into school
Good for you if
- you want real children from Calcutta's red light district telling their own lives.
- you can be moved by kids who still laugh where they grow up.
- you like seeing a place through the photos the children took themselves.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch children growing up around prostitution and violence.
- you need a happy ending for every child.
About: childhood · poverty · art as a way out
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer 2003
Documentary
British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial.
The sides of Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
- Nick Broomfield's interviews with Aileen Wuornos
- Her last days on death row
- Her childhood in Michigan
Good for you if
- you want a real person behind the headlines.
- you like a portrait of someone you can't easily judge.
- you can take a story that ends in an execution.
Bad for you if
- you can't take childhood abuse and mental illness on screen.
- you want a gentle evening, and this is a woman on death row.
About: the death penalty · trauma · madness
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
One Child Nation 2019
Documentary
Through interviews with both victims and instigators, Nanfu Wang, a first-time mother, breaks open decades of silence on a vast, unprecedented social experiment that shaped — and destroyed — countless lives in China.
The sides of One Child Nation
- China's one child policy
- A new mother going back to her village
- Officials, midwives and families speaking
Good for you if
- you want to hear the people who lived the policy, in their own words.
- you want to see how a state reaches into every family.
- you like a filmmaker questioning her own parents and relatives.
Bad for you if
- you can't face forced abortions and abandoned babies, even in testimony.
- you need some hope by the end of a documentary.
About: state control · silence · motherhood · guilt
The Devil and Daniel Johnston 2006
Documentary
This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his mental illness and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession.
The sides of The Devil and Daniel Johnston
- Daniel Johnston's home tapes and drawings
- A songwriter living with manic depression
- Parents caring for their adult son
Good for you if
- you love raw songs recorded on cassette in a basement.
- you want a close portrait of one fragile, gifted man.
- you like a life told through its own tapes and home movies.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch mental illness take hold of someone up close.
- you want a feel-good music story, and you get a hard and tender one.
About: mental illness · art · family

Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult 2020
Documentary
This four-part documentary series follows the story of India Oxenberg's perilous journey through the dark and criminal world of the notorious self-help-group-turned-sex-slave-cult NXIVM.
The sides of Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult
- A young actress drawn into NXIVM
- A self-help group that became a cult
- A mother fighting to get her daughter out
Good for you if
- you want India Oxenberg telling her own story.
- you want to understand how a group took control of its members.
- you're moved by a mother who refuses to give up on her daughter.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch accounts of manipulation and sexual abuse.
- you want the whole cult told through many former members. This one stays close to India and her mother.
About: manipulation · control · recovery
Audrie & Daisy 2016
Documentary
A documentary film about three cases of rape, that includes the stories of two American high school students, Audrie Pott and Daisy Coleman. At the time of the sexual assaults, Pott was 15 and Coleman was 14 years old. After the assaults, the victims and their families were subjected to abuse and cyberbullying.
The sides of Audrie & Daisy
- Two teenage girls who were sexually assaulted
- Families facing the aftermath
- Online harassment in small towns
Good for you if
- you want to hear what happened from the families and survivors themselves.
- you can be moved by families speaking about a loss.
- you want to see how small towns turned on two girls instead of the boys they accused.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a film about sexual assault and suicide.
- you need justice at the end of a true story, and these cases leave you angry.
About: consent · victim blaming · cyberbullying · grief
Million Dollar Baby 2004
Película
Frankie Dunn, después de haber entrenado y representado a los mejores púgiles, regenta un gimnasio con la ayuda de Scrap, un ex-boxeador que, además, es su único amigo. Frankie es un hombre solitario y adusto que se refugia desde hace años en la religión buscando una redención que no llega. Un día, entra en su gimnasio Maggie Fitzgerald, una voluntariosa chica que quiere boxear y que está dispuesta a luchar denodadamente para conseguirlo. Pero lo que más desea y necesita es que alguien crea en ella. Frankie la rechaza alegando que es demasiado mayor y que, además, él no entrena a chicas. Pero Maggie no se rinde y se machaca cada día en el gimnasio, con el único apoyo de Scrap. Finalmente, convencido de la inquebrantable determinación de Maggie, Frankie decide entrenarla.
Las caras de Million Dollar Baby
- Una camarera que quiere boxear
- Un viejo entrenador que dice que no
- Un vínculo como de padre e hija
Buena para ti si
- quieres una película de boxeo que te saque lágrimas en vez de vítores.
- te gustan las interpretaciones calladas y profundas.
- te gustan dos solitarios que se convierten en familia.
Mala para ti si
- una historia que se vuelca en el sufrimiento y el duelo es demasiado pesada para ti esta noche.
- quieres una película deportiva cálida y alentadora. La historia de Frankie y Maggie es triste.
Temas: la dignidad · la familia · la pérdida
Hacia rutas salvajes 2007
Película
A principios de los años noventa, el joven e idealista Christopher McCandless adopta el nombre de Alexander Supertramp, deja sus posesiones y sus ahorros a la beneficencia y abandona el mundo civilizado con rumbo a la salvaje Alaska para entrar en contacto con la Naturaleza y descubrir el verdadero sentido de la vida. Adaptación del best-seller de Jon Krakauer, basado en las notas del diario de McCandless.
Las caras de Hacia rutas salvajes
- Un graduado que lo regala todo
- Un viaje por carretera por Estados Unidos
- Un autobús abandonado en Alaska
Buena para ti si
- te gustan los grandes paisajes y la vida salvaje.
- te gusta un joven en busca de sentido.
- te gusta la historia real de un graduado que regaló sus ahorros y viajó a dedo hasta Alaska.
Mala para ti si
- dos horas y media es demasiado para tu noche.
- no soportas ver sufrir a unos padres. Su familia espera dos años sin noticias suyas.
Temas: la libertad · la familia · la naturaleza
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
Abducted in Plain Sight 2017
Documentary
A family falls prey to the manipulative charms of a neighbor, who abducts their adolescent daughter. Twice.
The sides of Abducted in Plain Sight
- A neighbour who becomes part of the family
- A girl taken from a small Idaho town
- Parents slow to call the police
Good for you if
- you want the family themselves telling what happened.
- you can see the danger coming before the family does.
- you want to understand how a whole family was drawn in.
Bad for you if
- a child's abuse recounted in detail is too much for you.
- you want a case to solve, here the man is named from the start.
About: manipulation · trust · family

The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo 2020
Documentary
After the death of her daughter at the hand of her boyfriend, Marisela Escobedo began to fight for justice not only against the murderer but also against the corrupt Mexican judicial system.
The sides of The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo
- A mother pursuing her daughter's killer
- A Mexican justice system that lets him go
- Years of protest in Chihuahua
Good for you if
- you want the true story of Marisela Escobedo's fight for justice.
- you want to follow a femicide case through Mexico's police and courts.
Bad for you if
- you can't take a mother's grief and a murdered daughter on screen.
- you need a story where justice wins in the end.
About: justice · grief · corruption
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
Grey Gardens 1976
Documentary
Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.
The sides of Grey Gardens
- A mother and daughter in a decaying mansion
- Little Edie's improvised outfits and songs
- Cats and raccoons in the house
Good for you if
- you like spending time with Big Edie and Little Edie as they are.
- you like a mother and daughter who bicker and can't leave each other.
- you like a strange, closed world on a Long Island estate.
Bad for you if
- you need a story that goes somewhere.
- you find 1970s handheld footage dated.
About: mother and daughter · solitude · the past
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