¿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 The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness primero
Jiro Dreams of Sushi 2011
Documentary
Revered sushi chef Jiro Ono strives for perfection in his work, while his eldest son, Yoshikazu, has trouble living up to his father's legacy.
The sides of Jiro Dreams of Sushi
- A ten-seat sushi counter in a Tokyo subway station
- A chef of eighty-five still grading his own rice
- A son waiting to take over
Good for you if
- you like watching a real craftsman at work with no story added.
- you like eighty minutes of rice, tuna and repetition.
- you want to understand a father and the son who waits behind him.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles to hear a chef talk about rice.
- you want something at stake beyond the next plate of sushi.
About: mastery · fathers and sons · work
Tokyo-Ga 1985
Documentary
German director Wim Wenders tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu and finds a very different city.
The sides of Tokyo-Ga
- Wim Wenders walking through 1980s Tokyo
- Pachinko halls and plastic food
- Interviews with Ozu's actor Chishu Ryu and cameraman Yuharu Atsuta
Good for you if
- you like long, quiet shots of a city going about its day.
- you love Ozu and want to look for his Tokyo.
- you like a filmmaker's diary of a real city and its habits.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles in German and Japanese.
- you want characters to follow. Here the only lead is the city.
About: memory · cinema · modern life
The Beaches of Agnès 2008
Documentary
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
The sides of The Beaches of Agnès
- Agnès Varda looking back at eighty
- Mirrors set up on a beach
- Her life with Jacques Demy
Good for you if
- you like a filmmaker telling her own life in her own way.
- you like playful images, from mirrors on the sand to a street turned into a beach.
- you want time with a warm, curious, funny woman.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a French film.
- you need a documentary that moves fast and sticks to the facts.
About: memory · aging · love · cinema
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
Faces Places 2017
Documentary
Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
The sides of Faces Places
- Agnès Varda and the artist JR
- A photo truck across rural France
- Giant portraits pasted on walls, barns and containers
Good for you if
- you like an old filmmaker and a young artist becoming friends.
- you like a gentle road trip full of kind people.
- you like huge photos of farmers and dockers covering whole buildings.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles to follow Varda and JR chatting in French.
- you need a story that goes somewhere fast.
About: friendship · old age · ordinary people · memory
Miss Hokusai 2015
Anime
A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own mark in the world.
The sides of Miss Hokusai
- Hokusai's daughter painting in his shadow
- Edo, the city that became Tokyo
- A little sister who cannot see
Good for you if
- you like daily life in Edo-period Japan.
- you like a daughter living with a famous, difficult father.
- you love Japanese prints and painting brought to life.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch animated films.
- you need a story that builds instead of loose moments of life.
About: art · family · independence
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
David Lynch: The Art Life 2017
Documentary
An intimate journey through the formative years of David Lynch's life. From his idyllic upbringing in small town America to the dark streets of Philadelphia, we follow Lynch as he traces the events that have helped to shape one of cinema's most enigmatic directors.
The sides of David Lynch: The Art Life
- David Lynch talking while he paints
- A childhood in small town America
- Art school in a dark Philadelphia
Good for you if
- you love Lynch and want to see where his strangeness comes from.
- you like watching paintings take shape in his studio.
- you like a portrait of an artist before he became famous.
Bad for you if
- you want answers. Lynch tells his memories and leaves them unexplained.
- you need momentum, and long quiet shots of painting bore you.
About: art · childhood · becoming yourself
The Five Obstructions 2003
Documentary
In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starring a man and women sitting in a box while a narrator poses questions about their relationship and humanity. Years later, Danish director Lars von Trier made a deal with Leth to remake his film five times, each under a different set of circumstances and with von Trier's strictly prescribed rules. As Leth completes each challenge, von Trier creates increasingly further elaborate stipulations.
The sides of The Five Obstructions
- Jørgen Leth remaking his own short film
- Lars von Trier inventing the rules
- One remake made as a cartoon
Good for you if
- you like a game between two directors that keeps getting stranger.
- you're fascinated by Lars von Trier trying to break his mentor.
- you enjoy two filmmakers sparring across a table.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for the Danish parts.
- you need to know at the end who won the game between the two men.
About: creativity · constraints · mentorship
The Wind Rises 2013
Anime
A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.
The sides of The Wind Rises
- An engineer who dreams of airplanes
- The great Tokyo earthquake of 1923
- A love story shadowed by tuberculosis
Good for you if
- you like a quiet film about a life of work and dreams.
- you like a gentle love story that knows time is short.
- you want the life of the real man who designed Japan's Zero fighter.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you want air battles, and this is about drawing planes, not flying them in war.
About: creation · love · war
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
Whisper of the Heart 1995
Anime
Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: "Seiji Amasawa."
The sides of Whisper of the Heart
- A girl who reads every library book
- A boy learning to make violins
- A cat riding a train
Good for you if
- you want a quiet summer in the Tokyo suburbs.
- you like a first love that starts with a name on library cards.
- you like a girl figuring out if she can really write.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you need action to stay hooked. Here a girl writes a story and a boy builds violins.
About: first love · ambition · growing up
All That Breathes 2022
Documentary
Against the darkening backdrop of New Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protecting one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the black kite.
The sides of All That Breathes
- Two brothers caring for injured birds in Delhi
- A basement workshop turned bird hospital
- Black kites falling from a smoggy sky
Good for you if
- you like animals and a city seen through the birds above it.
- you like carefully framed images of rats, kites and polluted skies.
- you like brothers who argue but keep going together.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum, and this one takes its time.
- you won't read subtitles.
About: care · pollution · brotherhood
Stutz 2022
Documentary
In candid conversations with actor Jonah Hill, leading psychiatrist Phil Stutz explores his early life experiences and unique, visual model of therapy.
The sides of Stutz
- Jonah Hill filming his own therapist
- Therapy tools drawn on index cards
- A psychiatrist living with Parkinson's
Good for you if
- you like long, honest conversations about how to live.
- you like the warmth between Jonah Hill and Phil Stutz.
- you want to know the man behind the therapist.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at self-help and open hearts on camera.
- you need more than two men talking in a room.
About: therapy · self-acceptance · mentorship
Tim's Vermeer 2013
Documentary
Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years before the invention of photography? Spanning a decade, Jenison's adventure takes him to Holland, on a pilgrimage to the North coast of Yorkshire to meet artista David Hockney, and eventually even to Buckingham Palace. The epic research project Jenison embarques on is as extraordinary as what he discovers.
The sides of Tim's Vermeer
- An inventor who has never painted
- A room in Texas rebuilt like Vermeer's
- Mirrors, lenses and years of patience
Good for you if
- you like a theory tested with real lenses and mirrors.
- you like a centuries old question about how Vermeer painted.
- you like Dutch painting from the 1600s.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum, and months of painting wear you out.
- you want Penn and Teller's stage comedy. Here they mostly watch a friend paint.
About: art · obsession · patience
This Is Not a Film 2011
Documentary
Renowned Iranian director Jafar Panahi received a 6-year prison sentence and a 20-year ban from filmmaking and conducting interviews with foreign press due to his open support for the opposition party in Iran's 2009 election. In this film, which was shot secretly by Panahi's close friend Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and smuggled into France on a USB stick concealed inside a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, Panahi documents his daily life under house arrest as he awaits a decision on his appeal.
The sides of This Is Not a Film
- A director banned from making films
- An apartment in Tehran under house arrest
- A film smuggled out inside a cake
Good for you if
- you want to see a ban on filmmaking from the inside.
- you care about Jafar Panahi defying a state that silenced him.
- you like a quiet day at home, phone calls and a pet iguana.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles in Persian.
- you need clear answers, and this film leaves you unsure what is staged and how Panahi's appeal ends.
About: censorship · freedom · creation
Pompo the Cinephile 2021
Anime
Operating out of the movie capital "Nyallywood," Pompo has been shooting one B-grade entertainment flick after another that anyone would enjoy. One day, Pompo's "movie buff" assistant Gene spots a new script written by Pompo and is moved by its exquisite story. In a fit of passion, he proclaims, "I want to see this as a finished work in theaters as soon as possible!" However, Pompo tells him, "So you shoot this film." Thus, Gene takes on his first directing gig. Meanwhile, Natalie, an ordinary girl who just arrived in town with movie actress dreams, has been discovered by Pompo...
The sides of Pompo the Cinephile
- A tiny producer ruling Nyallywood
- An assistant directing his first film
- An unknown actress cast in the lead
Good for you if
- you like a story that believes making a film is worth everything.
- you like quick, silly jokes about a tiny producer bossing Nyallywood around.
- you like watching Gene find himself in the editing room.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you won't read subtitles.
About: creation · ambition · cinema
In This Corner of the World 2016
Anime
Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…
The sides of In This Corner of the World
- A young bride who moves to Kure in 1943
- Daily life in a naval port under air raids
- Hiroshima just across the bay
Good for you if
- you like a war film told through cooking, sewing and family meals.
- you like Suzu, dreamy and stubborn, keeping a household going.
- you like hand-drawn images that look like her own sketches.
Bad for you if
- you can't take air raids reaching a family's home, and the grief that follows.
- you need momentum, and most of the film is quiet everyday life.
- you don't watch animated films.
About: daily life · loss · resilience · marriage
Burden of Dreams 1982
Documentary
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.
The sides of Burden of Dreams
- Werner Herzog shooting Fitzcarraldo in the Amazon
- A steamboat pulled over a mountain
- A film crew facing accidents and delays
Good for you if
- you like watching a real film shoot slowly fall apart.
- you like the Peruvian jungle filmed up close.
- you like the sight of a whole steamboat hauled up a hill.
Bad for you if
- you find early 1980s footage dated.
- you need a film that moves faster than a jungle shoot.
About: obsession · filmmaking · nature

Chronicle of a Summer 1961
Documentary
Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking passersby how they cope with life's misfortunes.
The sides of Chronicle of a Summer
- Passersby in Paris asked if they are happy
- Workers, students and friends talking about their lives
- Paris and Saint-Tropez in the summer of 1960
Good for you if
- you like black and white films that invented a way of filming.
- you like long, honest conversations with ordinary people.
- you want to feel France in 1960, with the Algerian war in the background.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles.
- you need momentum more than long conversations.
About: happiness · work · friendship · the human condition