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Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story 2024
Documentary
Christopher Reeve portrayed the Man of Steel in four Superman films and played dozens of other roles that displayed his talent and range as an actor, before being injured in a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down. After becoming a quadriplegic, he became a charismatic leader and activist in the quest to find a cure for spinal cord injuries, as well as a passionate advocate for disability rights and care.
The sides of Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
- The actor who played Superman, paralysed after a riding accident
- His wife Dana and his three children
- A fight for spinal cord research
Good for you if
- you like being moved by a man learning to live again.
- you want the real Christopher Reeve, from Superman to activist.
- you like a story told by his children, about a father they nearly lost.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch paralysis, hospitals and grief up close.
- you roll your eyes at a tribute full of courage and love.
About: courage · disability · fatherhood
Everybody’s Everything 2019
Documentary
The story of artist Lil Peep from his birth in Long Island and meteoric rise as a genre blending pop star & style icon, to his death due to an accidental opioid overdose in Arizona at just 21 years of age.
The sides of Everybody’s Everything
- Lil Peep, from Long Island to stardom
- His family and friends remembering him
- A death from an overdose at 21
Good for you if
- you love Lil Peep's songs or want to know where they came from.
- you're ready to be moved by a life cut short at 21.
- you want the story told by the people who loved him.
Bad for you if
- you can't take drugs, depression and an overdose on screen.
- you need more than home videos and interviews.
About: grief · fame · addiction

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
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father 2008
Documentary
In 2001, Andrew Bagby, a medical resident, is murdered not long after breaking up with his girlfriend. Soon after, when she announces she's pregnant, one of Andrew's many close friends, Kurt Kuenne, begins this film, a gift to the child.
The sides of Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
- A film made as a letter to a baby boy
- Friends remembering one man one by one
- Grandparents fighting for their grandson
Good for you if
- you want a film that will take you apart.
- you like a documentary built from home movies and the voices of friends.
- you want grandparents and their grandson at the centre.
Bad for you if
- a murder and a family in grief are too much for you.
- you need a documentary that ends with some hope.
About: grief · memory · parental love
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
For Sama 2019
Documentary
A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.
The sides of For Sama
- A young mother filming for her baby daughter
- A hospital in Aleppo under bombing
- The choice to stay or to leave
Good for you if
- you want a war told from inside by the woman living it.
- you like a love letter from a mother to her child.
- you want to understand what years of siege did to Aleppo.
Bad for you if
- you can't bear to see wounded children and grieving families.
- you won't read subtitles for a film mostly in Arabic.
About: motherhood · freedom · loss · hope
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
American: The Bill Hicks Story 2010
Documentary
American: The Bill Hicks Story is a biographical documentary film on the life of comedian Bill Hicks.
The sides of American: The Bill Hicks Story
- A stand-up comedian from Texas
- Club sets and old photos brought to life
- Friends and family telling his story
Good for you if
- you like stand-up and want to see where Bill Hicks's jokes came from.
- you laugh at jokes about religion, war and advertising that go too far.
- you like the real life of a comedian told by the people who knew him.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a young man's death from cancer.
- you roll your eyes at a loving tribute told by friends and family.
About: comedy · truth · rebellion · early death
Barefoot Gen 1983
Anime
A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
The sides of Barefoot Gen
- A boy in Hiroshima in August 1945
- The bomb falling on an ordinary morning
- A child looking after his mother in the ruins
Good for you if
- you want to be moved by a child who keeps going after losing almost everything.
- you want to see the Hiroshima bombing through the eyes of one family.
- you want a war film about civilians, not soldiers.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch the death of children and parents on screen.
- you can't stand bodies burning and melting in graphic detail.
- you don't watch animated films.
About: grief · survival · war
Val 2021
Documentary
For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood's most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors, has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.
The sides of Val
- Val Kilmer's own home videos over forty years
- His son reading his words
- Throat cancer and a lost voice
Good for you if
- you like an actor's life told through his own camera.
- you can be moved by Val Kilmer struggling to speak after cancer.
- you like a family story, from 16mm films made with his brothers to his son reading his words.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch illness and a body that fails.
- you want the energy of his films, not a quiet look back.
About: art · illness · memory
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
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
La tumba de las luciérnagas 1988
Anime
Verano de 1945. La aviación estadounidense somete las ciudades japonesas a continuos ataques aéreos. En uno de ellos, una incursión con bombas incendiarias convierte la ciudad de Kōbe en un infierno humeante, para los dos protagonistas (Seita, de 14 años, y su hermanita Setsuko, de 5). El joven Seita y su pequeña hermana Setsuko son hijos de un oficial de la marina japonesa. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, ambos viven con su madre, pero un día, tras un bombardeo, ellos se retrasan y no consiguen llegar al búnker donde ella los espera.
Las caras de La tumba de las luciérnagas
- Dos niños huérfanos en el Japón en guerra
- Un refugio antiaéreo abandonado como hogar
- Una lata de caramelos de frutas
Buena para ti si
- quieres una película que te deje llorando.
- quieres ver la guerra desde el lado de los civiles japoneses.
- te gusta un hermano que intenta mantener con vida a su hermana pequeña.
Mala para ti si
- necesitas algo de esperanza al final.
- no soportas ver a unos niños pasar hambre.
- no ves anime.
Temas: la guerra · la infancia · el orgullo · el hambre
There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane 2011
Documentary
Filmmaker Liz Garbus investigates the mysterious tragedy of Diane Schuler in an effort to understand what went wrong.
The sides of There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane
- A wrong-way crash on a New York parkway
- A family that rejects the toxicology report
- A crash that killed eight people
Good for you if
- you want to understand what happened in that car.
- you like a careful look at a real tragedy and the people left behind.
- you can live with questions the evidence never settles.
Bad for you if
- you can't take the death of children and a grieving family on screen.
- you want an evening that leaves you feeling light.
About: grief · denial · addiction
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
Finding Neverland 2004
Film
During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration that lead him to create his masterpiece. Peter Pan.
The sides of Finding Neverland
- J.M. Barrie in a writing slump
- A widow and her four boys
- The birth of Peter Pan
Good for you if
- you like a story about childhood that ends in tears.
- you like a writer who becomes part of a grieving family.
- you like Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet at their gentlest.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a mother's illness on screen.
- you roll your eyes at a film about believing in fairies.
About: imagination · grief · growing up
Life Itself 2014
Documentary
The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.
The sides of Life Itself
- Roger Ebert in his last months
- The Siskel and Ebert rivalry
- Chaz Ebert at his side
Good for you if
- you want the life of Roger Ebert, from Chicago newsrooms to television.
- you like being moved by a man facing the end with humor.
- you like a rivalry with Gene Siskel that turned into deep affection.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a long illness and its hospital scenes up close.
- you need a story that moves faster than a life told in interviews.
About: mortality · love · cinema
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
Take Care of Maya 2023
Documentary
When Jack and Beata Kowalski are wrongfully accused of child abuse after their 10-year-old daughter Maya visits the ER, a nightmare unfolds.
The sides of Take Care of Maya
- A sick ten-year-old taken into state custody
- Parents accused of abuse after a hospital visit
- A family suing the hospital
Good for you if
- you want to follow a family fighting to get their daughter back.
- you want to see how a hospital and child services can overrule parents.
- you're ready to be moved by what the Kowalskis went through.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a sick child kept away from her parents for months.
- you need some hope to hold on to in a true story.
About: false accusations · motherhood · institutions
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