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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
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
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
Three Identical Strangers 2018
Documentary
New York, 1980. Three complete strangers accidentally discover that they're identical triplets, separated at birth. The 19-year-olds' joyous reunion catapults them to international fame, but also unlocks an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes beyond their own lives – and could transform our understanding of human nature forever.
The sides of Three Identical Strangers
- Three 19-year-olds who discover they are triplets
- Talk shows and fame in 1980s New York
- A secret study behind their adoption
Good for you if
- you like a happy story that turns dark halfway through.
- you like hearing the brothers tell it themselves.
- you want to think about what we owe to genes and what we owe to parents.
Bad for you if
- you can't take mental illness in a real family, told by the people who lived it.
- you want the joyful reunion to stay joyful.
About: identity · nature and nurture · brotherhood
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
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
Tarnation 2003
Documentary
Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette's documentary on growing up with his schizophrenic mother -- a mixture of snapshots, Super-8, answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, and more -- culled from 19 years of his life.
The sides of Tarnation
- A son filming his mother's mental illness
- Home movies, photos and answering machine messages
- Growing up gay in Texas
Good for you if
- you want a true life told by the person who lived it.
- you're drawn to the bond between a son and a mother who is ill.
- you like a collage of snapshots, Super 8 and video diaries.
Bad for you if
- you can't face abuse, mental illness and electroshock on screen.
- you need some hope and an ending that lifts you up.
About: mental illness · a mother and her son · memory
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
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
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
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
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
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
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story 2024
Series
The story of the Menéndez brothers, who were convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menéndez.
The sides of Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
- Two brothers who killed their parents
- A wealthy Beverly Hills home
- A trial about abuse and money
Good for you if
- you want to understand a case that made headlines in the nineties.
- you like actors carrying long, tense scenes of confession.
- you like being left to judge for yourself what happened in that family.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a story built around alleged child abuse.
- you can't stand seeing a real murder reenacted.
About: family · abuse · wealth · justice
Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry 2021
Documentary
This documentary offers a deeply intimate look at extraordinary teenager Billie Eilish. Award-winning filmmaker R.J. Cutler follows her journey on the road, onstage, and at home with her family as the writing and recording of her debut album changes her life.
The sides of Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry
- A teenager writing an album in her brother's bedroom
- A family on tour together
- A first Coachella and a first Grammys
Good for you if
- you like watching songs being written at home before they become hits.
- you like parents and a brother who stay close through sudden fame.
- you like seeing a teenager grow up in front of the whole world.
Bad for you if
- you want a music documentary under two hours. This one runs two hours and twenty.
- you'd rather not hear a teenager speak openly about depression and self-harm.
About: fame · growing up · family
Tell Me Who I Am 2019
Documentary
In this documentary, Alex trusts his twin, Marcus, to tell him about his past after he loses his memory. But Marcus is hiding a dark family secret.
The sides of Tell Me Who I Am
- A man who lost his memory at eighteen
- A twin brother who rebuilt his past for him
- A family secret kept for decades
Good for you if
- you like a true story where the truth comes out piece by piece.
- you want two brothers finally facing what happened in their home.
- you like being moved by a hard conversation between twins.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a film where buried childhood pain comes back to the surface.
- you need momentum more than long, quiet interviews.
About: memory · family secrets · brotherhood · trauma
Life, Animated 2016
Documentary
At three years old, a chatty, energetic little boy named Owen Suskind ceased to speak, disappearing into autism with apparently no way out. Almost four years passed and the only stimuli that engaged Owen were Disney films. Then one day, his father donned a puppet—Iago, the wisecracking parrot from Aladdin—and asked “what’s it like to be you?” And poof! Owen replied, with dialogue from the movie. Life, Animated tells the remarkable story of how Owen found in Disney animation a pathway to language and a framework for making sense of the world.
The sides of Life, Animated
- A boy with autism who speaks through Disney films
- A family learning his language
- Owen growing up and living on his own
Good for you if
- you like parents and a brother finding a way to reach Owen.
- you're ready to cry when a puppet of Iago gets a reply.
- you like following Owen as he grows up and moves out.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather a story that doesn't end on hope.
- you roll your eyes at heartfelt family moments.
About: autism · communication · family love
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
Flee 2021
Documentary
Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child refugee from Afghanistan as he grapples with a secret he’s kept hidden for 20 years.
The sides of Flee
- A man telling a friend what he fled from
- A childhood in Kabul, then years hidden in Russia
- A secret kept for twenty years from the man he loves
Good for you if
- you want a true story told by the person who lived it.
- you like animation used to protect a face and still show everything.
- you want one life followed from Kabul to a house in Denmark.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch animated films.
- you won't read subtitles for a Danish film.
- you can't sit with fear, separation and a family split apart.
About: exile · secrets · home
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