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1. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
288 min | Documentary, Biography
Director Jonas Mekas provides an intimate glimpse of his personal life by constructing a feature length narrative from over 30 years of private home movie footage.
Director: Jonas Mekas | Stars: Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Hollis Frampton
Votes: 1,466
2.
Histoire(s) du cinéma (1989–1999)
Episode:
Toutes les histoires
(1989)
51 min | Documentary
An 8-part documentary chronically the history of cinema: "All the Histories", "A Single History", "Only Cinema", "Deadly "Beauty", "The Coin of the Absolute", "A New Wave", "The Control of the Universe", and "The Signs Among Us".
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 989
3. Statues also Die (1953)
30 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary of black art.
Directors: Ghislain Cloquet, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais | Stars: Jean Négroni, François Mitterrand, Pope Pius XII, Sugar Ray Robinson
Votes: 1,375
4. Guernica (1951)
13 min | Documentary, Short
On April 26 1937 the small Basque town of Guernica was bombed without warning by the German aviation. Two thousand people, all civilians, got killed. Like millions all over the world, Pablo... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Hessens, Alain Resnais | Stars: María Casares, Jacques Pruvost
Votes: 1,042
5. The Inextinguishable Fire (1969)
25 min | War, Short
Short film which explores the origins of napalm, it's use in the Vietnam war, and it's evil effects on society.
Director: Harun Farocki | Stars: Gerd Volker Bussäus, Harun Farocki, Caroline Gremm, Hanspeter Krüger
Votes: 339
6. Our Music (2004)
80 min | Drama
An indictment of modern times divided into three "kingdoms": "Enfer" ("Hell"), "Purgatoire" ("Purgatory") and "Paradis" ("Paradise").
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu, Rony Kramer, Jean-Christophe Bouvet
Votes: 3,119 | Gross: $0.14M
7. Night and Fog (1956)
TV-14 | 32 min | Documentary, Short, History
The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 21,482
8. Dear Phone (1976)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short
A narrator relates a variety of peculiar stories involving characters with the initials HC and their dealings with telephones. These are interspersed with artistic shots of telephone boxes in a variety of locations.
Director: Peter Greenaway | Star: Peter Greenaway
Votes: 747
9. In Praise of Love (2001)
PG | 97 min | Drama
An author works on a project on the subject of love, and, in the process, crosses paths with a former love in his life.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Bruno Putzulu, Cécile Camp, Jean Davy, Françoise Verny
Votes: 3,021 | Gross: $0.25M
10. Digital (2005)
7 min | Documentary, Short
A cinematic essay challenging the digital revolution's broader benefits and their consequences since the early 1980s in our civilization, as they impact economy, industry, health, biodiversity, sustainability, governance, and lifestyles.
Director: Elías León Siminiani | Star: Charity Bustamante
Votes: 25
11. Diaries Notes and Sketches (1968)
Not Rated | 177 min | Documentary
A chronogical about life including self, family, friend, couple and idol in 6 reels
Director: Jonas Mekas | Stars: Timothy Leary, Ed Emshwiller, Franz Fuenstler, Jack Smith
Votes: 789
12. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas creates an elegiac diary of a trip to his home country of Lithuania.
Director: Jonas Mekas | Stars: Jonas Mekas, Adolfas Mekas, Pola Chapelle, Ken Jacobs
Votes: 1,252
13. Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1989)
75 min | Documentary, War
Documentary examines the 'blind spot' of the evaluators of aerial footage of the IG Farben industrial plant taken by the Americans in 1944.
Director: Harun Farocki | Stars: Ulrike Grote, Harun Farocki
Votes: 323
14. Tarnation (2003)
Unrated | 88 min | Documentary, Biography
Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette's documentary on growing up with his schizophrenic mother -- a mixture of snapshots, Super-8 film, answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, and more - culled from nineteen years of his life.
Director: Jonathan Caouette | Stars: Jonathan Caouette, Renee Leblanc, Adolph Davis, Rosemary Davis
Votes: 6,710 | Gross: $0.59M
15. La Jetée (1962)
Not Rated | 28 min | Short, Drama, Romance
The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Étienne Becker, Jean Négroni, Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich
Votes: 37,079
16. A Grin Without A Cat (1977)
240 min | Documentary
French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America.
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Simone Signoret, Jorge Semprún, Davos Hanich, Sandra Scarnati
Votes: 1,114
17. Letter from Siberia (1958)
62 min | Documentary
A witty examination of life and culture in Siberia.
Director: Chris Marker | Star: Georges Rouquier
Votes: 846
18. Kashima Paradise (1973)
110 min | Documentary
Directors: Bénie Deswarte, Yann Le Masson | Star: Chris Marker
Votes: 35
19. JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December (1994)
62 min | Documentary, Drama
Director Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction of film industry and film as art, as well as the act of creating art.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean-Luc Godard, Geneviève Pasquier, Denis Jadót, Brigitte Bastien
Votes: 803
20. Level Five (1997)
Not Rated | 106 min | Documentary, Romance, War
The French computer programmer Laura inherits the task of making a computer game of the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. She searches the internet for information on the battle, and ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Catherine Belkhodja, Kenji Tokitsu, Nagisa Ôshima, Junichi Ushiyama
Votes: 947 | Gross: $0.02M
21. Les soviets plus l'électricité (2002)
175 min | Documentary
A cinematic journey through Russia to Magadan, a city famous in Soviet times for housing a labor camp, in which the director uses excerpts from his audio diary and old film footage, in search for imaginary roots and political implications.
Director: Nicolas Rey
Votes: 26
22. No Home Movie (2015)
Not Rated | 115 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Chantal Akerman documents the life of her mother Natalia Akerman, a Polish immigrant and survivor of Auschwitz.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Chantal Akerman, Natalia Akerman, Sylvaine Akerman
Votes: 1,098 | Gross: $0.02M
23. The Koumiko Mystery (1965)
54 min | Documentary
While filming the Olympics, a filmmaker encounters a Japanese girl. Manchurian born and French educated, she's an intriguing anomaly. He films her around Tokyo, as she speaks of Japan, being Japanese and her unique perspective on life.
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Chris Marker, Kumiko Muraoka
Votes: 679
24. One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevitch (1987)
55 min | Documentary
A documentary made prior to the death of filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, showing him working on his final film "The Sacrifice". This documentation was made at Tarkovsky's request to stand as a ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Andrei Tarkovsky, Marina Vlady, Eva Mattes, Alexandra Stewart
Votes: 612
25. Filming 'Othello' (1978)
84 min | Documentary
Essay film shot for TV including Orson Welles reflections on Othello close to the Moviola, a chat with Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammóir and fragments of a conversation with the audience in Boston after a screening of the film.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Micheál MacLiammóir, Hilton Edwards
Votes: 531
26. Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1972)
52 min | Documentary
Letter to Jane (1972) is a postscript film to Tout va bien directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin and made under the auspices of the Dziga Vertov Group. Narrated in a ... See full summary »
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin | Stars: Marlon Brando, Moshe Dayan, James Dean, Maria Falconetti
Votes: 527
27. The Carabineers (1963)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Patrice Moullet, Marino Masé, Geneviève Galéa, Catherine Ribeiro
Votes: 3,615
28. Lightning Over Water (1980)
91 min | Documentary
Wim Wenders abandons the shoot of one of his own films in order to help his friend and fellow director Nicholas Ray create his swan song before he dies.
Directors: Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders | Stars: Gerry Bamman, Ronee Blakley, Pierre Cottrell, Stefan Czapsky
Votes: 1,505
29. Remembrance of Things to Come (2001 Video)
Not Rated | 42 min | Documentary, Short
Through photos made by the French photographer Denise Bellon, a personnal history of France.
Directors: Yannick Bellon, Chris Marker | Star: Pierre Arditi
Votes: 291
30. Pravda (1970)
58 min | Documentary
Co-directed by Godard with the Dziga Vertov group in 1969, 'Pravda's a direct attack to revisionism and socialist imperialism. With his usual collage of images taken from real life, the ... See full summary »
Directors: Paul Burron, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Roger | Stars: Jean-Luc Godard, Vera Chytilová
Votes: 295
31. See You at Mao (1970)
Not Rated | 54 min | Documentary
An examination of the daily routine at a British auto factory assembly line, set against class-conflict and The Communist Manifesto.
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Roger
Votes: 581
32. A Film Like Any Other (1968)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
Workers on a car factory argue with revolutionary students.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 359
33. Mapa (2012)
85 min | Documentary, Biography
This is the story of a young Spanish director burned out by his job on TV, who went to India in search of his first feature film only to discover that the real search was not for him in ... See full summary »
Director: Elías León Siminiani | Star: Elías León Siminiani
Votes: 250
34. The Last Time I Saw Macao (2012)
Unrated | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
Two filmmakers leave to Macao in an adventure of discovery of a city-labyrinth, multicultural and mysterious, where the memories of the childhood - featured memories by the lived reality in... See full summary »
Directors: João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata | Stars: Cindy Scrash, João Rui Guerra da Mata, João Pedro Rodrigues, Maria João Guerra da Mata
Votes: 567
35. Portrait of Jason (1967)
Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary, Biography
Black gay prostitute Jason Holliday is rigorously interviewed on his story and character, revealing nuanced truths about life and art.
Director: Shirley Clarke | Stars: Jason Holliday, Shirley Clarke, Carl Lee
Votes: 1,408
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