Best Movies about Photography
by apshot | created - 20 Dec 2014 | updated - 02 May 2020 | PublicA list of the best films and some documentaries about Photography and Photographers. The list is updated if necessary. Enjoy it!
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1. The Midnight Meat Train (2008)
R | 100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A photographer's obsessive pursuit of dark subject matter leads him into the path of a serial killer who stalks late night commuters, ultimately butchering them in the most gruesome ways.
Director: Ryûhei Kitamura | Stars: Vinnie Jones, Bradley Cooper, Leslie Bibb, Brooke Shields
Votes: 71,143 | Gross: $0.08M
2. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
PG | 114 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
When both he and a colleague are about to lose their job, Walter takes action by embarking on an adventure more extraordinary than anything he ever imagined.
Director: Ben Stiller | Stars: Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Jon Daly, Kathryn Hahn
Votes: 341,048 | Gross: $58.24M
3. Finding Vivian Maier (2013)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, Biography, Mystery
A documentary on the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous reputation as one of the most accomplished street photographers.
Directors: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel | Stars: Vivian Maier, John Maloof, Daniel Arnaud, Simon Amédé
Votes: 15,085 | Gross: $1.51M
4. Blow-Up (1966)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A fashion photographer unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle
Votes: 67,671
5. Salvador (1986)
R | 122 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A burnt-out photojournalist becomes involved in a Central American revolution.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: James Woods, Jim Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage
Votes: 23,162
6. Rear Window (1954)
PG | 112 min | Mystery, Thriller
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter
Votes: 522,267 | Gross: $36.76M
7. City of God (2002)
R | 130 min | Crime, Drama
In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
Directors: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund | Stars: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele, Phellipe Haagensen
Votes: 801,415 | Gross: $7.56M
8. 1,000 Times Good Night (2013)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama, War
Rebecca is one of the world's top war photographers. She must weather a major emotional storm when her husband refuses to put up with her dangerous life any longer.
Director: Erik Poppe | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lauryn Canny, Adrianna Cramer Curtis
Votes: 8,170 | Gross: $0.05M
9. Everlasting Moments (2008)
Not Rated | 131 min | Drama, History
In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.
Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, Callin Öhrvall
Votes: 5,957 | Gross: $0.61M
10. The Killing Fields (1984)
R | 141 min | Biography, Drama, History
A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Julian Sands
Votes: 59,229 | Gross: $34.70M
11. That Most Important Thing: Love (1975)
R | 109 min | Drama, Romance
Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance the ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc, Claude Dauphin
Votes: 4,652 | Gross: $0.02M
12. The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
PG | 115 min | Drama, Romance, War
A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Bembol Roco
Votes: 22,896 | Gross: $10.28M
13. Under Fire (1983)
R | 128 min | Drama, War
Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somoza regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Nick Nolte, Ed Harris, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy
Votes: 8,518 | Gross: $5.70M
14. Shutter (II) (2004)
Not Rated | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can not escape your past.
Directors: Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom | Stars: Ananda Everingham, Natthaweeranuch Thongmee, Achita Sikamana, Unnop Chanpaibool
Votes: 49,194
15. Proof (1991)
R | 86 min | Drama, Romance
The life of a blind photographer who is looked after by a housekeeper is disrupted by the arrival of an agreeable restaurant worker.
Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Geneviève Picot, Russell Crowe, Heather Mitchell
Votes: 7,126 | Gross: $0.52M
16. Dreams (1955)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
Two different women - a young photo model and her boss - dream about a happy life with beloved men. Their dreams are as different as they are.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Ulf Palme
Votes: 3,467
17. The Bang Bang Club (2010)
R | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History
A drama based on the true-life experiences of four combat photographers capturing the final days of apartheid in South Africa.
Director: Steven Silver | Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman, Taylor Kitsch, Neels van Jaarsveld
Votes: 11,532
18. Distant (2002)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
After his wife leaves him, a photographer has an existential crisis and tries to cope with his cousin's visit.
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Stars: Muzaffer Özdemir, Mehmet Emin Toprak, Zuhal Gencer, Nazan Kesal
Votes: 22,897 | Gross: $0.10M
19. Pretty Baby (1978)
R | 110 min | Drama
A preteen girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Frances Faye
Votes: 12,843 | Gross: $5.79M
20. One Hour Photo (2002)
R | 96 min | Drama, Thriller
A mentally unstable photo developer targets an upper middle-class family after his obsession with them becomes more sick and disturbing than any of them could imagine.
Director: Mark Romanek | Stars: Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Dylan Smith
Votes: 131,761 | Gross: $31.60M
21. Triage (2009)
R | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, War
The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.
Director: Danis Tanovic | Stars: Colin Farrell, Jamie Sives, Paz Vega, Kelly Reilly
Votes: 10,678
22. The Salt of the Earth (2014)
PG-13 | 110 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.
Directors: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders | Stars: Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Lélia Wanick Salgado, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Votes: 23,468 | Gross: $1.34M
23. The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
PG-13 | 135 min | Drama, Romance
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Annie Corley, Victor Slezak
Votes: 88,946 | Gross: $71.52M
24. Zenne Dancer (2011)
104 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A feature film about an unusual trio: Daniel, a German photo-journalist in Istanbul without much knowledge about Turkish values. Can, a flamboyant, out and proud male belly dancer with lots... See full summary »
Directors: Caner Alper, Mehmet Binay | Stars: Kerem Can, Giovanni Arvaneh, Erkan Avci, Tilbe Saran
Votes: 2,867
25. For Lovers Only (2011)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An American photographer runs into an old flame while on assignment in Paris.
Director: Michael Polish | Stars: Mark Polish, Stana Katic, Jean-Claude Thibaut, Jean-Marc Toussaint
Votes: 1,651
26. Time to Leave (2005)
Unrated | 81 min | Drama
A fashion photographer with terminal cancer elects to die alone, preparing others to live past him rather than prolong the inevitable with chemotherapy or be smothered in sympathy by those who know him.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Daniel Duval
Votes: 9,262 | Gross: $0.12M
27. The Public Eye (1992)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
In the early 1940s, an infamous New York paparazzo gets an assignment from a club owner to do a background search on a mysterious gangster, which leads him down a very dangerous path.
Director: Howard Franklin | Stars: Joe Pesci, Barbara Hershey, Richard Riehle, Bryan Travis Smith
Votes: 4,427 | Gross: $3.07M
28. Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
R | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Barry Pepper, Joseph Cross, Jesse Bradford
Votes: 129,277 | Gross: $33.60M
29. Palermo Shooting (2008)
124 min | Drama
After the wild life-style of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman help him calm himself down?
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Campino, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Dennis Hopper, Inga Busch
Votes: 3,195
30. Ship of Theseus (2012)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama
The film explores questions of identity, justice, beauty, meaning and death through an experimental photographer, an ailing monk and a young stockbroker.
Director: Anand Gandhi | Stars: Aydah El-Kashef, Yogesh Shah, Faraz Khan, Hannan Youssef
Votes: 7,797
31. Pecker (1998)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
A talented young photographer, who enjoys snapping photos of his satirical, perverted Baltimore neighborhood and his wacky family, gets dragged into a world of pretentious artists from New York City and finds newfound fame.
Director: John Waters | Stars: Edward Furlong, Christina Ricci, Bess Armstrong, Mark Joy
Votes: 14,859 | Gross: $2.28M
32. Guinevere (1999)
R | 104 min | Drama, Romance
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
Director: Audrey Wells | Stars: Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea, Jean Smart, Gina Gershon
Votes: 2,741 | Gross: $0.61M
33. Delirious (2006)
Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An offbeat drama focused on a homeless youth, a pop music siren and a member of the paparazzi.
Director: Tom DiCillo | Stars: Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Alison Lohman, Gina Gershon
Votes: 6,826 | Gross: $0.09M
34. My Straight Son (2012)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, Romance
Fashion photographer, Diego suddenly needs to care for the teenage son he's not seen in years just as his boyfriend is put in a coma from a brutal assault. Father and son must grow to understand each others' worlds to face other problems.
Director: Miguel Ferrari | Stars: Guillermo Garcia, Ignacio Montes, Hilda Abrahamz, Carolina Torres
Votes: 2,256
35. Margaret Bourke-White (1989 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 105 min | Biography, Drama
Biographical account of pioneering photographer's career.
Director: Lawrence Schiller | Stars: Farrah Fawcett, Frederic Forrest, David Huddleston, Jay Patterson
Votes: 120
36. Lies I Told My Little Sister (2014)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
After the death of her oldest sister, a 30 year old globe-trotting nature photographer is guilted onto a family trip to Cape Cod - along with the younger sister she used to torment. Amid ... See full summary »
Director: William J. Stribling | Stars: Ellen Foley, Lucy Walters, Donovan Patton, Alex Jennings
Votes: 102
37. Calendar (1993)
74 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A woman stays in Armenia after her photographer husband completes his assignment and returns home to Canada.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Arsinée Khanjian, Ashot Adamyan, Atom Egoyan, Michelle Bellerose
Votes: 2,361
38. The Snake (2006)
119 min | Thriller
Fashion photographer Vincent Mandel, in the midst of a difficult divorce, is suddenly being accused of rape and extorted. What does his former classmate Joseph Plender want from him?
Director: Eric Barbier | Stars: Yvan Attal, Clovis Cornillac, Pierre Richard, Simon Abkarian
Votes: 2,655
39. Woman in Chains (1968)
R | 106 min | Drama
Stanislas Hassler blazes the development of modern art in his gallery, packed with works of surprising shapes, colours and textures, and where exhibitions turn into media events. Gilbert ... See full summary »
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Laurent Terzieff, Elisabeth Wiener, Bernard Fresson, Dany Carrel
Votes: 1,732
40. Photographing Fairies (1997)
R | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Photographer Charles Castle is dazed with grief after the death of his girlfriend. He goes off to war and works in the trenches as photographer. After the war, still grieving, Charles receives some photographs that claim to be of fairies.
Director: Nick Willing | Stars: Toby Stephens, Emily Woof, Ben Kingsley, Frances Barber
Votes: 2,851
41. Circle of Deceit (1981)
R | 108 min | Drama, War
A German journalist, escaping from broken marriage, goes to Lebanon to cover the civil war. Soon, he realizes that he can't handle the truth.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla, Jean Carmet, Jerzy Skolimowski
Votes: 974
42. Life (I) (2015)
R | 111 min | Biography, Drama
A photographer for LIFE Magazine is assigned to shoot pictures of James Dean.
Director: Anton Corbijn | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Dane DeHaan, Peter Lucas, Lauren Gallagher
Votes: 8,882
43. Rezerwat (2007)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
A young photographer moves to Praga, the most notorious district of Warsaw, known for common crime and alcoholism as well as unique folklore. This experience will have much impact on both his personal and professional life.
Director: Lukasz Palkowski | Stars: Marcin Kwasny, Sonia Bohosiewicz, Grzegorz Palkowski, Artur Dziurman
Votes: 854
44. Heavenly Forest (2006)
116 min | Drama, Romance
A photographer named Makoto travels to New York during Christmas to look for his best friend, Shizuru. The two first met when Makoto attended his university entrance ceremony. Due to his ... See full summary »
Director: Takehiko Shinjô | Stars: Aoi Miyazaki, Hiroshi Tamaki, Munetaka Aoki, Saori Ban
Votes: 3,602
45. Boat People (1982)
R | 109 min | Drama
A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the Liberation and learns harsh truths about its regime and its "New Economic Zones".
Director: Ann Hui | Stars: George Lam, Cora Miao, Season Ma, Andy Lau
Votes: 1,685
46. McCullin (2012)
91 min | Documentary
To many, Don McCullin is the greatest living war photographer, often cited as an inspiration for today's photojournalists. For the first time, McCullin speaks candidly about his ... See full summary »
Directors: David Morris, Jacqui Morris | Stars: Harold Evans, Don McCullin, Michael Parkinson, Sue Ryder
Votes: 2,287
47. Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970)
R | 105 min | Drama
Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressful workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising ... See full summary »
Director: Jerry Schatzberg | Stars: Faye Dunaway, Barry Primus, Viveca Lindfors, Barry Morse
Votes: 922
48. Don't Look Back (2009)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A psychodrama about a photographer whose pictures tell a different story to that of her perception.
Director: Marina de Van | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Monica Bellucci, Andrea Di Stefano, Thierry Neuvic
Votes: 7,441
49. I'd Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips (2011)
100 min | Drama
The photographer Cauby moves and settles down in a small town in the countryside of Pará. When he meets the model Lavínia, who is the wife of Pastor Ernani, they have a torrid love affair. ... See full summary »
Directors: Beto Brant, Renato Ciasca | Stars: Camila Pitanga, Gustavo Machado, Zécarlos Machado, Gero Camilo
Votes: 675
50. Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories (2015)
102 min | Crime, Drama
It is the late nineties, Vietnam is in economic turmoil and overpopulation has sparked political concern. Vu, a photography student, arrives in the sprawling metropolis of Saigon and moves ... See full summary »
Director: Dang Di Phan | Stars: Do Thi Hai Yen, Ha Phong Nguyen, Hoang Le Cong, Truong The Vinh
Votes: 419
51. Into the Storm (2014)
PG-13 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Storm trackers, thrill-seekers, and everyday townspeople document an unprecedented onslaught of tornadoes touching down in the town of Silverton.
Director: Steven Quale | Stars: Richard Armitage, Sarah Wayne Callies, Matt Walsh, Max Deacon
Votes: 71,514 | Gross: $47.60M
52. Boyhood (I) (2014)
R | 165 min | Drama
The life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Elijah Smith
Votes: 367,234 | Gross: $25.38M
53. High Art (1998)
R | 101 min | Drama, Romance
A young female intern at a small magazine company and a drug-addicted lesbian photographer slowly fall in love while exploiting each other to advance their respective careers.
Director: Lisa Cholodenko | Stars: Radha Mitchell, Ally Sheedy, Patricia Clarkson, Gabriel Mann
Votes: 11,114 | Gross: $1.93M
54. Closer (I) (2004)
R | 104 min | Drama, Romance
The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Clive Owen, Julia Roberts
Votes: 236,147 | Gross: $33.99M
55. Gentlemen's Relish (2001 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
A painter in London paints in a style no longer popular. His assistant suggests artistic photography. It blooms. So much more when he photographs settings from classical nude paintings, naively oblivious to the real reason to success.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon | Stars: Billy Connolly, Sarah Lancashire, Douglas Henshall, Katie Blake
Votes: 261
56. Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
R | 122 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Turning her back on her wealthy, established family, Diane Arbus falls in love with Lionel Sweeney, an enigmatic mentor who introduces Arbus to the marginalized people who help her become one of the most revered photographers of the twentieth century.
Director: Steven Shainberg | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey Jr., Ty Burrell, Harris Yulin
Votes: 16,364 | Gross: $0.22M
57. Harrison's Flowers (2000)
R | 121 min | Drama, Romance, War
When a Newsweek photojournalist disappears in war-torn Yugoslavia, his wife travels to Europe to find him.
Director: Élie Chouraqui | Stars: Andie MacDowell, Scott Anton, Elias Koteas, Brendan Gleeson
Votes: 6,769 | Gross: $1.84M
58. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (2004)
R | 85 min | Documentary, Biography, News
Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.
Directors: Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman | Stars: Kochi, Avijit Halder, Shanti Das, Manik
Votes: 18,009 | Gross: $3.41M
59. War Photographer (2001)
96 min | Documentary, War
Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.
Director: Christian Frei | Stars: James Nachtwey, Christiane Amanpour, Hans-Hermann Klare, Christiane Breustedt
Votes: 4,304
60. The War Photographers (2013)
28 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
'The War Photographers' recounts the personal experiences of award-winning photojournalists who risk their lives covering conflict in the world's most dangerous war zones. Intimate ... See full summary »
Director: Steven Kochones | Stars: Alexandra Avakian, Carolyn Cole, William Dudley, Ashley Gilbertson
Votes: 12
61. La maleta mexicana (2011)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, Drama, History
The story of three lost boxes known as the Mexican Suitcase that were recovered in 2007. The boxes, misplaced in the chaos at the start of WWII, contained many of the Spanish Civil War ... See full summary »
Director: Trisha Ziff | Stars: Ernest Alós, Juan Diego Botto, Sebastian del Amo, Antonio de la Fuente Ferraz
Votes: 274
62.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
(2006)
TV-14 | Documentary, Biography, History
Annie Leibovitz enrolled in the San Francisco Art Institute intent on studying painting. It was not until she traveled to Japan with her mother after her sophomore year that she discovered her interest in taking photographs.
Director: Barbara Leibovitz | Stars: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Graydon Carter, Hillary Clinton, George Clooney
Votes: 566
63. Guest of Cindy Sherman (2008)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
A documentary on art-scene commentator Paul Hasegawa-Overacker's relationship with enigmatic photographer Cindy Sherman.
Directors: Tom Donahue, Paul Hasegawa-Overacker | Stars: Cindy Sherman, John Waters, Eric Bogosian, Danny DeVito
Votes: 240
64. Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge (1989)
95 min | Documentary, Biography
A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big-breasted women are part of the iconography of twentieth-century erotic fantasy. He's on... See full summary »
Director: Adrian Maben | Stars: Adrian Maben, Candice Bergen, Tina Brown, Catherine Deneuve
Votes: 290
65. Pictures from a Revolution (1991)
93 min | Documentary, History
In 1981, Susan Meiselas published "Nicaragua, June 1978 to July 1979," 70 photographs she took documenting the Sandinista revolution. Ten years later, Meiselas returns looking for the ... See full summary »
Directors: Alfred Guzzetti, Susan Meiselas, Richard P. Rogers | Star: Susan Meiselas
Votes: 65
66. Strand, Under the Dark Cloth (1991)
Not Rated | 81 min | Documentary
Paul Strand (1890-1976) remains a curiously shrouded and paradoxical figure. While passionately devoted to humanity, he was happiest in the isolation of the darkroom.
Director: John Walker | Stars: John Walker, Harvey Atkin, Blanche Brown, Milton Brown
Votes: 56
67. An American Journey (2009)
Not Rated | 58 min | Documentary, Biography, History
From Texas to Montana, from Nebraska to Louisiana, from New York to San Francisco, An American Journey is a 15,000 mile odyssey through contemporary America seeking to understand the impact... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Séclier
Votes: 21
68. William Eggleston in the Real World (2005)
87 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Michael Almereyda | Stars: William J. Eggleston, Michael Almereyda, Winston Eggleston, Leigh Haizlip
Votes: 277 | Gross: $0.04M
69. Blood Trail (2008)
Not Rated | 79 min | Documentary, War
Follows Robert King in his fifteen years as a war photographer.
Director: Richard Parry | Star: Robert King
Votes: 130
70. Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film (2002 TV Movie)
100 min | Documentary
An in depth study of Adams's life and work.
Director: Ric Burns | Stars: Ansel Adams, Josh Hamilton, Barbara Feldon, John Szarkowski
Votes: 166
72. Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 70 min | Documentary
In 2002, American photographer Tierney Gearon (1963- ), fresh from the disconcerting success of her 2001 exhibit at London's Saatchi Gallery, goes to upstate New York to begin a project ... See full summary »
Directors: Peter Sutherland, Jack Youngelson
Votes: 33
73. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
R | 116 min | Drama, War
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin
Votes: 790,725 | Gross: $46.36M
74. Paris, Texas (1984)
R | 145 min | Drama
Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Sam Berry
Votes: 119,080 | Gross: $2.18M
75. Smoke (1995)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
A Brooklyn smoke shop is the center of neighborhood activity, and the stories of its customers.
Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Giancarlo Esposito, José Zúñiga
Votes: 38,145 | Gross: $8.35M
76. The Women on the Roof (1989)
89 min | Drama
An innocent and beautiful teenage girl, Linnea takes a garret room in Stockholm just before WWI. She begins work for a dour older man, but soon meets an interesting young woman, Anna, a ... See full summary »
Director: Carl-Gustav Nykvist | Stars: Amanda Ooms, Helena Bergström, Stellan Skarsgård, Percy Brandt
Votes: 182
77. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
R | 99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody
Votes: 887,117 | Gross: $59.10M
78. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
The eccentric members of a dysfunctional family reluctantly gather under the same roof for various reasons.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller
Votes: 313,281 | Gross: $52.36M
79. The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A year after their father's funeral, three brothers travel across India by train in an attempt to bond with each other.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Amara Karan
Votes: 217,015 | Gross: $11.90M
80. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
R | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
With a plan to exact revenge on a legendary shark that killed his partner, oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife, a journalist, and a man who may or may not be his son.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston, Cate Blanchett
Votes: 211,008 | Gross: $24.01M
81. The City of Photographers (2006)
80 min | Documentary
A film about the fearless photographers and photojournalists who documented strikes, demonstrations, protests etc during the Chilean military regime of Augusto Pinochet, sometimes risking their very lives.
Director: Sebastián Moreno | Stars: Verónica De Negri, José Durán, Paz Errázuriz, Julia Garrido
Votes: 191
82. Road to Perdition (2002)
R | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A mob enforcer's son in 1930s Illinois witnesses a murder, forcing him and his father to take to the road, and his father down a path of redemption and revenge.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Tom Hanks, Tyler Hoechlin, Paul Newman
Votes: 284,603 | Gross: $104.45M
83. Stepmom (1998)
PG-13 | 125 min | Comedy, Drama
A terminally ill woman must deal with her ex-husband's new lover, who will be their children's stepmother.
Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Ed Harris, Jena Malone
Votes: 74,541 | Gross: $91.14M
84. Skyline (1983)
83 min | Comedy
A Spaniard photographer (Antonio Resines) goes to New York in an attempt of selling his work. Despite his broken English and his shyness, he meet two editors that could be interested in ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Colomo | Stars: Antonio Resines, Beatriz Pérez Porro, Roy Hoffman, Jaime Nos
Votes: 176
85. Shutter (I) (2008)
PG-13 | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.
Director: Masayuki Ochiai | Stars: Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor, James Kyson, Megumi Okina
Votes: 37,591 | Gross: $25.93M
86. In My Father's Den (2004)
R | 127 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A disillusioned war journalist's return home is blighted when he becomes implicated in the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl he has befriended.
Director: Brad McGann | Stars: Matthew Macfadyen, Miranda Otto, Emily Barclay, Colin Moy
Votes: 7,866
87. The Children of Huang Shi (2008)
R | 125 min | Drama, War
About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh
Votes: 9,985 | Gross: $1.03M
88. Francisco Boix, un fotógrafo en el infierno (2002)
55 min | Documentary
Documentary about the life of the Spanish photographer Francisco Boix (1920-1951), a communist militant who survived the Mauthausen death camp. His photographs served as incriminating evidence against the Nazis in the Nuremberg trials.
Director: Llorenç Soler | Stars: Manuel Alfonso, Pilar Atrián, Manuel Azaustre, Christina Bina
Votes: 30
89. Hard Candy (2005)
R | 104 min | Drama, Thriller
Hayley's a smart, charming teenage girl. Jeff's a handsome, smooth fashion photographer. An Internet chat, a coffee shop meet-up, an impromptu fashion shoot back at Jeff's place. Jeff thinks it's his lucky night. He's in for a surprise.
Director: David Slade | Stars: Patrick Wilson, Elliot Page, Sandra Oh, Odessa Rae
Votes: 168,124 | Gross: $1.01M
90. Johnny Skidmarks (1998)
R | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Johnny "Skidmark" Scardino is a free-lance crime-scene photographer and part-time blackmailer. When his associates begin to turn up murdered, he has a very short time to discover the killer before it is his turn.
Director: John Raffo | Stars: Peter Gallagher, Frances McDormand, John Lithgow, John Kapelos
Votes: 1,056
91. Paparazzi (2004)
PG-13 | 84 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A rising Hollywood actor decides to take personal revenge against a group of four persistent photographers to make them pay for almost causing a personal tragedy involving his wife and son.
Director: Paul Abascal | Stars: Cole Hauser, Robin Tunney, Dennis Farina, Daniel Baldwin
Votes: 15,696 | Gross: $15.71M
92. High Season (1987)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
The lives of an English expat photographer, her daughter, her player ex, a commie spy, a "00" agent and other English in Lindos, Rhodes, Greece.
Director: Clare Peploe | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, James Fox, Irene Papas, Sebastian Shaw
Votes: 468 | Gross: $1.13M
93. Scrapbooks from Africa and Beyond (1998 TV Movie)
Documentary
Directors: Guillaume Bonn, Jean-Claude Luyat | Stars: Aggie Amondyi, Murielle Amori, Prisca Arbonguilat, Peter Beard
Votes: 25
94. Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye (2003)
Not Rated | 72 min | Documentary, Biography
Artist Henri Cartier-Bresson comments on several of his photographs. One of the last films shot with the photographer, also featuring Robert Delpire, Elliott Erwitt, Isabelle Huppert, Josef Koudelka, Arthur Miller, and Ferdinando Scianna.
Director: Heinz Bütler | Stars: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alexander Brooks, Robert Delpire, Elliott Erwitt
Votes: 359 | Gross: $0.03M
95. Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
R | 104 min | Mystery, Thriller
A famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a killer.
Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif, Rene Auberjonois
Votes: 12,090 | Gross: $20.00M
96. Fidelity (2000)
166 min | Drama
A talented photographer who lands a lucrative job in Paris with a scandal-mongering tabloid and becomes romantically involved with an eccentric children's book publisher while resisting the sexual advances of another photographer.
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Pascal Greggory, Guillaume Canet, Magali Noël
Votes: 2,028
97. 5 Broken Cameras (2011)
Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary, War
A documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army.
Directors: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi | Stars: Emad Burnat, Soraya Burnat, Mohammed Burnat, Yasin Burnat
Votes: 6,647 | Gross: $0.11M
98. Everybody Street (2013)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Everybody Street" highlights the lives and work of New York's iconic street photographers and the unparalleled city that has inspired them for decades.
Director: Cheryl Dunn | Stars: Boogie, Martha Cooper, Bruce Davidson, Elliott Erwitt
Votes: 932
99. No me llames fotógrafo de guerra (2014 TV Movie)
70 min | Documentary
Director: Esther Vergara | Stars: David Airob, Samuel Aranda, Sandra Balsells, Manu Brabo
Votes: 15
100. Paparazzi (I) (1998)
Not Rated | 111 min | Comedy, Romance
At a football match, an unscrupulous photographer, Michel Verdier, takes pictures of a celebrity couple. Magazine editors go with the photos even though the dominant figure in them is a ... See full summary »
Director: Alain Berbérian | Stars: Patrick Timsit, Vincent Lindon, Catherine Frot, Isabelle Gélinas
Votes: 1,078
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