The residents of Malegaon look to Bollywood cinema for a much-needed escape from daily drudgery. Amateur filmmaker Nasir Shaikh gets inspired to make a film for the people of Malegaon, by the people of Malegaon. He bands together his ragtag group of friends to bring his vision to life, thereby bringing a fresh lease of life into the town.

The Harder They Come

1972

English

6.8

♡ 9

91%

Perry Henzell Director

Don Topping as DJ

Franco Nero as Django

Janet Bartley as Elsa

Jimmy Cliff as Ivanhoe "Ivan" Martin

Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. He records his first song, "The Harder They Come," but after a bitter dispute with a manipulative producer named Hilton, soon finds himself resorting to petty crime in order to pay the bills. He deals marijuana, kills some abusive cops and earns local folk hero status. Meanwhile, his record is topping the charts.

In Like Flynn

2018

English

5.2

♡ 18

50%

based on memoir or autobiography

Russell Mulcahy Director

Timothy V. Murphy as Frank

Dan Fogler as Joel Schwartz

Lochlyn Munro as Ronald

Nathan Jones as The Mountain

A mostly true account of future Hollywood star Errol Flynn's sea adventures in the early thirties, sailing from Australia to Papua in search of gold, along with his best friend Rex, a former Canadian smuggler; Dook, a handy English gentleman; and Charlie, a grumpy old sailor.

Arrebato

1979

Spanish

6.8

♡ 12

ex-boyfriend ex-girlfriend relationship

Iván Zulueta Director

Cecilia Roth as Ana Turner

Pedro Almodóvar as Gloria

Marta Fernández Muro as Marta

Luis Ciges as Portero

José Sirgado is a low-budget filmmaker whose heroin addiction distorts his perspective of the real world. Although he is a depressed and unstable individual, his mood improves when he receives the mysterious films of Pedro, with whom he shares his passion for cinema.

The Day of the Locust

1975

English

6.9

♡ 11

63%

75%

Action

actress

based on novel or book

John Schlesinger Director

Billy Barty as Abe

David Ladd as Apprentice

Paul Stewart as Helverston

Norman Leavitt as Mr. Odlesh

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.

Dark Star: HR Gigers Welt

2014

German

6.9

♡ 2

Belinda Sallin Director Müggi

Müggi as Self

Paul Tobler as Self

Carmen Vega as Self Al Holt

Al Holt as Self

An account of the life and work of Swiss painter, sculptor, architect and designer H. R. Giger (1940-2014), tormented father of creatures as fearsome as they are fascinating, inhabitants of nightmarish biomechanical worlds.

RKO 281

1999

English

7.0

♡ 8

92%

Benjamin Ross Director

Lucy Cohu as Dolores Del Rio

John Malkovich as Herman Mankiewicz

Neil Conrich as Mr. Thomson

Liev Schreiber as Orson Welles

In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the purpose of making his first film.

Trespassing Bergman

2013

English

7.2

♡ 5

81%

Jane Magnusson Director

Ingrid Bergman as Self

Bibi Andersson as Self

Robert De Niro as Self - Interviewee

Lena Olin as Self - Interviewee

In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockholm to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special film buffs, came from all over the world, travel to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy. (An abridged version of Bergman's Video, 2012.)

The Morricone Duel

2018

English

8.4

♡ 8

The ruthless gangsters of New York and the rough cowboys of the dusty prairie; the magic of cinema and the rich sound of a symphony orchestra. The Danish National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sarah Hicks, performs masterful pieces by legendary film composer Ennio Morricone, accompanied by Sonny Bono, Bernard Herrmann and Nino Rota.

Tales of the Uncanny

2020

English

6.9

♡ 7

David Gregory Director

Joe Dante as Self

Kier-La Janisse as Self

Ant Timpson as Self

Larry Fessenden as Self

A detailed look at the history of horror anthology films.

Vigo

1998

English

6.0

♡ 2

Julien Temple Director

James Faulkner as Dr. Gerard

Diana Quick as Emily

Anna Wilson-Jones as Genya Lozinska

Vernon Dobtcheff as Papa Lozinska

Based on the life of a classic french cineast Jean Vigo, the story follows his daily struggle with sanity, normal life and uncompromising filmmaking. Story also focuses on his relationship with his supporting wife whom he met in sanatorium.

Herederos de la bestia

2016

Spanish

6.4

♡ 4

Diego López Director

Santiago Segura as Self - Interviewee

Álex de la Iglesia as Self - Interviewee

Saturnino García as Self - Interviewee

Andrés Vicente Gómez as Self - Interviewee

The story of the making and subsequent success of The Day of the Beast, the Spanish cult film directed by Álex de la Iglesia and released in 1995.

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

2021

English

7.6

♡ 15

100%

Kier-La Janisse Director

Emma Tammi as Self

Ian Ogilvy as Self

Kier-La Janisse as Self

Alice Lowe as Self

An exploration of the cinematic history of the folk horror, from its beginnings in the UK in the late sixties; through its proliferation on British television in the seventies and its many manifestations, culturally specific, in other countries; to its resurgence in the last decade.

My Week with Marilyn

2011

English

6.9

♡ 44

82%

71%

Action

based on novel or book

husband wife relationship

movie business

platonic love

Sport

Simon Curtis Director

Dougray Scott as Arthur Miller

Eddie Redmayne as Colin Clark

Emma Watson as Lucy

Kenneth Branagh as Sir Laurence Olivier

London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe. Young Colin Clark, who dreams on having a career in movie business, manages to get a job on the set as third assistant director.

Straight to VHS

2021

Spanish

5.8

♡ 2

portrait of a filmmaker

portrait of an artist

semi-documentary

Emilio Silva Torres Director

Alfonso Tort as

Roxana Blanco as

Manuel Lamas as Self

María Inés Pelfort as Tarotist

Act of Violence Upon a Young Journalist is a film shot in 1988 and released on VHS in 1989; a mysterious cult work of Uruguayan cinema surrounded by strange theories about Manuel Lamas, its unknown creator. Until now.

Mifune: The Last Samurai

2015

English

7.2

♡ 12

83%

inspired by novel or book

japan

Steven Okazaki Director

Toshirô Mifune as (archive footage)

Keanu Reeves as Narrator

Martin Scorsese as Self

Steven Spielberg as Self

An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.

Cinema Novo

2016

Portuguese

7.2

♡ 6

100%

Eryk Rocha Director

Glauber Rocha as Self

Nelson Pereira dos Santos as Self

Ruy Guerra as Self

Paulo César Saraceni as Self

A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.

The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

2021

English

6.3

92%

portrait of an artist

propaganda

russian history

soviet union history

Bill Morrison Director

Mikhail Zharov as (archive footage)

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective (Деревенский детектив), a 1969 Soviet film—, caught in the nets of an Icelandic trawler, is the first step in a fascinating journey through the artistic life of film and stage actor Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov (1899-1981), icon and star of an entire era of Russian cinema.

I Am Richard Pryor

2019

English

6.7

♡ 3

88%

husband wife relationship

movie business

Jesse James Miller Director

Michael Schultz as

Sandra Bernhard as Self

Isaac Hayes as Self

Henry Jaglom as Self

The life story of Richard Pryor (1940-2005), the legendary performer and iconic social satirist who transcended racial and social barriers with his honest, irreverent and biting humor.

Collections

Sort

View

Search

A.K.

Superboys of Malegaon

The Harder They Come

In Like Flynn

Arrebato

The Day of the Locust

Dark Star: HR Gigers Welt

RKO 281

Trespassing Bergman

The Morricone Duel

Tales of the Uncanny

Vigo

Herederos de la bestia

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

My Week with Marilyn

Straight to VHS

Mifune: The Last Samurai

Cinema Novo

The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

I Am Richard Pryor