What happened to those vedettes who represented the mexican cabaret’s exotic beauty in the ‘70s and ‘80s? Four decades after the end of their roles, they tell their stories with dignity.

A Thirsty World

2012

French

7.6

♡ 10

Action

destruction of planet

Thierry Piantanida Director

Vandana Shiva as Self

Catarina de Albuquerque as Self

Today, against a backdrop of sharply increasing demand, growth in the world population and the growing impact of an unsettled climate, water has become one of the most precious natural resources of our planet.

The Beginning of Life 2: Outside

7.4

Renata Terra Director

Genuine connections between children and nature can revolutionize our future. But is this discovery still possible in the world's major urban centers? The new chapter of "The Beginning of Life" reveals the transformative power of this concept.

Time

2020

English

6.8

♡ 8

98%

prison industrial complex

release from prison

social documentary

woman director

Garrett Bradley Director

Mahlik Richardson as Self

Robert Fox Richardson II as Self

Laurence Mathews Richardson as Self

Peggy V. Autrey as Self

Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together while fighting for the release of her incarcerated husband. An intimate, epic, and unconventional love story, filmed over two decades.

The Other Side

2015

English

6.7

♡ 3

Roberto Minervini Director

Austin Anderson as

James Lee Miller as Jim

Lisa Allen as Lisa

Mark Kelley as Mark

In an invisible territory at the margins of society, at the border between anarchy and illegality, lives a wounded community that is trying to respond to a threat: of being forgotten by political institutions and having their rights as citizens trampled. Disarmed veterans, taciturn adolescents, drug addicts trying to escape addiction through love, ex-special forces soldiers still at war with the world, floundering young women and future mothers, and old people who have not lost their desire to live. Through this hidden pocket of humanity, the door opens to the abyss of today's America.

One Child Left Behind: The APS Teaching Scandal

2020

English

6.3

♡ 2

Action

Documentary

documentary filmmaking

education

scandal

social documentary

Jodi Gomes Director

Diane Ravitch as

Lamar Waldron as

Gerald Griggs as Self

In 2009, 1,176 Atlanta teachers were investigated for test cheating; 35 were indicted, 12 went to trial and 11 were found guilty on RICO charges, which are typically reserved for the mafia and drug lords. The guilty, serving 30-year sentences, finally break their silence in this tell-all, controversial film that takes a closer look at the legislations called No Child Left Behind, the politics behind it, and a race and power struggle that spawned one of the most complex scandals in American history.

Risky Drinking

6.6

relationship problems

social documentary

Perri Peltz Director

Amanda Mount as

Healthy Emmie as Nutritionist

Rhonda Baber Crone as Self

Are you a risky drinker? Nearly 70% of American adults drink alcohol and nearly 1/3 of them engage in problem drinking at some point in their lives. Produced with The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), Risky Drinking is a no-holds-barred look at a national epidemic through the intimate stories of four people whose drinking dramatically affects their relationships.

The Spirit of '45

2013

English

7.1

♡ 1

67%

Ken Loach Director

Mark Womack as (voice)

Kate Hardie as (voice)

Trevor Fox as (voice)

Jamie Michie as (voice)

How the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society.

How Did We Get Here?

2022

English

7.0

♡ 8

Tucker Prescott Director

Seán McLoughlin as Self

Arin Hanson as Self

John-Peter Hasson as Self

Florrie McLoughlin as Self

Seán McLoughlin was a lonely kid in rural Ireland. Now, he’s Jacksepticeye, one of the world’s biggest YouTube stars. When he embarks on his first world tour, Seán contemplates his journey, his upbringing, and the nature of modern online celebrity and fandom as he meets the people across the world who changed his life and whose lives he’s changed with his videos and the community they’ve built.

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

2021

English

7.9

♡ 9

93%

Robert B. Weide Director

Eugene Roche as Edgar Derby

Jon Stewart as Self

Sam Waterston as Self

Linda Bates as Self

A documentary 33 years in the making. A director and friend of Kurt Vonnegut seeks through his archives to create the first film featuring the revolutionary late writer.

HyperNormalisation

2016

English

8.2

♡ 6

77%

Adam Curtis Director

Bill Clinton as Self - President of the US

Nancy Reagan as Self - Ronald Reagan's Wife

Vladimir Putin as Self - Russia Leader

Henry Kissinger as Self - US Secretary of State

We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing, and nothing ever changes. It is normal. Welcome to the post-truth world. How we got to where we are now…

Beautiful Something Left Behind

2020

English

7.5

♡ 2

94%

Katrine Philp Director Corey

Corey as Self Peter

Peter as Self Kaitlyn

Kaitlyn as Self Kimmy

Kimmy as Self

In New Jersey, the Good Grief community focuses on a holistic way of dealing with grief, where children can give in to rage in ‘the volcano room,' and say goodbye to a dying teddy bear patient in ‘the hospital room.' Over the course of a year, we follow the weekly meetings and get close to Kimmy, Nicky, Peter, Nora, Nolan, and Mikayla and their close companion: grief. It is sometimes heartbreaking, but also humorous, to experience the questions about life and death through their open and curious minds. Grief is high and heavy as a mountain, but it helps you understand what has happened, and that death is irreversible.

The Biggest Little Farm

2018

English

8.0

♡ 23

91%

John Chester Director

Joshua Nelson as Self Emma

Emma as Self, formerly known Rosie

Rosie as Self, livestock guardian dog Caya

Caya as Self, livestock guardian dog

The successes and failures of a couple determined to live in harmony with nature on a farm outside of Los Angeles are lovingly chronicled by filmmaking farmer John Chester, in this inspiring documentary.

Lead Me Home

2021

English

6.3

♡ 3

100%

Poignant stories of homelessness on the West Coast of the US frame this cinematic portrait of a surging humanitarian crisis.

Civil: Ben Crump

2022

English

5.9

♡ 2

88%

political documentary

social documentary

victim

Nadia Hallgren Director

Jesse Jackson as Self

Al Sharpton as Self

Gayle King as Self

Helen Crump as Self

Crump's mission to raise the value of Black life as the civil lawyer for the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Black farmers and banking while Black victims, Crump challenges America to come to terms with what it owes his clients.

Writing with Fire

2021

Hindi

7.3

♡ 2

100%

Sushmit Ghosh Director

Meera Devi as Self

Shyamkali Devi as Self

Suneeta Prajapati as Self

In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions on the frontlines of India’s biggest issues and within the confines of their own homes, redefining what it means to be powerful.

Lord of the Toys

6.6

Pablo Ben Yakov Director

Max 'Adlersson' Herzberg as Self

Maximiliane Häcke as (voice)

Max "Adlersson" Herzberg, 20 years of age, from Dresden decided not to spend his life working. Ever since, he reviews knives and other products, unboxes limited fan editions of mainly gangsta rap albums, gives talks about himself, drinks, swears and bawls in town, humiliates others, cracks borderline jokes and crosses every boundary he sees - Max is a YouTube creator and makes a decent living off of it. Most of Max's friends have their own channels on YouTube, some even quite successfully. Max and his gang are dubious role models but without a doubt, they are celebrities of their generation having more than 300.000 active fans. Is Max a violence-glorifying influencer with far-right tendencies or a usual adolescent, just trying to find himself and happens to be born into a time where the lines between private life and public self-display are blurring? He might be both, possibly without being overly aware of it.

VHS Revolution

2017

French

6.7

♡ 8

Dimitri Kourtchine Director

Jane Fonda as Self

Tom Brokaw as Self - NBC Nightly News Anchor

Joe Pickett as Self - VHS Collector, 'Found Footage Festival'

Donovan Brandt as Self - Video Store Owner

Using testimonies by pioneers and witnesses of the times, delve into the feverish visual culture the media generated – with far-fetched examples of canine television games, seduction manuals, aerobics class while holding a baby, among others.