1. Biopic
A biopic of the legendary Paul Bellini, by Bellini, of Bellini, for Bellini.
2. Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna
A tribute to actresses, approaching their presence in and out the screen, humanizing the icons. From the Ukrainian Anna Sten to the French Anna Karina, we can see some close-up faces that marked the history of the cinema, and whose demand is more relevant than ever.
It has an average vote of 2.5 on TMDB.
3. Autorretrato (Autorretrato)
(Autorretrato)
4. Debra Paget, For Example
A video essay where the author presumes motivations and insights in a fictionalized biography regarding Debra Paget, a contract player for 20th-Century Fox whom they groomed and coached for stardom.
It has an average vote of 3.2 on TMDB.
5. Last Year in Dachau (L'Année dernière à Dachau)
Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais shot his film Last Year at Marienbad in 1960. Nearby is the Dachau concentration camp, where thousands of people were killed between 1933 and 1945. An essay about the present and the past, beauty and horror, life and death.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
6. Enrico Macias, de l'amour plein la tête (Enrico Macias, de l'amour plein la tête)
(Enrico Macias, de l'amour plein la tête)
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
7. My Name Is Jonah
What is the secret origin of this self-proclaimed 'real-life warrior, adventurer and musician'? How has he gained his tremendous cult following? Steel yourselves for a quest to explore how this enigmatic personality came to be and the powerful effect he has on all those he meets.
8. Martin und Hans
A fictional biography of Hollywood actors Martin Kosleck and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, both of whom fled Hitler-era Germany to live a long-lasting relationship.
It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.
9. Private Chronicles: Monologue (Частные хроники. Монолог)
The collective life of the generation born as Jurij Gagarin became the first man in space. Vitaly Mansky has woven together a fictional biography – taken from over 5.000 hours of film material, and 20.000 still pictures made for home use. A moving document of the fictional, but nonetheless true life of the generation who grew up in this time of huge change and upheaval.
10. Rope’s End
A fictionalized biography on John Dall who was in two great movies - Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope and Joseph H. Lewis’ Gun Crazy .
It has an average vote of 1.5 on TMDB.
11. Chris Elliott's FDR -- A One-Man Show
Chris Elliot plays FDR in his live "One Man Show" about the life and times of the president, however, he looks and sounds nothing like the man and he re-enacts events from Roosevelt's life that never happened.
12. Ueli Steck – Auf schmalem Grat (Ueli Steck – Auf schmalem Grat)
Deceased but not forgotten. In 2017, Switzerland's most famous mountaineer, "Swiss Machine" Ueli Steck, fell to his death in the Himalayas when he was just 40 years old. Three close friends travel again to the Everest region where he died. His family in Emmental has to deal with premature death.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
13. Rock Hudson's Home Movies
In this revisionist documentary, actor Eric Farr re-creates the character of Rock Hudson in order to take a look back at his films. It compares the actor's screen image with his real life and shows certain scenes, lines and situations in his films to insinuate that Hudson may have been gay.
It has an average vote of 3.5 on TMDB.
14. Le Mozart Noir: Reviving a Legend
Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges overcame class and race prejudices in 18th century France to become a musical genius who would inspire Mozart.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
15. The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey
Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stendhal was overwhelmed by the cultural overstimulation in Florence, which Graziella Magherini described scientifically in 1979 as Stendhal syndrome. Mark Rappaport describes his fascination for the Austrian actor Turhan Bey, who made a career in exotic roles in Hollywood in the 1940s. A very personal essay about the effect of close-ups, the canvas idols of the dream factory and the role of their admirers and fans.
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
16. My Mexican Bretzel (My Mexican Bretzel)
Lies are just another way of telling the truth. The desire to believe is the hand of the man hanging from a cliff and clinging to the only stone that would seem to save him. But he always ends up falling because the stone is a mirage, just as the cliff is. Death is awakening from this dream in which the essential can be said and in which the continuous and infinite has a beginning, an end and a meaning.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
17. Great
An animated film about the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who spearheaded numerous engineering marvels of the early 19th century - including the Thames Tunnel, the Great Western Railway, and the Great Eastern steamship . Various styles of animation are used to depict events in his colorful life.
It has an average vote of 5.593 on TMDB.
18. Phantom Thread
In 1950s London, renowned British dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock comes across Alma, a young, strong-willed woman, who soon becomes ever present in his life as his muse and lover.
It has an average vote of 7.313 on TMDB.
19. La última gira (La última gira)
Legendary singer Daniel Santos lives in Ocala, Florida, and prepares his biography with Secre, a young journalist. The memory of past glories makes him embark on one more adventure: a tour of South American countries where he was known as “El Jefe” and where he expects to be yet again acclaimed and applauded.
20. Emily
The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. Explore the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman and her care for her maverick brother whom she idolises.
It has an average vote of 6.987 on TMDB.
