1. Class Divide
A look at NYC’s gentrification and growing inequality in a microcosm, Class Divide explores two distinct worlds that share the same Chelsea intersection – 10th Avenue and 26th Street. On one side of the avenue, the Chelsea-Elliot Houses have provided low-income public housing to residents for decades. Their neighbor across the avenue since 2012 is Avenues: The World School, a costly private school. What happens when kids from both of these worlds attempt to cross the divide?
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
2. Christiane F. und die Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (Christiane F. und die Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo)
(Christiane F. und die Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo)
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
3. Mirror, Mirror
Portrait of the last year of the life of famous New York drag queen Consuela Cosmetic.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
4. Land Without Bread (Las Hurdes)
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
5. Megacities
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
It has an average vote of 6.861 on TMDB.
6. Young Man on the Bar Masturbating with Rage and Nerve (Muchacho en la barra se masturba con rabia y osadía)
Dance and prostitution play the same role for Cristhian’s body. Virtuosity, desire, technique, and sex intertwine, granting coherence to a way of life that offers many answers to few questions. A leitmotiv that reconciles opposites and contradictions. Answers that are sometimes painful, like all truths.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
7. May I Be Happy
Through poetic cinematography and stories of teachers sharing their wisdom with children from a range of backgrounds, the film showcases the benefits of mindfulness as a way out of violence and suffering, and as an attainable solution for younger generations.
8. The Tortoise and the Hare (Kilpkonn ja jänes)
A story of a mother and her son and a race against a tortoise where you always lose.
9. Burning Field
There are thousands of people working as scrap workers in Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana, and Abdallah is one of them. Like the majority, Abdallah is from the northern part of the country and behind him, there is a big family awaits support. The air pollution caused by the open burning of electronic scraps has raised Muntaka’s concern, who is trying to stop them from burning…
10. SpeedfreakS: Psicopata Camarada (SpeedfreakS: Psicopata Camarada)
A documentary on the life and work of Brazilian rapper Cláudio Márcio de Sousa Santos, aka Speedfreak$.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
11. Holly Hood: Shameless
Behind-the-scenes footage of portuguese rapper Holly Hood's last tour.
12. Pay-Off In Pain
The personal and social tragedy of drug addiction with its evil accompaniment, drug traffic. Over the side of the silent liner in the darkness slips the package of smuggled narcotics, introducing us to the complex problem which involves all races and classes of man. We see many aspects of addiction - the addict preparing an injection, a group waiting tensely for their dope peddler; agents preparing and adulterating the illegal product; the police catching a pusher red-handed. International and national authorities are working from two angles - suppression of the illicit traffic; and where possible, rehabilitation of the addict.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
13. En la boca del Bajío (En la boca del Bajío)
Nolo, a young skater, shows us how skateboarding survives and develops in Celaya, Guanajuato, one of the most dangerous cities in the world.
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
14. Landfall (Landfall)
Hurricane María abated, the news crews packed up and left Puerto Rico, and the interest of the international community turned elsewhere. What happened next?
15. Frau Mercedes (Frau Mercedes)
In Bern, Madame Mercedes has been working for 35 years in her car as a prostitute. An intimate and subtle portrait about ageing as a prostitute, a documentary about a vanishing chapter of habits in Switzerland.
16. Guaicurus Street (Rua Guaicurus)
A red-light district in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The camera is admitted into a "running house". Love for sale looks like a routine, dreary assembly line exercise here, sometimes almost like a comedy.
It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.
17. Czech RAPublic (Česká RAPublika)
First documentary about the Czech hip hop scene shows how close the Czech rap can come to humour and irony. Three protagonists of the film, James Cole, Hugo Toxxx and Orion appear in situations where they are confronted with a professor of linguistics, children of a Romany quarter, a strict birth registry clerk, classical music trio, a statute of national revival hero Josef Jungmann, and the chanson singer Hana Hegerova, with whom they have a chance to sing the national anthem: "mimino mi mele nohu máma mele maso a máma mele sele kde domov můj?"
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
18. Oscuro brillante (Oscuro brillante)
The life of Mrs. Bertha Sánchez has changed because of a virus that threatens the world. She, locked in her home, adapts to the important change and the challenge that society suffers. She finally finds a balance in her routine between what appears to be a dark reality and a bright learning opportunity.
19. The children trapped in Bangladesh's brothel village
Daulatdia is an entire village in Bangladesh dedicated to prostitution. Every day, 1,600 trafficked, enslaved and abandoned women and girls sell themselves for £2 a time. In the midst of the trade live 300 children, many born in the village. Some will be groomed to be the future of the business like their mothers and grandmothers. With education programmes and support provided by Save The Children, a few may find their way out.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
20. Mother
Mother compiles clips of mother figures from classic Hollywood cinema and television dramas. The figures range from the Virgin Mary and Mother Courage, to characters from Maude , Aliens , Imitation of Life , and American Gangster . The characters play out scenes of care, loss, emotional manipulation, abandonment, and grief. The intense relationships between mothers and daughters are especially prominent.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
