1. Punky Night at Hinton St. George (Punky Night at Hinton St. George)
Children parade through the streets of Hinton St George in Somerset on the last Thursday of October. Children have hollowed out pumpkins or mangelwurzels, a type of animal fodder turnip to make lanterns following a tradition in this part of West Somerset that coincides with Halloween. Punky or Punkie Night is thought to date from the turn of the 20th century or perhaps medieval times chanting rhymes and following a Punkie King and Queen.
2. We are a conversation
We are a conversation is a 2014 documentary directed by Alexis karpouzos and Spyros rasidakis and written by Alexis karpouzos exploring the unity of humanity, featuring poets from around the world, whose lives have been dedicated to explore the mysteries of life and existence.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
3. Champagne
The true story of a young teenage girl whose mother is incarcerated for murder. Living in a Catholic Children's home run by an order of nuns, she provides poignant commentary about her mother, her own situation and her outlook for the future.
4. My Paradise Is Darker Than Your Hell (Moje nebe je horší než tvoje peklo)
Theatre director Jan Kačena poisoned himself in 2019 by inhaling fumes and suffered irreversible brain damage. While his partner makes a film as a declaration of love, he lies unconscious. In the film, the director follows moments in the everyday lives of three people close to him: Czech rapper Tyler Durden, painter Tadeáš Pochman and film director Helena Papírníková. In a naturalistic way, it captures drug addiction, self-destructive tendencies and family problems, which are the subject of intimate, often uncomfortable conversations. The result is a diary-style probe into the fate of the artistic bohemia of late capitalism.
5. Lolita : méprise sur un fantasme (Lolita : méprise sur un fantasme)
A fresh new look at Lolita, the famous and controversial novel published in 1955 by Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov , a masterpiece of English-language literature that has been constantly misinterpreted by countless readers who have mistakenly turned its young heroine into an erotic icon.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
6. La Ferme des Bertrand (La Ferme des Bertrand)
1972 in Haute-Savoie : the Bertrand's farm, with a hundred dairy cows owned by three bachelor brothers, is filmed for the first time. In 1997, they were the subject of Gilles Perret's first movie, as they let their farm to their nephew Patrick and his wife Hélène. Nowadays, 25 years later, Gilles Perret take another look at this farm, managed by Hélène who will step down. Through their words, an intimate, social and economic history of the rural world.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
7. Fuck
A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
8. Do Lado de Fora (Do Lado de Fora)
(Do Lado de Fora)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
9. how much is it uncomfortable for dogs to step out on a highway? (Za jak dlouho začnou pejska pálit tlapičky když vystoupí na dálnici)
The primary motif of the documentary is the journey. A metaphorical journey, a spiritual journey, a tangible journey, a forest path, a road, a sidewalk, a drug trip, or a journey abroad. The director pastes together a collage of micro-stories of people and places that comment on the journey. Her documentary oscillates between playful absurdism, existentialism and existential questions, environmentalism, and social commentary. The dynamism and rhythm of the narrative are then determined by the jumps between different forms of video, such as analogue film, digital film, and mobile phone filming.
10. Happy Pills (Happy Pills)
A journey through six different countries and characters into a world where chemistry is the ultimate response to human pursuits of well-being.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
11. Passportless Mess (Legenda bez pasoše)
An idiot for some, a genius for others. Zoran is an urban legend of a Serbian block of flats who allegedly travelled the whole world without a single ID on him. After that, he went nuts due to politics, war and MDMA. “I saw it with my own naked eye,” nodded a half-blind old man. Though a clear answer to the question who Zoran really was is not to be expected at the end of this semi-serious manhunt, it is more than sure that even if he did not exist, the locals must have had to think him up.
12. Artists on Board (Artists on Board)
In 2019, this short film documentaries the daily of severals subway artists in the stations of Rio de Janeiro
13. Creature of the Sun (Sluneční Stvoření)
Childlike imagination, naive playfulness and an enchanted view of the world are at the centre of this poetic film. The child protagonists talk about their dreams, fantasies and experiences while touching on metaphysical questions of body and soul, life and death. Magic permeates every frame of this colourful collage.
14. VALE TUDO (VALE TUDO)
Lucia "Pretty Beast" Krajčovič is a 34-year-old professional MMA fighter and mother of two children. Shortly after giving birth, she is determined to become a champion in both disciplines - sport and motherhood. With a baby in her arms, she is preparing for her next fight. Under the immense pressure of her two identities, exhausted from lack of sleep, she wrestles with a question to which she had a clear answer not long ago. How to be both Pretty and Beast and for how much longer?
15. My Transgender Kid
Two British families discuss the challenges they face raising children who identify as a gender different from the one they were assigned at birth.
It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.
16. DEADLINE (DEADLINE)
Documentary on death with participation of philosophers, scientists and artists. Guest star, alexis karpouzos.
17. The Society of the Spectacle (La Société du spectacle)
Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
18. A French Revolution (Un Peuple)
October 2018, France. Macron’s government decrees a tax increase on the price of fuel. A wave of protests starts to grow. Citizens mobilize throughout the country: this is the beginning of the Yellow Vests movement. In Chartres, a group of men and women gather daily. Among them, Agnès, Benoît, Nathalie and Allan commit themselves to the collective struggle. Like a whole nation, they discover that they have a voice to be heard...
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
19. Ľudia a telefon (Ľudia a telefon)
(Ľudia a telefon)
20. Lead Me Home
Poignant stories of homelessness on the West Coast of the US frame this cinematic portrait of a surging humanitarian crisis.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.