1. Quiet Storm: The Ron Artest Story
In the world of professional sports, no American athlete ever came back from a mental health disorder....until Ron Artest, now known to the world as Metta World Peace.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
2. Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana
Florida, 1994. Artist Mike Diana is convicted on an obscenity charge in the wake of an undercover police officer purchasing his limited edition zine Boiled Angel. Here is the very unusual story of what led to this First Amendment debacle happening for the first time in the United States.
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
3. To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
Documentary feature about Czech director Jiří Menzel, featuring Menzel himself as well as Miloš Forman, Emir Kusturica, István Szabó and others.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
4. Adios Amor
In Adios Amor, the discovery of lost photographs sparks the search for a hero that history forgot—Maria Moreno, a migrant mother driven to speak out by her twelve children’s hunger. Years before Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta launched the United Farm Workers, Maria picked up the only weapon she had—her voice—and became an outspoken leader in an era when women were relegated to the background. The first farm worker woman in America to be hired as a union organizer, Maria’s story was silenced and her legacy buried—until now.
5. Champions Factory: New Zealand's Black Blood (Champions Factory: New Zealand's Black Blood)
(Champions Factory: New Zealand's Black Blood)
6. The Real McCoy (The Real McCoy)
Rock musician Andy McCoy, formerly of Hanoi Rocks, takes us on a "trip" through his mind, memories and imagination. Documentaries, real life and Mr. McCoy's acid mind intertwine to form an interesting experience.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
7. This Is Francis X. Bushman
Documentary about the life of silent film star Francis X. Bushman
8. Klimt & Schiele: Eros and Psyche (Klimt & Schiele: Eros e Psiche)
1918. As the roar of the First World War cannons is dying out, in Vienna, the heart of Central Europe, a golden age comes to an end. The Austro-Hungarian Empire is beginning to disintegrate. On the night of October 31st, in the bed of his home, Egon Schiele dies, one of the 20 million deaths caused by the Spanish flu. He dies looking at the invisible evil in the face, in the only he can do: painting it. He is 28 years old. Only a few months earlier, the main hall of the Secession building had welcomed his works: 19 oil paintings and 29 drawings. His first successful exhibition, a celebration of a new painting idea that portrays the restlessness and desires of mankind.A few months earlier, his teacher and friend Gustav Klimt had died. From the turn of the century, he had fundamentally changed the feeling of art and founded a new group: the Secession.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
9. Escapes
Escapes blazes a path through mid-20th-century Hollywood via the experiences of Hampton Fancher – flamenco dancer, actor, and the unlikely producer and screenwriter of the landmark sci-fi classic Blade Runner. Fancher recounts episodes from his life — romantic misadventures with silver-screen stars, wayward acts of chivalry, jealousy, and friendship — matched with a parallel world of film and TV footage wherein Fancher plays cowboys, killers, fops, cads, and the occasional hero. Escapes shows how one man’s personal journey can unexpectedly shape a medium’s future.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
10. Respectable: The Mary Millington Story
Documentary chronicling the extraordinary life and tragic death of Mary Millington - Britain's most famous pornographic actress of the 1970s.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
11. Ken and Rosa
Documentary about Ken Loach and Rosa Ayala, a janitor who worked as an extra in the picture 'Bread and Roses'
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
12. David Hockney: Joiner Photographs
David Hockney is unquestionably one of the most passionate and versatile experimental artists on the contemporary scene. In the late 1970s the British artist developed a pioneering concept which also changed his perspective on painting – his “joiners”. In this film, the artist himself talks about this photographic approach, a kind of Cubism-inspired photocollage which explores the space-time continuum. Hockney allows the viewer to share in the creative “joiner” process and leads us step by step into the universe of his artistic creativity.
13. Gérard Jugnot, une vie de comédies (Gérard Jugnot, une vie de comédies)
(Gérard Jugnot, une vie de comédies)
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
14. The First Motion of the Immovable (Le Premier Mouvement de l'immobile)
It all begins with a childhood memory: that day when the father of the future filmmaker Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva forces him to listen to certain music that initially terrifies him; a distant echo from the past that leads him to follow the trail of his mysterious ancestor, the Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi , who claimed that his music was directly inspired by the gods.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
15. What Really Happened: Votes for Women
It's 1892 and Kate Sheppard tells the story of the suffrage campaign - a pursuit that will continue until September 1893.
16. Meaning of Robots
This short film profiles the benevolent Mike Sullivan, who has been in the process of shooting a stop-motion robot sex film in his New York City apartment for the last ten years. Obsessed with the meticulous construction of the miniature robot porn stars, his apartment now overflows with thousands, leaving him only tiny paths to navigate and no place to film his epic.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
17. Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman (Le Manuscrit sauvé du KGB)
The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman and his novel Life and Fate , a literary masterpiece, a monumental and epic account of life under Stalin's regime of terror, a defiant cry that the KGB tried to suffocate.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
18. Wordsworth Country
A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.
19. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true "free lance, " goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity, and a steel-eyed conviction for writing wrongs. Focusing on the good doctor's heyday, 1965 to 1975, the film includes clips of never-before-seen home movies, audiotapes, and passages from unpublished manuscripts.
It has an average vote of 6.934 on TMDB.
20. I Am JFK Jr.
I Am JFK Jr. - A Tribute to a Good Man is an homage to America's fallen prince and the Kennedy legacy. It is the story of a young man destined for greatness, but determined to be good in a world filled with high expectations.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
