1. How to Cook Your Life
A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday life.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
2. The Halt (Полустанок)
Trains travel through the night without stopping. The clatter of the carriages quickly disappears, along with the wail of the locomotive. The people at the station are all asleep. But why are they so exhausted ? And what are they waiting for? Set inside an isolated train depot, The Train Station is one of Sergei Loznitsa's most haunting films. It is also one of his most pointed social critiques. In this film, we are brought to a remote train station deep in the Russian woods. It's nighttime. In the distance, we hear the clatter of locomotives. The station, a small wooden building, sits silently, surrounded only by snow and train tracks.
It has an average vote of 4.9 on TMDB.
3. Displaced (Pa vend)
After Kosovo's independence the first internationally recognized sports federation was the one of Table Tennis. Two local Ping-Pong enthusiasts see this as a great opportunity and start self-financing the training sessions for young players.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
4. Cat in the Eastern Palace (东宫吸猫)
Su Jin meets Li'er. As their bond grows, the weight of Su Jin being the crowned prince and Li'er as a cat spirit grows heavy.
5. Michael Palin & the Mystery of Hammershøi
In 2005, Michael Palin set out to unlock the mysteries and find out about the background and life of Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi. Hammershøi painted around the start of the 20th century and many of his pictures have a distinct coolness and distance about them. Palin, wanting to know of his inspirations and the reason for these mystical pictures, starts his search in Hayward Gallery in London, goes to Amsterdam and finally the painters home town, Copenhagen .
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
6. Transplant
What does it feel like to be a stranger in a country that you’ve lived in for twenty years? Two rootless and tenacious Chinese immigrants, Quan and Fen, try to find a home in each other on foreign soil.
7. Sunday Dinner: DMV
This documentary film is a celebration of Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia and the Black artists driving music culture forward.
8. America; I Too
Young muralist Manny is arrested after being wrongfully accused of tagging his very own mural. In police custody, he learns that he was ordered removed back in 2008 due to his undocumented immigration status and that his name came up in the "gang database." Manny insists that he was nine years old in 2008, unaware of any pending deportation, and certainly not a part of any gang. When he refuses to sign a voluntary departure Manny is sent into detention.
It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.
9. Users Are Losers
Educational film about the dangers of drug use and abuse in high school. Framed around the death of a classmate from overdose.
10. Around the End of the World (Autour de la fin du monde)
An 18-minute silent documentary on the making of the 1931 Abel Gance directed film, "La Fin Du Monde".
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
11. Pop Goes the Easel
Pop Goes the Easel was Ken Russell’s first full-length documentary for the BBC’s arts series Monitor. It focused on 4 British Pop Artists - Peter Blake, Peter Philips, Pauline Boty and Derek Boshier.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
12. David Lynch: The Art Life
An intimate journey through the formative years of David Lynch's life. From his idyllic upbringing in small town America to the dark streets of Philadelphia, we follow Lynch as he traces the events that have helped to shape one of cinema's most enigmatic directors.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
13. Forward, Comrades (前进，达瓦里希)
A young girl who treated her pets as comrades and liked to play with construction blocks, experiences her life changing after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
14. Shark Land: Welcome to Cocos Island
“Entourage” star Adrian Grenier ventures to Cocos Island off the shore of Costa Rica to bring attention to the plight of endangered sharks who are being threatened by poachers and ocean pollution.
15. Wigstock: The Movie
The original documentary on the Wigstock festival, back in the day when it was a much smaller affair in Thompkins Square Park. A full day of peace, love, and wigs…
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
16. Bone Wind Fire
A journey into the hearts, minds and eyes of Georgia O’Keeffe, Emily Carr and Frida Kahlo - three of the 20th century’s most remarkable artists.
17. Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'
Retrospective documentary on the making of the cult classic "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory."
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
18. Film for Blind Poet (Filme para Poeta Cego)
Glauco Mattoso, a blind sadomasochistic poet, agrees to participate in a documentary about his own life, but the conditions he imposes raise difficulties to the work of the young director.
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
19. Once in a Lifetime
This documentary delves into the history behind the Wellington New Zealand based private LOTR Fan museum, run by Kathy. It plays on request at the museum.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
20. Qu'est-ce que c'est? (Qu'est-ce que c'est?)
An experimental docu-fiction short from hours of collected material shot by the director. Different scenes, from drunk parties with friends to shots of the Dutch landscape during a train ride, are cut together to see if a narrative story can be constructed from nothing but randomly shot footage.
