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1. Crumb (1994)
R | 119 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy
An intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.
Director: Terry Zwigoff | Stars: Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Charles Crumb, Maxon Crumb
Votes: 21,578 | Gross: $3.17M
2. Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
Director Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend in this definitive documentary but also delves into Basquiat as an iconoclast. His dense, bebop-influenced neoexpressionist work emerged while... See full summary »
Director: Tamra Davis | Stars: Jean Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Larry Gagosian, Bruno Bischofberger
Votes: 2,481 | Gross: $0.26M
3. The Pipe (2010)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, Drama
What do people do, when the law prevents them from protecting themselves? Documentary film on the small Irish village that stood up to Big Oil.
Director: Risteard O'Domhnaill | Stars: Bertie Ahern, Mary Corduff, Willie Corduff, Maura Harrington
Votes: 250
4. La constellation Jodorowsky (1994)
91 min | Documentary, Biography
The quest for the true personality of multi-talented cult artist and psycho-magician Alexandro Jodorowsky
Director: Louis Mouchet | Stars: Fernando Arrabal, Peter Gabriel, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Marcel Marceau
Votes: 553
5. Iconoclast (2010)
233 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Boyd Rice may well be the only person alive who's been on a first name basis with both Charlie Manson and Marilyn Manson. His career has spanned more than three decades, during which time ... See full summary »
Director: Larry Wessel | Stars: Allison Anders, Margaret Ann, Blanche Barton, Rodney Bingenheimer
Votes: 213
6. The Source (1999)
88 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S.
Director: Chuck Workman | Stars: Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Dennis Hopper, Allen Ginsberg
Votes: 844 | Gross: $0.36M
7. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
288 min | Documentary, Biography
Director Jonas Mekas provides an intimate glimpse of his personal life by constructing a feature length narrative from over 30 years of private home movie footage.
Director: Jonas Mekas | Stars: Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Hollis Frampton
Votes: 1,459
8. American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince (1978)
Not Rated | 55 min | Documentary
Director Martin Scorsese talks to actor Steven Prince about his past. As the night goes on, Prince reveals some very amusing and moving stories of his experiences with drugs and violence.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Steven Prince, Julia Cameron, Mardik Martin, Kathi McGinnis
Votes: 1,894
9. The Invaders (2015)
Documentary
The Invaders is a feature-length, documentary film, which tells the story of a group of young black militants in late 1960's Memphis, Tennessee.
Director: Prichard Smith | Stars: David Acey, Charles Cabbage, Stokely Carmichael, Clarence Christian
Votes: 35
10. World Leaders on Peace and Democracy (1939)
24 min | Documentary, Short
Ten prominent men, with five Nobel Prize winners among them, speak out for the cause of democracy and peace, with an underlining theme that it is the duty of the citizens of the US and the ... See full summary »
Stars: Eduard Benes, Nicholas Murray Butler, Arthur H. Compton, Albert Einstein
Votes: 26
11. The Act of Killing (2012)
Not Rated | 117 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.
Directors: Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous, Christine Cynn | Stars: Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, Syamsul Arifin, Ibrahim Sinik
Votes: 40,762 | Gross: $0.49M
12. Rosa Luxemburg (1986)
Not Rated | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.
Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Daniel Olbrychski, Otto Sander, Adelheid Arndt
Votes: 1,921
13. Hey! Is Dee Dee Home? (2002)
Not Rated | 63 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
This program features Lech Kowalski's 2003 documentary feature about the life and times of Ramones bassist and all-star burn out, Dee Dee Ramone (1952-2002). Dee Dee's life is a fascinating... See full summary »
Director: Lech Kowalski | Stars: Dee Dee Ramone, Lech Kowalski, Johnny Thunders, Richard Hell
Votes: 164
14. Gates of Heaven (1978)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary
A documentary about a pet cemetery in California, and the people who have pets buried there.
Director: Errol Morris | Stars: Lucille Billingsley, Zella Graham, Cal Harberts, Dan Harberts
Votes: 6,284
15. Sick (1997)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis from a young age, performance artist Bob Flanagan shared his life and pain in his art, usually through sadomasochistic practices.
Director: Kirby Dick | Stars: Bob Flanagan, Sheree Rose, Kathe Burkhart, Kirby Dick
Votes: 1,721 | Gross: $0.12M
16. Zoo (2007)
Unrated | 75 min | Documentary
A look at the life of an Enumclaw, Washington man who died as a result of an unusual encounter with a horse.
Director: Robinson Devor | Stars: Coyote, Jenny Edwards, John Edwards, John Paulsen
Votes: 2,981 | Gross: $0.07M
17. The Thin Blue Line (1988)
Not Rated | 101 min | Documentary, Crime
A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.
Director: Errol Morris | Stars: Randall Adams, David Harris, Gus Rose, Jackie Johnson
Votes: 25,867 | Gross: $1.21M
18. Blow Job (1963)
35 min | Documentary, Short
Andy Warhol directs a single 35-minute shot of a man's face to capture his facial expressions as he receives the sexual act depicted in the title.
Director: Andy Warhol | Stars: DeVeren Bookwalter, Willard Maas
Votes: 1,159
19. Blue Movie (1969)
Unrated | 105 min | Drama, Romance
Viva (playing herself) and Louis Waldon (playing himself) spend an idyllic afternoon together in an apartment in New York City.
Director: Andy Warhol | Stars: Viva, Louis Waldon
Votes: 444
20. Acid Delirium of the Senses (1968)
92 min | Drama
Film showing the effects of drug taking: hallucinations, etc.
Director: Giuseppe Maria Scotese | Stars: Bud Thompson, Bruna Caruso, Annabella Andreoli, Norman Davis
Votes: 69
21. White Star (1983)
92 min | Drama, Music
A rock music reporter and his view of the angry excited punk generation.
Director: Roland Klick | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Terrance Robay, Ramona Sweeny, David Hess
Votes: 317 | Gross: $0.45M
22. Super High Me (2007)
R | 94 min | Documentary, Comedy
Stand up comedian and marijuana user Doug Benson documents thirty days of pot free living and thirty days of non-stop use to compare the effects of both.
Director: Michael Blieden | Stars: Brian Unger, Gary Cohan, Robert Gore, Sean Tabibian
Votes: 13,141
23. Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992)
60 min | Documentary
Filmed in wartime and edited under candlelight, Mikhail Vartanov's rarely-seen masterwork tells of his friendship with the genius Sergei Parajanov who was arrested by KGB, at the height of ... See full summary »
Directors: Mikhail Vartanov, Sergei Parajanov | Stars: Sergei Parajanov, Mikhail Vartanov, Sofiko Chiaureli, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Votes: 225
24. The Call of the Wild (2007)
155 min | Documentary
A 2007 documentary film by Ron Lamothe about Christopher McCandless notable for coming to a different conclusion on McCandless's death than Sean Penn's film, Into the Wild, and Jon Krakauer's book, Into the Wild.
Director: Ron Lamothe | Stars: Thomas Clausen, Will Forsberg, Leonard Knight
Votes: 362
25. A Hard Look (2000 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
Documentary about the Emmanuelle movies, looking at their making as well as their social and cultural impact.
Director: Alex Cox | Stars: Alex Cox, Sylvia Kristel, Laura Gemser, Just Jaeckin
Votes: 62
26. Megacities (1998)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
A look at the people who live precariously, but with an unusual level of resourcefulness and imagination, in four gigantic urban agglomerations: Mumbai, New York City, Moscow and Mexico City.
Director: Michael Glawogger
Votes: 1,027
27. Lobotomiya (2010)
Not Rated | 57 min | Documentary, News
The film is a social-political documentary film that raises questions about the roles we play in history and about the conditions that make it possible to overlook the onset of ... See full summary »
Director: Yuriy Khashchevatskiy
Votes: 69
28. Beautiful Losers (2008)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Music
This documentary follows the lives and careers of a collective group of Do-it-yourself artists and designers who inadvertently affected the art world.
Directors: Aaron Rose, Joshua Leonard | Stars: Julian Bennett Holmes, Thomas Campbell, Shepard Fairey, Jo Jackson
Votes: 1,422 | Gross: $0.06M
29. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)
R | 96 min | Documentary
Documentary that chronicles how Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) was plagued by extraordinary script, shooting, budget, and casting problems--nearly destroying the life and career of the celebrated director.
Directors: Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, George Lucas
Votes: 23,194 | Gross: $1.32M
30. Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)
PG-13 | 90 min | Documentary
The story of cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky's ambitious but ultimately doomed film adaptation of the seminal science fiction novel.
Director: Frank Pavich | Stars: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Michel Seydoux, H.R. Giger, Chris Foss
Votes: 27,499 | Gross: $0.65M
31. American Movie (1999)
R | 107 min | Documentary, Comedy
Documentary about an aspiring filmmaker's attempts to finance his dream project by finally completing the low-budget horror film he abandoned years before.
Director: Chris Smith | Stars: Mark Borchardt, Mike Schank, Tom Schimmels, Monica Borchardt
Votes: 19,305 | Gross: $1.16M
32. The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)
150 min | Documentary
Slavoj Zizek examines famous films in a philosophical and a psychoanalytic context.
Director: Sophie Fiennes | Star: Slavoj Zizek
Votes: 7,333
33. The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004)
TV-PG | 98 min | Documentary, History
Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.
Director: Wendy Apple | Stars: Kathy Bates, Zach Staenberg, Jodie Foster, Michael Tronick
Votes: 3,194
34. Side by Side (2012)
Not Rated | 99 min | Documentary
The documentary investigates the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation.
Director: Christopher Kenneally | Stars: Derek Ambrosi, Michael Ballhaus, Andrzej Bartkowiak, Dion Beebe
Votes: 13,713 | Gross: $0.03M
35. Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary, Adventure
A behind the scenes chronicle of how clash of vision, bad creative decisions, lack of interest and really bad weather plagued the disastrous production of the infamous The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996).
Director: David Gregory | Stars: Richard Stanley, Kier-La Janisse, Michael Gingold, Graham Humphreys
Votes: 4,411
36. This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
Unrated | 98 min | Documentary
Kirby Dick's exposé about the American movie ratings board.
Director: Kirby Dick | Stars: Kirby Dick, Kimberly Peirce, Darren Aronofsky, Atom Egoyan
Votes: 28,616 | Gross: $0.30M
37. Poétique du cerveau (2015)
66 min | Documentary
A documentary about brain, his capacities and his poetical aspect using testimonials from researchers around the world
Director: Nurith Aviv
Votes: 8
38. Shoah (1985)
Not Rated | 566 min | Documentary, History, War
Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
Director: Claude Lanzmann | Stars: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaïdl, Hanna Zaïdl
Votes: 10,529 | Gross: $0.02M
39. Häxan (1922)
Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary, Fantasy, Horror
Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.
Director: Benjamin Christensen | Stars: Benjamin Christensen, Elisabeth Christensen, Maren Pedersen, Clara Pontoppidan
Votes: 16,690
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