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Plot Summary:
A “hidden camera” takes the viewer on a worldwide tour of sexual practices and rituals, including Tijuana strippers, Asian sex shows, British prostitutes, New York devil worshipers and a Mexican slave market.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Documentary
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: mondo, mockumentary, grindhouse, independent film, fake documentary
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Hide and Seek (1996)
Plot Summary:
Mixes documentary interviews of memories of lesbian adolescence with the story of the 12-year-old girl Lou discovering her sexuality in 1960s America.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, realistic, sexual, educational, sexy, queer cinema
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Lost in the Crowd (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lost in the Crowd is a documentary film by Austrian filmmaker Susi Graf about LGBT homeless youth in New York City. The film tells the story of a group of kids focusing on how they became homeless and their attempts to survive on the streets of New York. Most of the youth say the reason that they’re homeless in the first place is because they have been rejected from their families for being Gay or Transgender.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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Mission to Matrimony: The Gay Marriage Proposal (2006)
Plot Summary:
A pro-gay-marriage Catholic archbishop. Members of the Westboro Baptist Church. High-profile politicians. A former lesbian converting homosexuals to "straightness." Two survivors of 9/11 victims denied marital benefits. And much more... This film delves into the emotion behind the hot-button issue of same-sex marriage. Probing, powerful, and full of humanity -- this movie will change the way you think.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Documentary
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: uplifting, thought provoking, serious, realistic
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What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? (1970)
Plot Summary:
Candid Camera's Allen Funt secretely tapes people's reactions to unexpected encounters with nudity in unusual situations, such as when a naked young woman casually exits an elevator in an office building, or when the nude male art model breaks the wall between artist and model and has off-the-cuff conversations with the clothed women artists. Funt also secretly tapes the test audience watching the preview film and their responses to it, from outright indignation to warm hearted-praise.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Documentary, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, thought provoking, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, cult film
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Mondo Magic (1975)
Plot Summary:
This film is about tribes in Africa and South America who turn toward magic as a means of survival and way of life.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Documentary
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mondo, disturbing, controversial, grindhouse
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Can We Live with Robots? (2017)
Plot Summary:
As robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) become increasingly prevalent, questions arise around their impact on human relationships. Travelling the world from the UK to Japan and the USA, Akram Khan meets with scientists and their creations of AI that already coexist with humans. In doing so, he confronts his own scepticism of how we can form emotional connections with machines. This film gives rise to an exhilarating duet performed by Khan and Ching-Ying Chien.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6
Genere: Documentary
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags:
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A Sweet Spot in Time (2014)
Plot Summary:
A documentary by Jonah Bryson and explorer Fabien Cousteau, grandson of Jacques Cousteau, on the effects of climate change on the oceans and coastal communities.
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Genere: Documentary
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
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A Womb of Their Own (2017)
Plot Summary:
Six articulate, charismatic and diverse masculine-identified people discuss their pregnancies and chest-feeding experiences, demonstrating the non-binary nature of gender.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Documentary
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare (1982)
Plot Summary:
A record of McKellen's one-man Broadway show about the Bard.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Documentary
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: one man show
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The Breaker (1974)
Plot Summary:
Biographical documentary about Harry "The Breaker" Morant, an Australian drover and poet who was court-martialled and executed during the Boer War.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Documentary
Country: Australia
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags:
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Tigers of the Snow (1997)
Plot Summary:
There are only about 300 remaining Siberian Tigers in the wild, restricted to a section of far Eastern Russia, near the coast. Wildlife biologists risk life and limb to track the tiger and research its movements and habits. They sedate the animals so the tigers can be measured and collared. One Russian scientist is shown raising two tigers which he found orphaned as cubs. He keeps the tigers in a cage, then allows the beasts into a fenced forest-like enclosure. The efforts of these scientists are in contrast to those of poachers, who kill the tigers for their pelts, as well as for body parts to be marketed in traditional Chinese medicine.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Documentary
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags:
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Without Gorky (2011)
Plot Summary:
Without Gorky is a personal journey into a powerful family tragedy. At the centre of the film are the conversations between the director, Cosima, and her grandmother, Mougouch. The whole family has been shaped by the legacy left by Cosima's grandfather: the Abstract Expressionist painter Arshile Gorky. His suicide in 1948 still echoes and disturbs the family's relationships. While Mougouch, looks back at her time with Gorky, their daughters, Maro and Natasha, revisit painful childhood memories. Gorky was an elusive character who escaped the Armenian genocide and reinvented himself as a romantic artist in New York in the 30s. He struggled as a painter until he found in Mougouch the emotional support he needed to flourish. Their relationship was passionate and inspiring to begin with, but the pressure of two small children and no money soon put a huge strain on them. In 1947 he was struck by a series of tragedies that led to suicide. This film takes you through the pain and courage of.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Documentary
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags:
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Sleepless Nights Stories (2011)
Plot Summary:
Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. Encountering old acquaintances like Ken and Flo Jacobs, Yoko Ono, friends, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. Mr. Mekas begins the film with the words 'I can't sleep.' Who hasn't been in this situation? Sleepy and yet wide awake at the same time, you find yourself in the world of those exhausted from the day's exertions, the drunk, the relaxed, the dancing, the brooding, the mourning, and the pensive.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Documentary
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: experimental
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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986)
Plot Summary:
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Documentary
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: experimental, underground film, avant garde, independent film
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42nd Street Forever, Volume 1 (2005)
Plot Summary:
DVD consisting of only movie trailers (grindhouse, horror, kung-fu, etc...).
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Documentary
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Nude Odeon (1978)
Plot Summary:
A faux documentary in the vein of the German sex report films, 'Nude Odeon' collects clips of men and women engaging in sexual and nudist activities whilst a female and male voice-over team continually comments on the activities being presented.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Documentary
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, fake documentary
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Bianca Beauchamp: All Access (2007)
Plot Summary:
Documents the sub-culture of latex fetishism. ALL ACCESS offers a visit inside the private and public circles of a fetish icons. It follows Bianca Beauchamp through three days and three nights during one of the Montreal Fetish Weekend. A party at home, a book signing, and a visit to a fetish event with peeps dressed in latex from head to toe. Written by Martin Perreault.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Documentary
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, non fiction
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Born in China (2016)
Plot Summary:
Venturing into the wilds of China, "Born in China" captures intimate moments with a panda bear and her growing cub, a young golden monkey who feels displaced by his baby sister, and a mother snow leopard struggling to raise her two cubs.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Documentary
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: nature documentary, educational
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Mondo Topless (1966)
Plot Summary:
Mondo Topless is a 1966 pseudo documentary directed by Russ Meyer, featuring Babette Bardot and Lorna Maitland among others.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Documentary
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: mondo, erotic, grindhouse, sex comedy, independent film, cult film
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Africa Uncensored (1971)
Plot Summary:
Documentary film making at its best as it narrates very exotic and esoteric rituals of the primitive peoples of Africa.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Documentary
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: mondo, grindhouse
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Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 (2008)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Documentary
Country: USA
Duration: 225 min
Plot tags:
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A Taste of Flesh (1967)
Plot Summary:
Two professional assassins take over the home of two women (who happen to be lesbians) and their "houseguest" in order to assassinate a visiting foreign dignitary.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, queer horror, independent film
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I Don't Hate Las Vegas Anymore (1994)
Plot Summary:
A real-life comedy about a filmmaker who takes a road trip to Las Vegas -- with his real-life father and 16-year-old half-brother, plus a crew of two -- in the hopes of proving the existence of God.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Documentary
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, independent film, mockumentary
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The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema offers an introduction into some of Žižek's most exciting ideas on fantasy, reality, sexuality, subjectivity, desire, materiality and cinematic form. Whether he is untangling the famously baffling films of David Lynch, or overturning everything you thought you knew about Hitchcock, Žižek illuminates the screen with his passion, intellect, and unfailing sense of humour.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Documentary
Country: UK, Austria, Netherlands
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: intellectual, psychological, philosophical, humorous, captivating, cerebral, clever, talky, thought provoking, psychedelic
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The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan (2004)
Plot Summary:
Everyone has a skeleton or two in his or her closet, but what about the director behind some of the most successful thrillers ever to hit the silver screen? Could M. Night Shyamalan be hiding a deep, dark secret that drives his macabre cinematic vision? Now viewers will be able to find out firsthand what fuels The Sixth Sense director's seemingly supernatural creativity as filmmakers interview Shyamalan as well as the cast and crew members who have worked most closely with him over the years. Discover the early events that shaped the mind of a future master of suspense in a documentary that is as fascinating as it is revealing.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 894
Genere: Documentary
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, serious, cult classic, fake documentary
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Project Nim (2011)
Plot Summary:
From the team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Documentary
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, sad, heartbreaking, suspenseful, thought provoking, captivating, realistic, light, educational
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Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine (2017)
Plot Summary:
A look at the rise and fall of the subversive skateboarding magazine Big Brother, which rose to prominence in the mid-1990s and had a profound effect on the skating subculture with its unfiltered approach.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Documentary
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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The Labyrinth of Sex (1969)
Plot Summary:
Take a trip into The Labyrinth of Sex with an insatiable nymphomaniac, a lovely lesbian and fetishists of every stripe.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psycho sexual, grindhouse, mondo, fake documentary
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Emanuelle and the Erotic Nights (1978)
Plot Summary:
Emanuelle hosts this peculiar sexploitation Mondo film that looks at several examples of bizarre sexual behavior.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Documentary, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, mondo
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Gringo (1985)
Plot Summary:
Filmed in documentary-style, the film follows the character of Gringo, a young man looking for fortune in New York, only to fall into heroin addiction.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Documentary
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, sincere, rough, thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic, independent film, fake documentary