
Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser (1988)
Genre: Documentary, Music
Director: Charlotte Zwerin
Actors: Harry Colomby, Jimmy Cleveland, John Coltrane, Nellie Monk, Samuel E. Wright, Thelonious Monk
Country: United States of America
Scheme Birds (2019)
As her adolescence gives way to the obligations of motherhood, troubled Gemma matures in Motherwell, her Scottish hometown, heavily dependent on the steel industry. Unfortunately for her, her hedonistic way…
Häxan (1922)
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen’s legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle…
This Filthy World (2006)
In this filmed version of cult film director John Waters’ popular one-man show, the Pink Flamingos and A Dirty Shame director takes the stage to discuss everything from his early…
Flint (2020)
In 2014, the authorities in Flint, Michigan chose to cut costs and change the city’s domestic water supply from the great Lakes to the Flint River. Soon tap water was…
The Disappearance of My Mother (2019)
Aging fashion model Benedetta Barzini strives to escape the world of images and disappear for good, but her son’s determination to make a final film about her sparks an unexpected…
Dream Window: Reflections on the Japanese Garden (1992)
Exquisite exploration of landscape and Toru Takemitsu’s music for a Japanese moss garden.
Fast Cheap & Out of Control (1997)
Errol Morris’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of four men, each driven to create eccentric worlds from their unique obsessions, all of which involve animals. There’s…
Putin’s Palace: History of World’s Largest Bribe (2021)
After surviving poisoning by a Novichok nerve agent, Alexey Navalny made his most important film. Putin’s Palace: History of World’s Largest Bribe is about the palace near Gelendzhik that presumably…
Salam – The First ****** Nobel Laureate (2019)
Salam is a feature length documentary about the Nobel prize winning Pakistani physicist, Abdus Salam. The film reveals the extraordinary life of the charismatic Abdus Salam, in all its color,…
Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2019)
Film adaptation of French economist Thomas Piketty’s ground-breaking global bestseller of the same name: an eye-opening journey through wealth and power.
Peace (2010)
What is peace? What is coexistence? And what are the basis for them? PEACE is a visual-essay-like observational documentary, which contemplates these questions by observing the daily lives of people…
Pablo Escobar: Countdown to Death (2017)
Through rare interviews, images and wiretap audio, this documentary reconstructs the last nine years of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar’s life.