Cinema Verite Movies

  • 2010
    Brent Houzenga: Hybrid Pioneer

    Brent Houzenga: Hybrid Pioneer

    Brent Houzenga: Hybrid Pioneer

    02010HD

    A documentary about an Iowa artist who made his career from two antique photo albums that he found in the trash. It has been four years since he...

    Brent Houzenga: Hybrid Pioneer
  • 1976
    Rendezvous

    Rendezvous

    Rendezvous

    7.2531976HD

    A high-speed drive through the streets of Paris.

    Rendezvous
  • 2020
    Lida

    Lida

    Lida

    02020HD

    "LIDA" takes place on the day of Lida's 70th birthday. This already special day is made more unusual by the recent arrival of her grandson, Lev, who...

    Lida
  • 1973
    Come On Children

    Come On Children

    Come On Children

    5.81973HD

    Five boys and five girls ages 13 to 19 live on a farm for ten weeks, to be filmed, and to see what might emerge for each of them personally.

    Come On Children
  • 2024
    Queensnakes

    Queensnakes

    Queensnakes

    02024HD

    Biologist Scott Gillingwater works to prevent the extinction of the endangered Queensnake.

    Queensnakes
  • 1983
    An American Family Revisited: The Louds 10 Years Later

    An American Family Revisited: The Louds 10 Years Later

    An American Family Revisited: The Louds 10 Years Later

    11983HD

    A ten-year update on the Loud family and their reflections on becoming the first reality TV stars. Their experience of becoming media celebrities and...

    An American Family Revisited: The Louds 10 Years Later
  • 2002
    Manito

    Manito

    Manito

    5.82002HD

    Fifteen years ago, their Washington Heights neighborhood was dubbed the crack-cocaine capital of the world, but today it is transforming into one of...

    Manito
  • 2023
    Plains

    Plains

    Plains

    02023HD

    Set in the sparsely populated lobster fishing villages of southern Nova Scotia, Plains is a cinema vérité approach to documenting the...

    Plains
  • 2024
    An American Family at 50

    An American Family at 50

    An American Family at 50

    02024HD

    TV special revisiting the documentary series that became a media sensation 50 years ago and birthed a new television genre. Examines the enduring...

    An American Family at 50
  • 2003
    Lance Loud!: A Death in An American Family

    Lance Loud!: A Death in An American Family

    Lance Loud!: A Death in An American Family

    3.52003HD

    Eldest son Lance, of the Loud family profiled on PBS in 1973, became the first openly gay man on television and a gay icon for his generation. When...

    Lance Loud!: A Death in An American Family
  • 2020
    Bruised Fruit

    Bruised Fruit

    Bruised Fruit

    102020HD

    Struggling to survive on the margins of society, two outcasts manage to build a beautiful friendship as they face loss and hardship.

    Bruised Fruit
  • 1970
    Come Hungry: A Day in the Luzhou Night Market

    Come Hungry: A Day in the Luzhou Night Market

    Come Hungry: A Day in the Luzhou Night Market

    01970HD

    As dawn breaks over Taipei, a whole world comes to life around the Luzhou temple night market, only to be dismantled by sunrise. In COME HUNGRY,...

    Come Hungry: A Day in the Luzhou Night Market
  • 1970
    ESSENTIEL — A Portrait

    ESSENTIEL — A Portrait

    ESSENTIEL — A Portrait

    01970HD

    His work illustrates people. Densha Tattoo reflects on craft, inspiration and the scene. — What is the essence of a human being? One stitch at...

    ESSENTIEL — A Portrait
  • 1971
    Ieder van ons

    Ieder van ons

    Ieder van ons

    01971HD

    Film in cinéma-vérité style exploring the boundery between fiction and reality of actors and the roles they (have to) play.

    Ieder van ons
  • 2017
    Those Who Jump

    Those Who Jump

    Those Who Jump

    62017HD

    In northern Morocco lies the Spanish enclave of Melilla: Europe on African Land. On the mountain above live over a thousand hopeful African...

    Those Who Jump
  • 2019
    Nightcrawlers

    Nightcrawlers

    Nightcrawlers

    5.72019HD

    For five years, Stephen McCoy documented street life in Boston. This is what he captured.

    Nightcrawlers
  • 1968
    The Village

    The Village

    The Village

    01968HD

    An intimate study of Dunquin, County Kerry, Ireland, the westernmost village in Europe and one of the last Gaelic-speaking communities. Isolated from...

    The Village
  • 1970
    Blue Kangling

    Blue Kangling

    Blue Kangling

    01970HD

    Tibetan Buddhist search for the meaning of death in an unforgiving Himalayan landscape and stir compassion by uncovering human truths

    Blue Kangling
  • 1963
    The Lovely Month of May

    The Lovely Month of May

    The Lovely Month of May

    81963HD

    Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and...

    The Lovely Month of May
  • 2022
    The Patrician's Guide To Kino

    The Patrician's Guide To Kino

    The Patrician's Guide To Kino

    02022HD

    Filmmaker Adrian Beqiri was gearing up to make his magnum opus experimental film 'Adventures Of A Posthuman Through Time And Space' but now the...

    The Patrician's Guide To Kino