Films and media

Documentaries, films and series, with one sentence on what each covers.

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Amy
Asif KapadiaDocumentary2015
Assembled from home video and archive footage, the film traces the singer Amy Winehouse from early promise through fame, addiction, and her death at twenty-seven.
The Double Life of Veronique
Krzysztof KieslowskiFilm1991
Two identical women, one in Poland and one in France, live separate lives yet sense a mysterious bond with a second self they will never meet.
Tomboy
Celine SciammaFilm2011
A ten year old who has just moved to a new neighbourhood introduces herself to the local children as a boy named Mikael, and keeps the secret through the summer.
The Worst Person in the World
Joachim TrierFilm2021
A woman in her late twenties in Oslo moves between studies, jobs, and two very different men as she struggles to settle on who she wants to be.
The Substance
Coralie FargeatFilm2024
A fading television star takes a black market drug that generates a younger version of herself, and the two selves turn on each other with grotesque results.
Ida
Pawel PawlikowskiFilm2013
In 1960s Poland, a young novice about to take her vows learns she is Jewish and sets out with her aunt to find how her family died in the war.
Vagabond
Agnes VardaFilm1985
After a young drifter is found frozen in a ditch, the people who crossed her path recount her final weeks of wandering and refusal.
Head-On
Fatih AkinFilm2004
Two Turkish Germans who meet in a psychiatric clinic after suicide attempts marry for convenience, then fall into a love that is as destructive as it is real.
Three Identical Strangers
Tim WardleDocumentary2018
Three men discover in their late teens that they are triplets separated at birth, and learn they were the unwitting subjects of a secret study on twins.
Sibyl
Justine TrietFilm2019
A psychotherapist who leaves her practice to write a novel takes on one last patient, an actress whose crisis pulls her into a ruin of her own making.
Ana, mon amour
Calin Peter NetzerFilm2017
A couple's decade together is reconstructed out of order around her severe panic attacks and his role as caretaker, until it is unclear who is holding whom.
Mass
Fran KranzFilm2021
In a church side room, the parents of a boy killed in a school shooting sit down with the parents of the boy who killed him.
On the Adamant
Nicolas PhilibertDocumentary2023
On a barge moored on the Seine that serves as a day centre, adults living with psychiatric conditions make art, talk, and share the work of daily life.
My American Uncle
Alain ResnaisFilm1980
Three intercut lives illustrate a biologist's theories of behaviour as each character fights, flees, or gives up under the pressures of work and love.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Julian SchnabelFilm2007
After a stroke leaves him paralysed and able only to blink one eye, a magazine editor dictates a memoir letter by letter.
Among Wolves
Gerardo OlivaresFilm2010
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Gerardo Olivares films the case of Marcos Rodriguez Pantoja, handed over to a goatherd as a child and left alone in the Sierra Morena for twelve years.
Hamnet
Chloe ZhaoFilm2025
The death of an eleven year old son, told from his mother's side, in the years before his father writes the play.
Orphée
Jean CocteauFilm1950
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Cocteau reworks the Orpheus myth in postwar Paris, with Death as a woman in a black car and mirrors as the door between worlds.