Cinema Verite Movies

Frederick Wiseman observes the ins and outs of the Paris Opera House, including the processes behind seven of their operas: Genus (Wayne McGregor),...

Drag Race star Peppermint takes center stage in this up close and personal documentary about her journey with fame, identity, and the art of drag....

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

A man's life is thrown into chaos after he discovers that everyone he masturbates to dies shortly afterward.

Oum Karim, a 60-year-old Beiruti lady, is used to preparing Lahm Bi Ajin (Lebanese ham pie) once per week.

“Olive” is a short documentary that follows Olive Hagemeier, an energetic woman, on her daily routine of salvaging, repackaging and...

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...

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

After connecting with the shy Madeline, a jazz trumpeter embarks on a quest for a more gregarious paramour, but through a series of twists and turns...

The diary of Takuya Ogushi, a 18 years old Japanese, who begins his new life as a sumo wrestler.

A wheeler-dealer, involved in leisure issues, promotes and markets his business. He works smoothly and manipulate the environment and manage to make...

In 1968, Billy and Antoinette Edwards participated in a landmark documentary that would intimately observe their turbulent relationship. Over 50...

In Park City, Utah a group of independent filmmakers attend a shoestring film festival and experience the oft-regular disillusionment of the low...

The deeply socially engaged documentary filmmaker Frans Buyens had long dreamed of making the transition to fiction filmmaking. The experimental...

A picture of politicians under pressure, shot during the 1966 elections in Britain. The camera goes to meetings up and down the land, with an eye on...

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...

Todd, an artistic, sensitive teenager, finds himself at odds with his controlling family as they struggle to care for his dying grandmother....

Following a personal search for meaning through astrology, filmmaker Hayley Garrigus discovers an unexpected intersection between astrology and...

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

During a two-day period before and after the University of Alabama integration crisis, the film uses five camera crews to follow President John F....