Cinema On Cinema Movies

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth o...

The gripping story of legendary American actor John Travolta: his rise to stardom in the 1970s; his agonizing fall in disgrace in the 1980s; and his s...

The life story of Richard Pryor (1940-2005),the legendary performer and iconic social satirist who transcended racial and social barriers with his ho...

A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main autho...

A look at the life, work and importance of Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman (1910-89),a genius of world cinema, a wizard of special effects, revealing his...

Act of Violence Upon a Young Journalist is a film shot in 1988 and released on VHS in 1989; a mysterious cult work of Uruguayan cinema surrounded by s...

In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collect filmed and recorded evidence of the horrors comm...

An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84),a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western...

A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman (1915-82),a young Swedish woman who became one of the most ce...

This documentary depicts the filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky talking about his life, his loves, his career as a filmmaker, graphic novelist, and worksh...

A portrait of the internationally acclaimed Spanish film director Isabel Coixet and an analysis of her particular world and her sensibility as a creat...

What some filmmakers do when they are not making movies: they waste time; they eat and get drunk; they take a walk after watching a movie; they fall i...

An exploration of the cinematic history of the folk horror, from its beginnings in the UK in the late sixties; through its proliferation on British te...

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98);...

Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style. One of the greatest actresses of her time, she is best remembered for a natural and vulnerable p...

A journey into the mind of French actor and director Jean-Pierre Mocky (1929-2019),author of films both playful and profound, of an impressive richne...

Tippi Hedren, the unforgettable actress who starred in The Birds (1963),made in her memoirs a relentless portrait of its director, the genius British...

Cliff Richard and The Shadows are hired to star in a movie shot amid the lush tropical scenery of the Canary Islands. A sunny seaside spectacular, fil...

Ferruccio Castronuovo was the only authorized eye, between 1976 and 1986, to film the brilliant Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini (1920-1993) in his...

A movie-theater employee adjusts to a new life as the cinema he's worked at for over 25 years faces closure.