Cinema Verite Filmes

"Mother" stands out on the front of her black t-shirt, "Fucker" on the back. And as angrily as these words sound when combined into a curse, is how...

From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the...

When his estranged daughter Miranda tragically dies, a retired musician sets out to complete the last song she wrote.

John Cassellis is the toughest TV news reporter around. After extensively reporting about violence and racial tensions in poor communities, he...

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

In Manhattan's Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves is shooting a screen test with various pairs of actors. It's a confrontation...

Facing a mid-life crisis, a journalist discovers the regular folk moonlighting as indie wrestlers, who help him transform his childhood dream into...

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the Clinton for President campaign, focusing on the adventures of spin doctors James Carville and George...

A person desperately searches for their lost little brother during a Memorial Day festival in this one take POV thriller

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

This ground-breaking cinéma-vérité classic documents five weeks in the lives of twelve residents of a home for emotionally...

Cuban drummer Elvis García reflects on his journey from Havana to Miami, struggling to make his way in the American city as a professional...

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

Adrian and Duru get lost in the characters they play in an apocalyptic film and embark on a secret mission to end the world for real. Second entry in...

A cinema verite study of the world of the blue-collar worker and the economic and psychological bind in which he is caught.

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

A day in the life of a train station.

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

Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking...

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