Portrait Movies

With his soaring falsetto and magnetic yet understated stage presence, Jimmy Somerville burst onto the 1980s new wave scene, making the world dance...

This documentary looks back on a career of a woman who, very early on, refused to accept the roles assigned to her. In the 1980s, while others were...

Some celebrate him as a sex symbol and the most interesting actor of our time. Envious people talk about his smooth face, his washboard stomach, and...

How have the changing views on children been reflected in their representation in art? From Baby Jesus to the first photographic portraits, an...

A documentary directed by Gregory Monro.

Christine’s father died when she was still a small child, and she remained in the care of her sadistic mother, who beat her and abused her...

In 1985, former oil rig worker Richard Linklater began a film screening society in Austin, Texas, that aimed to show classic art-house and...

Annedore takes care of orphan birds. They give her that which humans througout her turbulent life could never give her: love.

A study of the psychology of a champion ski-flyer, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.

Daring in Frances Ha, adapting brilliantly Little Women and breaking world box-office records with Barbie: in less than a decade, Greta Gerwig has...

Luxembourgish presenter, director, producer, and actress Désirée Nosbusch, born in 1965, is a woman of many talents. After starting out...

In France, victims and perpetrators of offenses, misdemeanors, or crimes can meet and talk in secure, supervised settings. Included in the Penal Code...

She was the first to study gorillas in their natural environment: the high mountains of Rwanda, where she settled in 1967. For nearly twenty years,...