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Pseudodocumentary
see all genres ›The theme-and-variations of pseudodocumentary have exploded in recent years as filmmakers have grasped the range of witty, disturbing and ambiguous effects that can be reached by blurring fact and fiction.
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Genres / Drama / Pseudodocumentary
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Africa in Flames
In the darkest region of Africa, the struggle for survival between man and beast has raged since the dawn of time. Jungle infant Boru is orphaned after his mother, cast into the wilderness, is devoured by a ravenous lion. Adopted by nomadic chieftain Shaikh Asgar, Bory and Asgar's son Nikitu grow up to be...Start your free trial to watch
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Aftermath on Meadowlark Lane
A smoldering car wreck moves two brothers to ask their mother about a significant difference in their upbringings. The Zellners’ knotty dialogue touches upon Pilgrims, foreskins, European sexual preferences and smallpox, a welter of neurosis and shame. If the script seems unlikely, an autobiographical...Start your free trial to watch
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The Blonde Captive
What would you find in the heart of a white woman who was the captive bride of a cave-dwelling savage? Grotesque and weird though it may seem, a blonde English-speaking woman was found naked living in a cave! This shocking discovery turned Dr. Paul Withington's expedition into a drama of truth stranger...Start your free trial to watch
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Blues for the Avatar
BLUES FOR THE AVATAR is a comedy about two oddball characters: a man, Cheyenne, and a woman, Mary Jane, caught in the circumstances of being unwanted guests in other people's lives. His propensity for women has landed him in the middle of a horrendous breakup, while her quest for self-discovery leads her...Start your free trial to watch
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Brides of Sulu
This curio from "Exploitation Picture Corp." offers one part invaluable anthropological record to one part endearingly cloddish, staged "exotic" romance. The filmmakers traveled to the Sulu Islands in the southwestern Philippines (which were then a U.S. "protectorate”) though, as our hokey, joking American narrator snarks,...Start your free trial to watch
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The Burning Stable
In the fall of 1896, the Edison Company was busy making their own versions of other company's hits. Since Biograph films were shot on a different (68mm) format, their pictures could not be shown on regular 35mm projectors, providing Edison with an attractive commercial opportunity. THE BURNING STABLE...Start your free trial to watch
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Carcasses
Jean-Paul Colmor is 74 years old. After an accident early in his life, he took a retreat in collecting cars, wrecks and junk for the last 40 years. Living among tons and tons of debris, he quietly works each day on his unimaginable property, furnishing and dealing car parts to mechanics and other iron aficionados. One day,...Start your free trial to watch
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Clay
Eliot Noyes, Jr. made CLAY as a Harvard undergraduate. Tracing the rise of life on earth from primordial ooze to the present in eight minutes, the film was enlarged to 35mm, released theatrically and nominated for an Academy Award® as "Best Animated Short Subject." Noyes' work included projects for Sesame Street, HBO, Pixar...Start your free trial to watch
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The Electronic Diaries
A woman's personal life unfolds over twelve years in a video diary that simultaneously parallels and reflects global history. Personal fears and obsession dissolve into a story of triumph and empowerment as the protagonist eventually finds her voice.Start your free trial to watch
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Evening Land
"In October 1975, I was invited by Stig Björkman, a Swedish filmmaker in charge of production for the Danish Film Institute, to begin research on a feature film which was to be funded chiefly by the Institute and two private producers, Steen Herdel and Ebbe Preisler. Together with Danish director/writer Poul Martinsen and...Start your free trial to watch
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The F Word
A "fictional documentary" about Joe Pace, a radio talk show host whose program, THE F WORD, is being shut down by the F.C.C. after racking up over a million dollars in unpaid indecency fines. On his last day on the air, which coincides with the last day of the Republican National Convention (à la MEDIUM COOL and,...Start your free trial to watch
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The Falls
Standing at a pivotal point in his filmography, poised between his earlier, witty shorts and the unique pleasures of his post-DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT oeuvre, THE FALLS is arguably the most significant film of Peter Greenaway’s prolific career. Shot as a pseudodocumentary, this magnum opus dazzlingly details ninety-two case...Start your free trial to watch
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How It Feels to Be Run Over
An early instance of a filmmaker going for the throat, this faux documentary is easily one of the first "driver safety" shorts on record. The director cleverly creates a fake-out within the film's brief one-minute running time to seemingly suggest that the preferred method of transportation is...Start your free trial to watch
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I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You
José Renato, geologist, thirty-five years old, is sent on a field-trip to the scrublands of the Sertão, a semi-arid isolated region in the Northeast of Brazil. The goal of his survey is to assess possible routes for a water canal from the region's only voluminous river. For many of the region's...Start your free trial to watch
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In/Significant Others
IN/SIGNIFICANT OTHERS is a psychological drama that explores lives of one city’s resident, each of whom is connected to the same homicide investigation. The ensemble cast includes an Iraq War veteran returned home to an emotionally disturbed wife; a new father living in the shadow of his successful...Start your free trial to watch
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Inside Dope
A pseudo-educational, fictitious documentary survey of the ups, downs, ins and far-outs of Dope. Very funny and slightly sinister, like Red Skelton in the sky with diamonds. - Ron Padgett. With Jacob Burckhardt, Jim Carroll, Edwin Denby, William Dunas, Larry Fagin, Joan Fagin, Red Grooms, Yvonne Jacquette, Edmund Leites,...Start your free trial to watch
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Let Me Die a Woman
From Doris Wishman, the “Queen of Exploitation,” comes LET ME DIE A WOMAN, one of the most jaw-dropping and unclassifiable films ever to ooze forth from the 1970s grindhouse. A stunningly sordid shockumentary on the medical condition known as gender dysphoria, this doco-style sleaze-fest includes...Start your free trial to watch