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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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Longshot
Fact and fiction blur in this faux documentary about a lost woman, Lian, who is searching for her own identity. Lian is manipulated by Dennis, a video editor. He captures surveillance footage of her and manipulates it in an attempt to manipulate and then possess her real life.Start your free trial to watch
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A Morning Bath
A remake of rival Biograph's popular A HARD WASH, this film's "joke" plays with racist clichés as well as theatrical conventions where blacks, whether impersonated by white actors or played by African Americans, performed using burnt cork as "masks." No matter how vigorous the bath, the baby's skin remains dark and corky....Start your free trial to watch
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Olga's Girls
Headquartered in New York’s Chinatown (where Communists provide a steady stream of dangerous drugs from the Orient), sadist Olga Saglo deals in narcotics and white slavery. Her drug-addicted slaves, brutally tortured for the slightest offense, rely on each other for comfort. When Olga suspects there is an informant among...Start your free trial to watch
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On Sundays
Legendary filmmaker Bruce Baillie's first film, shot in San Francisco (and utilizing the city as an effective backdrop). A combination of documentary and fantasy starring Baillie's "lovely friend" Miss Wong, ON SUNDAYS evokes an evocative quote by Carl Jung, "...remembering a potentiality of life which has been overgrown by...Start your free trial to watch
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Oxhide II
Breaking new ground in cinematic art, Liu Jiayin's follow-up to her masterful debut OXHIDE turns a simple dinner into a profoundly intimate study of family relationships. Building on the stunning vision of OXHIDE (voted one of the best Chinese films of the 2000s), writer-director Liu Jiayin once again casts herself and her...Start your free trial to watch
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The P-38 Pilot
“For the dispossessed, the excluded, the condemned, fallen from life and loving.” These words are typed across the screen at the outset of THE P-38 PILOT, Bruce Baillie’s experimental video portrait of a former pilot outraged by old age and bitter with regrets. We hear the man's disputatious monologue on the soundtrack: “I’m...Start your free trial to watch
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Punishment Park
The war in Vietnam is escalating. There is massive public protest in the United States and elsewhere. President Nixon declares a state of national emergency and the federal authorities are given the power to detain persons judged to be "a risk to internal security." In a desert zone in southwest California, a civilian...Start your free trial to watch
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Results of the XII Party Congress of Cooperation
Created to animatedly document the April 1923 congress of the Russian Communist Party, the last under Vladimir Lenin's rule (who was already out of power by the time this film was evidently completed), RESULTS OF THE XII PARTY CONGRESS OF COOPERATION specifically deals with the plight of farmers and the...Start your free trial to watch
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Shirin
A vibrant, daringly original work from Abbas Kiarostami, SHIRIN is the flowering of an experimentalist streak that’s been evident in many of the director’s most well-known features, including CLOSE-UP, TASTE OF CHERRY and others. Ostensibly an adaptation of a 12th century Persian poem about a young princess courted by two...Start your free trial to watch
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Stephanie's Image
A former model, Stephanie (Melissa Leo), is found murdered in her San Francisco apartment. Her boyfriend, Richard (Chris Butler), whose body is also found at the scene, apparently killed her and then committed suicide. A photographer (Janis DeLucia Allen) who worked closely with Stephanie, decides to make...Start your free trial to watch
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La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo
LA TRINCHERA LUMINOSA DEL PRESIDENTE GONZALO has the look of a Maoist home movie from the 1980s. Shot in Hi-8 video in New Mexico, the film is one day in a Shining Path women’s prison cellblock in Peru. After capture, the Gang-of-Four Maoist revolutionaries basically ran their cellblocks as if they...Start your free trial to watch
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24 City
A masterful film from Jia Zhangke, the renowned director of STILL LIFE, 24 CITY chronicles the dramatic closing of a once-prosperous state-owned aeronautics factory in Chengdu, a city in Southwest China, and its conversion into a sprawling luxury apartment complex. Bursting with poetry, pop songs and striking visual detail,...Start your free trial to watch
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Victorious Destination
Western fat cats cackling at the Five Year Plan doomed to fail (or so they think) are duly undone by the triumph of Soviet industrial progress in this vintage cartoon. Greedy landlords are plowed under by proletarian tractors; Bolshevik military might strikes fear into hostile nations; capitalists are...Start your free trial to watch
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Virtual Love
A love story for the 90s: Valery falls in love with an identical twin, a virtual reality scientist, and finds she can have a more intimate relationship with him through the computer screen than in person. Or is it really him? Commissioned by ZDF German Television, VIRTUAL LOVE features a number of virtual reality experts such...Start your free trial to watch
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Water Wrackets
Landscape becomes the central performer and only actor in this rare, mystical short that was Peter Greenaway’s first experiment with the fantastic. WATER WRACKETS’ vast wilderness landscape and soothing soundtrack of babbling brooks vividly recount the battles won and lost by the mythical WATER WRACKETS Army.Start your free trial to watch
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We Are the Littletons
WE ARE THE LITTLETONS presents a tangled web of found objects, intercepted correspondences, reenactments and total fabrications centered around Eve Littleton, an artist with "movie star good looks" who was mysteriously banished from her postcard-perfect American family. Penny Lane spent a year in Eve's...Start your free trial to watch