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Lo and Behold: Reveries of The Connected World

Werner Herzog
2016

Maysa Monção - 12-10-2016

There's blood on the wire! Our internet addiction has horrific and deadly consequences for both mankind and nature; the unforgiving German director conducts brutal and urgent investigation of our dirty digital habits [Read More...]

Tramontane

Vatche Boulghourjian
2016

Victor Fraga - 11-10-2016

Picking up fragments of history: blind Lebanese orphan seeks his real identity in this complex and multilayered drama, but sadly the truth is as shattered as the ruins from the Civil War - in cinemas [Read More...]

Manchester by the Sea

Kenneth Lonergan
2016

Maysa Monção - 11-10-2016

As miserable as it gets: tale of a grumpy and cantankerous lonely man excels in its unusual storytelling format, turning an ordinary story of family mishaps into a fascinating movie with a top-drawer cast [Read More...]

Don’t Blink – Robert Frank

Laura Israel
2016

Lina Samoili - 10-10-2016

The photographer who hit the road and beat it: new doc is a comprehensive study of the "most influential photographer alive", his bold compositions, his spontaneity as well as his connection to the Beat Poets - this is part of the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Christine

Antonio Campos
2016

Victor Fraga - 10-10-2016

Staring death in the face: the live television suicide of news reporter Christine Chubbuck in 1974 is the subject of this dour and psychologically complex drama, an ingenious study of emotional collapse and American obsessions [Read More...]

Safari

Ulrich Seidl
2016

Victor Fraga - 10-10-2016

Ugly Austrians go hunting: Ulrich Seidl's latest documentary is a painful and uncomfortable reminder of a sadistic, colonial and aristocratic culture which still survives in Africa - from the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Space in Between – Marina Abramovic in Brazil

Marco del Fiol
2016

Victor Fraga - 10-10-2016

Brazil with your eyes closed: the world-famous Serbian artist charts the healing rituals of largest country in Latin America; she uses unorthodox remedies and meditation as she seeks a cure for the malaises of the body and the mind [Read More...]

Toni Erdmann

Maren Ade
2016

Maysa Monção - 09-10-2016

Would you like to see my inner beauty? This German comedy about father and daughter with conflicting personalities and lifestyles is a heartwarming and pleasant surprise from a country not often associated with humour - on Mubi on Sunday, June 28th; also available on other VoD platforms [Read More...]

Blue Velvet Revisited

Peter Braatz
2016

Maysa Monção - 07-10-2016

Walking in dreams with David Lynch: doc celebrates the 30th anniversary of one of the most twisted and extraordinary films of the 1980s, with plenty of unforeseen footage and enough to delight the oneiric fans of the American director - from the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Barakah Meets Barakah

Mahmoud Sabbagh
2016

Victor Fraga - 06-10-2016

Cross-dressing in Saudi Arabia? Such a drag! Romantic comedy could be powerful venting outlet for oppressed Saudis, yet puerile and innocuous for hackneyed Western eyes used to less subtle subversions - right now from the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Kills on Wheels (Tiszta Szívvel)

Atilla Till
2016

Maysa Monção - 05-10-2016

The wrath of the wheelchairs: three Hungarian handicapped men rise against exclusion and prejudice by taking arms... and embracing a life of crime - this comedy-drama out in cinemas this week will derail your notions of disability [Read More...]

Dearest Sister

Mattie Do
2016

Victor Fraga - 05-10-2016

I see dead Asian people: sexual politics, colonialism, a blind girl and ghosts that know the lottery numbers - stick it all in the large gumbo of Southeast Asian horror and watch it simmer - the film is part of the BFI London Film Festival that starts this week [Read More...]

A Dark Song

Liam Gavin
2016

Maysa Monção - 04-10-2016

Hello, may I please speak to my dead son? This is no schlock, nail-biting horror, but an emotional trip into the dark secrets of Irish occultism [Read More...]

Zoology (Zoologiya)

Ivan Tverdovsky
2016

Victor Fraga - 03-10-2016

The tail of tales: Natasha has a very large and supple appendage to her trunk, just like most of the animals in zoo where she works; this modern Russian tale of the absurd is a dark and kinky comedy of social intolerance - now in cinemas and on BFI Player [Read More...]

The Bacchus Lady

E J-yong
2016

Maysa Monção - 01-10-2016

The strange lady of South Korea: unlikely motherly bond develops between old prostitute and rejected foreign child as they seek the boy's father - from the London Korean Film Festival [Read More...]

Ma’ Rosa

Brillante Mendoza
2016

Maysa Monção - 30-09-2016

A rose is a rose is a drug dealer: Filipino mother has to juggle the care for her three children with her meth business, until something goes tremedously awry, and the family has to reverse roles - from Cannes to the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Creepy

Kiyoshi Kurosawa
2016

Victor Fraga - 29-09-2016

Don't go into the basement! The Japanese hold very dark secrets in their cellar, and it's not mommy's stuffed corpse - Kurosawa's horror is now on Mubi! [Read More...]

In Between (Bar Bahar)

Maysaloun Hamoud
2016

Maysa Monção - 28-09-2016

Woman to woman: female filmmaker captures the lives of three Palestinian females, in all their glory and also in their struggle between the modern and the traditional, in a story full of compassion and solidarity - on DVD and VoD on January 29th [Read More...]

The Graduation (Le Concours)

Claire Simon
2016

Victor Fraga - 27-09-2016

The film exam of your life: what does it take to become a filmmaker? And what qualities are expected from a film student? Doc looks at the entry exams for one of the most prestigious film schools in France, and the outcome is rather unexpected - in selected cinemas [Read More...]

Moonlight

Barry Jenkins
2016

Victor Fraga - 26-09-2016

The moon enlightens but also it can also drive you insane: auspicious drama questions how to be simultaneously gay and black in a homophobic and drug-ridden community of Florida [Read More...]

Memory Exercises (Ejercicios de Memoria)

Paz Encina
2016

Maysa Monção - 25-09-2016

The American vulture that kills: families in Paraguay are still mourning and healing from the brutal acts and murders carried out as part of the infamous Operation Condor - taut yet tender movie is streaming now with DMovies [Read More...]

American Pastoral

Ewan McGregor
2016

Maysa Monção - 23-09-2016

Are wounds of the Newark riots still open? Read our verdict of Ewan McGregor's debut as a director, a film packed with social woes and family taboos [Read More...]

Sieranevada

Cristi Puiu
2016

Maysa Monção - 21-09-2016

It's NOT a wonderful life: a family reunion can be as pleasurable as a funeral and as controversial as an election debate; Romanian film epitomises the feuds of modern Europe [Read More...]

The Cambridge Squatter (Era o Hotel Cambridge)

Eliane Caffé
2016

Maysa Monção - 20-09-2016

The Brazilian melting pot at boiling point: Brazil has a long tradition of welcoming refugees and immigrants from all over the globe; this unusual blend of documentary and fiction exposes the wounds of these people as well as and the woes of the nation in a very urgent moment - showing in London [Read More...]

Nocturama

Bertrand Bornello
2016

Maysa Monção - 19-09-2016

A punch in the stomach: this film is as unexpected and powerful as the attacks it portrays - read our review of this sobering reflection on terrorism and the shortcomings of social integration in France - right now at the Official Selection of the San Sebastian Film Festival [Read More...]

Norfolk

Martin Radich
2016

Lina Samoili - 19-09-2016

Like mercenary, like son? Taut and somber thriller investigates the troubled relation of an adolescent and a father with very questionable morals whom he adores; Norfolk is out in cinemas right now [Read More...]

Because life’s too short

 

Lina Samoili - 16-09-2016

Encounters Film festival is one of the leading events in short film and animation in the UK and Europe; its 22nd edition takes place this week in Bristol, with a hot selection of politically-charged and socially-engaged movies, and a tribute to Ukrainian filmmaker Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy [Read More...]

Film curator for a day!

 

Maysa Monção - 16-09-2016

Rattle the world of cinema: joint initiative by the Barbican and Film London “What London Watches: Ten Films That Shook Our World” gives people like you the opportunity to pick a dirty film for the British capital to see; don't miss the deadline! [Read More...]

El Sur

Victor Erice
1983

Victor Fraga - 16-09-2016

Memories of my father: a young girl reconstructs her dad through a blend of recollections, dreams and allegories, in a tale set in a very somber and mournful Francoist Spain - this dirty classic is one of Almodóvar's favourite films, and it's showing at the BFI Southbank as part of a special Victor Erice season; also on VoD [Read More...]

Dare to Be Wild

Vivienne De Courcy
2016

Pedro Miguel - 13-09-2016

Power to the flower: biopic of Irish landscape designer Mary Reynolds provides a plush and superb portrait of nature, but does not analyse the broader impact of her work in detail [Read More...]

The Nobodies (Los Nadie)

Juan Sebastián Mesa
2016

Tiago Di Mauro - 12-09-2016

The crowning of the anarcho-punks: extremely low-budget Colombian movie about a group of five disenfrashised young rebels in Medellín wows Venice and takes home key critics' prize - now showing at Raindance [Read More...]

Deliver Us (Libera Nos)

Federica Di Giacomo
2016

Tiago Di Mauro - 10-09-2016

Demon-infested or moonstruck? Empathetic and non-intrusive doc gets under the skin of Italians 'possessed' by demons without passing judgment and breaking the dysfunctional characters - in cinemas [Read More...]

When Two Worlds Collide (El Choque de Dos Mundos)

Heidi Brandenburg/ Mathew Orzel
2016

Maysa Monção - 09-09-2016

Who are the real savages? Peruvian doc exposes government and police violence against indigenous people, and reveals a cynical and perverse notion of "savagery" - the film is out in cinemas now [Read More...]

The Untamed (La Región Salvaje)

Amat Escalante
2016

Tiago Di Mauro - 09-09-2016

Get ready for fleshly fun! A very salacious alien has crash-landed in Mexico, and right now it is giving earthlings explosive pleasures - on BFI Player on Thursday, March 17th [Read More...]

White Sun (Seto Surya)

Deepak Rauniyar
2016

Tiago Di Mauro - 08-09-2016

Is this the coming-of-age of Nepal? Colourful and yet taut fairy tale epitomises the woes of a nation, as people seek to reconcile their traditions with the country's first constitution - right now from Venice [Read More...]

Ben-Hur

Timur Bekmambetov
2016

Maysa Monção - 08-09-2016

The empire of clichés and didacticism: the 2016 3D version of the epic movie is populated with stereotypes, and it is also a thinly-veiled celebration of military belligerence in the Middle East - out in cinemas now [Read More...]

Frantz

François Ozon
2016

Tiago Di Mauro - 07-09-2016

The pinnacle of François Ozon's talent: the highly prolific French filmmaker travels back in time to the Weimar Republic in order to solve a death mystery, and excels in his elegant and elaborate style. [Read More...]

Home

Fien Troch
2016

Tiago Di Mauro - 07-09-2016

Broken parents, broken children? The challenge of bringing up children when you came from a dysfunctional background yourself - on VoD in April! [Read More...]

American Anarchist

Charlie Siskel
2016

Tiago Di Mauro - 06-09-2016

A recipe for disaster: book on how to make booby traps and homemade explosives written in the 1960s has served as inspiration for murderers in the US and beyond since - electrifying doc is right now at the Venice Film Festival [Read More...]

The Light between Oceans

Derek Cianfrance
2016

Tiago Di Mauro - 01-09-2016

Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander face a very painful moral dilemma, in this unabashed tearjerker set in Western Australia after World War I - live right now from the Venice Film Festival [Read More...]

‘Neon Bull’ at the Brazilian Embassy

 

DMovies team - 31-08-2016

Cinema screams against censorship: DMovies held the screening of 'Neon Bull' at the Brazilian Embassy in London last night; the film has recently become a symbol of resistance against reactionary forces and censorship - find out why! [Read More...]

High-rise buildings, kaleidoscopes and slimy stranglers

 

Maysa Monção - 31-08-2016

As the 60th BFI London Film Festival announces its programme, we interview the director 'Free Fire', the Festival's closing film. The British filmmaker Ben Wheatley talks about psychedelia, housing issues and his outrageously greasy connections. [Read More...]

The Closer We Get

Karen Guthrie
2016

Victor Fraga - 30-08-2016

The dark side of the family picture: extremely candid autobiographical doc reveals that family life can be disappointing and painful, but it is ultimately possible to achieve altruism, happiness and redemption - read our exclusive review and win DVDs and Blu-rays [Read More...]

Jim: The James Foley Story

Brian Oakes
2016

Victor Fraga - 29-08-2016

The romantic picture of a journalist: lengthy documentary sings the praises of American reporter James Foley - who encountered the most barbaric fate in the hands of Isis -, but fails to examine his professional achievements as a journalist - film is out in cinemas this week [Read More...]

Front Cover

Ray Yeung
2016

Pedro Miguel - 25-08-2016

Beyond "no fems" and "no Asians": this tasteful Chinese-American romance breaks away with gay bigoted stereotypes and culture, revealing an awkward and yet candid relationship [Read More...]

As I Open My Eyes (À Peine J’Ouvre les Yeux)

Leyla Bouzid
2015

Victor Fraga - 24-08-2016

Arab heads exploding with music: the female voice is one of the most subversive weapons against oppression in the Arab world, even in a fairly progressive country such as Tunisia - read our review of this superb Franco-Tunisian drama [Read More...]

Incident Light (La Luz Incidente)

Ariel Rotter
2016

Tiago Di Mauro - 19-08-2016

Is there light after tragedy strikes? This exquisite and poignant tale of loss and bereavement set in the 1960s is one of the highlights of the Argentine Film Festival taking place in London right now [Read More...]

Tickled

David Farrier/ Dylan Reeve
2016

Maysa Monção - 17-08-2016

No laughing matter: the very strange business of filming male adolescents tickling each other and then taking control over their lives - doc is out in cinemas on Friday [Read More...]

‘Neighbouring Sounds’ at the Brazilian Embassy

 

DMovies team - 17-08-2016

The strange noises of the middle class: last night London listened to the subtle and unnerving sounds of a high-rise condominium in Brazil, as DMovies screened one of the best films of the decade [Read More...]

Gary Numan: Android in La La Land

Steve Read/ Rob Alexander
2016

Maysa Monção - 15-08-2016

A robot with profound human feelings: this new doc about Gary Numan reveals the emotionally fragile human being and the ups and downs behind one of Britain's most poignant and innovative pop idols of the 1970s [Read More...]

The Unspoken

Sheldon Wilson
2015

Petra von Kant - 14-08-2016

From the producers of the 'Insidious' and 'Paranormal Activity' films, the new horror flick has some good scares and an unusual twist in the end, but overall it lacks flare and vigour throughout - out in the UK on DVD and Blu-ray [Read More...]

Carancho

Pablo Trapero
2011

Victor Fraga - 14-08-2016

The vultures are circling in: this Argentinian classic tells the story of an ambulance chaser and denounces a barely legal and highly unethical blame culture that destroys jobs, relationships and lives - at the Argentine Film Festival in London [Read More...]

Julieta

Pedro Almodóvar
2016

Victor Fraga - 13-08-2016

Almodóvar returns to what he does best: exposing the deliciously dirty incongruities, fallacies and virtues of human beings; this time he gets under the skin of women in an unusually sober and austere drama [Read More...]

Dimona Twist

Michal Aviad
2016

Lina Samoili - 12-08-2016

The women of the desert: how did these modern young women start a new life and a build a society in the middle of the desert in the early years of Israel? Michal Avid's doc is a tribute to female strength and resilience [Read More...]

The Clan (El Clan)

Pablo Trapero
2015

Maysa Monção - 10-08-2016

The proud face of torturers in South America: superb thriller reveals the most disturbing side of the most vile and feared zealots of a military dictatorship: they play rugby, dance and mingle with us - Pablo Tropero's latest flick is now in cinemas [Read More...]

Ben-Gurion: Epilogue

Yariv Mozer
2016

Victor Fraga - 09-08-2016

Is this the friendly face of Israel? New doc reveals unforeseen interview with the founder of Israel after he retired from politics; we see an avuncular and apparently balanced old man, but his rhetoric is sometimes ambiguous - from the Jewish Film Festival [Read More...]

Nicolas Roeg: It’s about Time

David Thompson
2016

Maysa Monção - 08-08-2016

RIP NICOLAS ROEG, WHO HAS PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 90 - The man who manipulated time and confronted the Brits with sex: watch the history of one of Britain's most subversive filmmakers, who authored 'Performance', 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' and 'Don't Look Now' - the documentary about the now octogenarian filmmaker is available on BBC Player [Read More...]

Twenty Twenty-Four

Richard Mundy
2016

Victor Fraga - 08-08-2016

It's the end of the world (and I don't feel fine): this brand new indie apocalyptic flick cleverly blends elements from your favourite sci-fi flicks, with some very unusual and creative twists - now on VoD [Read More...]

Dugma: The Button

Pål Refsdal
2016

Victor Fraga - 07-08-2016

A push of a button away from paradise: documentary reveals the intimacy of suicide bombers as they prepare to strike in Syria, and their routine is strangely banal and mundane - right now at DokuFest and also at the iTunes store [Read More...]

The Olympic coup last night

 

Victor Fraga - 06-08-2016

Brazilian giant TV Globo last night drowned out the booing of Brazil's deeply corrupt and illegitimate interim president Michel Temer and replaced it with clapping instead during the opening of the Rio Olympics. Globo filthy manipulation tactics were first exposed decades ago in the British documentary 'Beyond Citizen Kane' [Read More...]

A Kind of Loving

John Schlesinger
1962

Victor Fraga - 05-08-2016

What's love got to do with it? This restored kitchen sink drama is a subtle investigation of British working-class aspirations and values in the 1960s, and the difficult choices people had to make. It is now available for the first time on Blu-ray [Read More...]

Sid and Nancy

Alex Cox
1986

Maysa Monção - 04-08-2016

Furious music, sickly bodies: this classic biopic offers a glimpse into the lives of the boisterous and dysfunctional first couple of punk music, with a fascinating performance from Gary Oldman - the movie is out in cinemas again this Friday [Read More...]

Fireflies in The Abyss

Chandrasekhar Reddy
2016

Lina Samoili - 03-08-2016

Immigrants or insects? The exploitation of the less-favoured - particularly the foreign-born - is not exclusive to Europe; this Indian documentary reveals that working conditions of Nepali coal miners in India goes beyond slavery [Read More...]

Fists in The Pocket (I Pugni in Tasca)

Marco Bellocchio
1965

Maysa Monção - 02-08-2016

A fist on the face of the Italian bourgeoisie: Marco Bellochio's early masterpiece has now been restored, and you can now see the real colours of a deeply corrupt social system - from Cinema Rediscovered [Read More...]

Tower

Keith Maitland
2016

Art Haxhijakupi - 01-08-2016

Just a little bit of tragic history repeating: rotoscope animation doc about the 1966 Charles Whitman massacre in Texas comes out at a time when Germany is healing from a remarkably similar event [Read More...]

The hills of Kosovo are alive with cinema

 

Art Haxhijakupi - 31-07-2016

See the new face of Kosovo in the charming medieval town of Prizren, as one of the most important documentary film festivals in Europe hits the fast-changing nation in the Balkans; Dokufest starts this Friday [Read More...]

Big Jato

Cláudio Assis
2016

Victor Fraga - 28-07-2016

Can you handle the putrid and malodorous truth, or you prefer to chase your fragrant dreams? Brand new Brazilian film by one of our favourite dirty directors is an stinking ode to the reverie of a young poet [Read More...]

Author: The JT LeRoy Story

Jeff Feuerzeig
2016

Maysa Monção - 27-07-2016

The author who never was: meet the multiple aliases of author Laura Albert and her literary persona JT LeRoy. By the end of this documentary, you will be even more befuddled by her (or his?) real identity [Read More...]

The Killing$ of Tony Blair

Sanne van den Bergh/ Greg Ward
2016

Victor Fraga - 26-07-2016

George Galloway's crowdfunded documentary is an extremely insightful investigation into the history of a highly manipulative and self-serving politician who not just killed not just one million people in Iraq, but also destroyed the faith in his own party [Read More...]

Crime is Punishment (Kutrame Thandanai)

M. Manikandan
2016

Maysa Monção - 25-07-2016

An eye for a lie: this Indian thriller has elements of Hitchcock and Dostoyevsky, but the moralistic tone prevails over the subversive aspects of the movie - from the London Indian Film Festival [Read More...]

The City of The Future

Cláudio Marques/ Marília Hughes
2016

Tiago Di Mauro - 24-07-2016

Brazilians can teach the world a thing or two about romance; this brand new drama about polyamorous love in the most unlikely of places will open your heart and your mind, in good and old-fashioned South American way [Read More...]

The strange beauty of decaying theatres

 

Victor Fraga - 23-07-2016

Many glorious theatres from the past decades have now fallen into oblivion, leaving behind ghostly sites where decay and elegance dwell harmoniously - photographer Julia Solis has captured them with her lens [Read More...]

Play it again Sam, it’s been such a long time!

 

Maysa Monção - 22-07-2016

Cinema Rediscovered gives your favourite film classics a new lease of life through painstaking restoration and cinema exhibition; the Italo-British event takes place this month in Bristol [Read More...]

‘Rat Fever’ at the Brazilian Embassy

 

Dirty Movies team - 21-07-2016

The heat got to everyone's head this Tuesday at the Brazilian Embassy in London, as Dirty Movies screened one of the hottest Brazilian movies of the present, followed by a sweltering debate with Jean Wyllys, Brian Robinson and Lucia Nagib, with a scorching temperature outside [Read More...]

Dirty Yellow Darkness (Premaya Nam)

Kalpana Ariyawansa/ Vindana Ariyawansa
2016

Maysa Monção - 20-07-2016

What if you were scared of your own urine? Documentary about OCD patient in Sri Lanka with a very strange obsession is part of the London Indian Film Festival taking place this week [Read More...]

Toba Tek Singh

Ketan Mehta
2016

Victor Fraga - 19-07-2016

REMEMBER THE PARTITION: The pains of Partition of India and Pakistan drove the newborn twin nations mad in the late 1940s; but what if if you were already insane before the divide? [Read More...]

Naanu Avanalla Avalu

B. S. Lingadevaru
2016

Victor Fraga - 18-07-2016

Third gender, third category? The Hijra trans women of India struggle for social inclusion, despite being legally recognised since 2014. Colourful and boisterous tale of a transgender female fighting for acceptance is one of the highlights of the London Indian Film festival this week [Read More...]

Death by Design

Sue Williams
2016

Dirty Movies team - 17-07-2016

Your smartphone is killing swathes of people and arable land in countries like China, with big corporations deftly avoiding liability by simply outsourcing the dirty side of manufacturing to countries with lax labour and environmental legislation - watch this very sobering documentary and fix your murky habits now [Read More...]

The Goodbye Kiss of the Spiderman

 

Maysa Monção - 15-07-2016

The bittersweet memories of the day I interviewed Hector Babenco: the Brazilian auteur of 'Pixote', 'Kiss of the Spider Woman' and 'Carandiru' - who died earlier this week - had a very painful sting, just like his movies [Read More...]

Frank

Richard Heslop
2012

Victor Fraga - 14-07-2016

Everyone has a skeleton or two in their closet; some people even have a corpse. So why not get them out and talk to them? British filmmaker does just that in this deliciously repulsive celebration of insanity [Read More...]

Desert Migration

Daniel Cardone
2015

Victor Fraga - 13-07-2016

The gay Ballad of Narayama? Gay Americans living with HIV move to the desert as they get older, where they calmly wait for their deaths, seek spiritual healing and community support [Read More...]

Olmo and The Seagull (Olmo e a Gaivota)

Petra Costa/ Lea Glob
2016

Maysa Monção - 12-07-2016

Does being a mother make you a better person? This hybrid and very international doc-fiction examines the impact of maternity on a woman's personal life and work, with Chekhov's 'The Seagull' as the backdrop [Read More...]

A Bigger Splash

Luca Guadagnino
2016

Maysa Monção - 11-07-2016

This modern remake of 1969's Franco-Italian erotic classic 'The Swimming Pool' deep dives into personal rediscovery, adultery and murder in the sunny Italian island of Lampedusa - read our review and win three DVDs or Blu-rays of the movie [Read More...]

Shadows

John Cassavetes
1959

Maysa Monção - 09-07-2016

Racism in the shadows: John Cassavetes's first film explored the dark corners of American society and exposed cordial racism more than five decades ago - it is now available to watch on DVD, Blu-ray and online [Read More...]

Mallory

Helena Třeštíková
2016

Tiago Di Mauro - 08-07-2016

Lighting up the dull flame of hope: closely follow the steps of Czech heroin-addict Mallory as she lives through and finally overcomes 13 years of drug hell - in inspiring documentary offering hope to those who need it the most [Read More...]

The Sacrifice

Andrei Tarkovsky
1986

Victor Fraga - 06-07-2016

Europe is under attack, with people devising a catastrophic liberation strategy, picking the wrong saviours and even sacrificing their own land - Tarkovsky's classic from 1986 is out in the cinemas this week and it remains strangely current and accurate 30 years later [Read More...]

The most radical film twist

 

Victor Fraga - 05-07-2016

The Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami hasn't died; he's just toying with us as he carries out his latest cinematic experiment [Read More...]

Uncle Howard

Aaron Brookner
2016

Maysa Monção - 04-07-2016

The man who filmed William S. Burroughs: documentary rescues the legacy of young, audacious and prematurely silenced filmmaker Howard Brookner, who captured the Beat poet and his fellow writers in an entirely unforeseen way [Read More...]

Transit Havana

Daniel Abma
2016

Petra von Kant - 03-07-2016

A social paradise for sexual diversity or an oppressive military regime? The life of transsexuals in modern-day Cuba is full of paradoxes - new documentary at the East End Film Festival in London reveals [Read More...]

Kettling of The Voices

Chester Yang
2016

Victor Fraga - 01-07-2016

Police brutality that muffles democratic protests: students demonstrating against a rise in tuition fees in 2010 encountered a very violent and unexpected enemy - this investigative documentary is showing at the East End Film Festival [Read More...]

Desire Will Set You Free

Yony Leyser
2016

Victor Fraga - 30-06-2016

Meander through the colourful and hedonistic queer scene of Berlin populated with exotic characters and manifold sexualities, in this new LGBT flick at the East End Film Festival in London [Read More...]

Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape

Zack Taylor
2016

Maysa Monção - 30-06-2016

Where have all the cassette tapes gone? Documentary explores the die-hard world of tape enthusiasts, and dives into a new factory of the obsolete technology in the US - from the East End Film Festival in London [Read More...]

The Lost Arcade

Kurt Vincent
2016

Victor Fraga - 28-06-2016

The lost love for social games: documentary explores the longing and the nostalgia that replaced the jolly and bustling video game arcades that dotted the US in the 1980s [Read More...]

Depth Two (Dubina Dva)

Ognjen Glavonic
2016

Victor Fraga - 27-06-2016

The red Danube: the wounds of genocide carried out by Milosevic in the Balkans show in the walls, on the land and even in the waters of the River Danube - hypnotic documentary entrances audiences and takes home the main award at the Open City Documentary Festival in London [Read More...]

Roundabout in My Head

Hassan Ferhani
2015

Maysa Moncao - 26-06-2016

Cows in a slaughterhouse remain strong and resilient despite their horrific predicament, just like colonised people; this riveting documentary is a very graphic metaphor of European colonisation in Algeria [Read More...]

Helmut Berger, Actor

Andreas Horvath
2016

Maysa Monção - 24-06-2016

Luchino Visconti’s muse and lover is now a paranoid septuagenarian recluse, but he remains as manipulative and obstinate as ever - find out more about Helmut Berger's outrageous personality in this documentary at the Open City Documentary Festival [Read More...]

Poor Cow

Ken Loach
1967

Victor Fraga - 24-06-2016

Ken Loach's realistic classic from 1967 rescues the discreet charm of the British working class and portrays the nation in all of its insular magnificence - on BritBox on Thursday, June 9th [Read More...]

‘The Dead Girl’s Feast’ at the Brazilian Embassy

 

Dirty Movies team - 23-06-2016

A heady mixture of religious fanaticism and insanity from the Amazon intoxicated the Brazilian Embassy this Wednesday, as Dirty Movies held the screening of this often overlooked Brazilian movie [Read More...]

Another Year

Shengze Zhu
2016

Maysa Monção - 22-06-2016

Rural, loud, poor and with many children: this is a very intimate and at times disturbing portrait of a side of China very few people are familiar with - showing this week at the Open City Documentary Film Festival [Read More...]

The Great Wall

Tadhg O’Sullivan
2016

Victor Fraga - 21-06-2016

There is a wall protecting Europe from the "cruel" people of the South - astounding documentary opening the Open City Documentary Festival in London takes a Kafkan look at how European perceive their nether neighbours [Read More...]

Influx

Luca Vullo
2016

Maysa Monção - 20-06-2016

As the EU referendum approaches, our Italo-Brazilian writer Maysa Monção Gabrielli looks at the film 'Influx' - about the Italian migrant community in London - and makes a plea for our readers to vote 'Remain' [Read More...]

Chasing Robert Barker

Daniel Florêncio
2016

Victor Fraga - 19-06-2016

In the eyes of a paparazzo, London is a glitzy and yet morally decadent place - watch this stylish and bleak tale of loneliness and oppression in the British capital, by debutant director [Read More...]

The face with two voices

 

Maysa Monção - 18-06-2016

Simone Kirby had to move her body and lips to real conversations recorded in old K7 tapes in the film 'Notes from Blindness', leaving behind her own voice; the result is a major achievement of dramaturgy - read our interview with the Irish actress [Read More...]

Footprint

Valentina Canavesio
2016

Maysa Monção - 17-06-2016

Too many people, too much stuff: poor countries fail to control birth rate, while their rich counterparts are unable to manage overconsumption; the Earth pays the price [Read More...]

India in a Day

Richie Mehta
2016

Victor Fraga - 16-06-2016

Is it possible to travel through India in just one day? See the Asian country filmed by ordinary locals during a single day - in brand new Google documentary produced by Ridley Scott [Read More...]

Notes on Blindness

Peter Middleton/ James Spinney
2016

Maysa Monção - 15-06-2016

The register of the unseen - audacious British filmmakers and talented actors team up and reimagine the sightless world of the late John Hull, based K7 on recordings that the blind man made in the 1980s [Read More...]

The Confession

Ashish Ghadiali
2016

Maysa Monção - 14-06-2016

Are Jihadis bloodthirsty loonies or is there a noble side to their mission? This tête-à-tête duel between filmmaker and Muslim warrior has the answer - live now from the Sheffield Doc Fest [Read More...]

Dirty Pretty Things

2002
Stephen Frears

Victor Fraga - 13-06-2016

Is it dirty being illegal? As the EU referendum approaches, DMovies remembers Stephen Frears' dirty classic and reflects upon immigration, illegal beings and stigmatisation [Read More...]

Leaving Vogue Moran

Wayne Mahon
2016

Tiago Di Mauro - 13-06-2016

My love for transsexual women: small town American Wayne Mahon comes out to his father, thereby recording his journey from recluse to proud lover - here's the register [Read More...]

Rwanda & Juliet

Ben Proudfoot
2016

Maysa Monção - 12-06-2016

'Til death do us part: the tragic love of Romeo and Juliet is a metaphor for the Rwandan genocide, and it also offers hope for the orphans of the tragedy - in new documentary right now at the Sheffield Doc Fest [Read More...]

The Music of Strangers: Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble

Morgan Neville
2016

Maysa Monção - 12-06-2016

Make music, not war: what happens when you put together musicians from entirely different cultural, social and political backgrounds? A beautiful explosion of sounds - out in cinemas now! [Read More...]

God’s Acre

J.P. Davidson
2015

Victor Fraga - 11-06-2016

Property, debts and fear of eviction turn into a vivid nightmare, as urban anxieties haunt a lonely and deranged Malcolm - in this elegant psychological thriller/horror set in London. [Read More...]

Michael Moore answers our dirty questions

 

Maysa Monção - 09-06-2016

As the controversial American director hits the UK with his new movie 'Where to Invade Next'. Dirty Movies asks him some bombastic questions about the role of the US in the recent coup d'état in Brazil; he also talks about Corbyn and Brexit [Read More...]

Ambulance

Mohamed Jabaly
2016

Victor Fraga - 09-06-2016

An insider's view from Gaza: as Israeli missiles relentless hit the Palestinian territory for 51 days two years ago, filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly jumped on an ambulance and captured the disturbing reality firsthand [Read More...]

‘Batguano’ at the Brazilian Embassy

 

Dirty Movies team - 09-06-2016

A exotic creature flew into the Brazilian Embassy last night, as Dirty Movies held the screening of the post-apocalyptic, homosexual and Brazilian superhero film 'Batguano' - see the pictures and find out what happened [Read More...]

Ivan’s Childhood

Andrei Tarkovsky
1962

Victor Fraga - 08-06-2016

Tarkovsky held a dirty mirror to the war machine in his debut feature more than 50 years ago, both the director and the film epitomising DMovies like few others - the movie acquires a new relevance during the Ukrainian War [Read More...]

Where You’re Meant to Be

Paul Fegan
2016

Maysa Monção - 07-06-2016

Singer Aidan Moffat takes you a smooth ride through the Scottish landscape to the sound of folk music, reuniting with the ancient traditions of his homeland - in this new documentary out this week [Read More...]

Embrace of the Serpent (El Abrazo de la Serpiente)

Ciro Guerra
2015

Maysa Monção - 06-06-2016

A tale of two cultures: this visually astounding and impressively elegant Colombian film portrays the encounter of a German explorer and an indigenous warrior - from Tiff Romania [Read More...]

Life, Animated

Roger Ross Williams
2016

Maysa Monção - 05-06-2016

What if cinema was the only means of communication between a young boy and the rest of his family? Sobering doc sheds light on the saga of an autistic child who loves Disney - now on Netflix [Read More...]

Care

Deirdre Fishel
2016

Tiago Di Mauro - 03-06-2016

Do the shortcomings of the old age care system in the US represent the collapse of neo-liberalism and the American dream? Our new writer Tiago Di Mauro reviews the featurette 'Care' [Read More...]

The Greasy Strangler

Jim Hosking
2016

Maysa Monção - 03-06-2016

How do you bake a dirty movie and become a hit in the UK? Maysa Monção has the exclusive recipe for you [Read More...]

Goat

Andrew Neel
2016

Maysa Monção - 02-06-2016

Hazing, drug use, bestiality and many other fraternity passing rituals: this very American college film is a tale of violence and twisted masculinity produced by James Franco - live right now from the Sundance London Film Festival [Read More...]

Wiener-Dog

Todd Solondz
2016

Maysa Monção - 01-06-2016

The dark and cynical genius of Todd Solondz is back, this time in the shape of a canine antihero - but sadly the creature fails to bite the viewers [Read More...]

Morris from America

Chad Hartigan
2016

Maysa Monção - 01-06-2016

Is this featurette the American 'The Tin Drum'? Our first review from the Sundance London Film Festival is the heart-rending of an American boy in Germany struggling with the cultural shock and refusing to grow up [Read More...]

Golden Dawn: a Personal Affair

Angélique Kourounis​
2016

Victor Fraga - 31-05-2016

Can you be impartial when your family integrity is at stake? Documentary investigates the rise of the far-right in Greece, police complacency and the implications for foreigners and for liberal activists living in the Balkan nation. [Read More...]

I Shot Bi Kidude

Andy Jones
2015

Maysa Monção - 29-05-2016

One of the oldest singers in the world, and a woman who liberated African music and women rights through her own silent personal revolution - is subject to the eye of a very European documentary-maker [Read More...]

Versus – The Life and Films of Ken Loach

Louise Osmond
2016

Victor Fraga - 28-05-2016

The well-mannered cricket-lover who quietly confronts the mighty British media and right-wing establishment - new documentary is out in cinemas on Friday with pay-what-you-can access [Read More...]

The Measure of a Man (La Loi du Marché)

Stéphane Brizé
2015

Maysa Monção - 26-05-2016

The split allegiances of the ordinary man: in this new French movie, worker Thierry cannot decide whether to side with undignified coworkers and customers or to embrace the corporate values that earlier almost crushed his life [Read More...]

Hooligan Sparrow

Nanfu Wang
2016

Petra von Kant - 25-05-2016

Undercover filming is a lifesaver for a group of female human rights activists in China denouncing widespread child abuse and dodging government repression - find out why in this new Chinese documentary [Read More...]

Electroshocking Brazil

 

Victor Fraga - 24-05-2016

The neoliberal agenda of the United States has already electroshocked Chile, Russia and Iraq into chaos. Is Brazil next on the list? - DMovies sheds new light on the documentary 'The Shock Doctrine' [Read More...]

Sold

Jeffrey D. Brown
2014

Maysa Monção - 22-05-2016

How much does this girl cost? American production by Emma Thompson exposes the dirty ways of child trafficking in India, to convincing results [Read More...]

The Russian master of dirt is in town

 

Victor Fraga - 20-05-2016

A complete retrospective of the emblematic - and Dirty Movies' favourite - Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky takes place in London in the next few weeks, including special talks and Q&As [Read More...]

Battle for Sevastopol

Serhiy Mokrytskyi
2015

Victor Fraga - 19-05-2016

Women on the frontline, blood galore and romance - this is the Second World War in a movie with a very Russian perspective and very American aesthetics [Read More...]

Look me in the eyes!!!

 

Maysa Monção - 18-05-2016

When cinema comes to life: talk to a robot about love, war and the universe, jump on a refugee boat and experience life inside a migrant detention centre in the UK - in the Alternate Realities programme of the Sheffield Doc/Fest [Read More...]

Under the red carpet of Cannes

 

Maysa Monção - 17-05-2016

Beyond pomp and circumstance: Dirty Movies lifts the red carpet in Cannes and uncovers the most audacious and promising projects being hatched at the event [Read More...]

Departure

Andrew Steggall
2016

Victor Fraga - 16-05-2016

It's not just love that dares not speak it name. In this gentle and complex British drama set in the astounding French countryside, most characters are unable to verbalise their sentiments [Read More...]

Teenage stamina knows no borders

 

Dirty Movies team - 12-05-2016

Adolescents from Kenya and Israel get behind the camera and exude creativity in three short films exhibited today in the Cannes Film Festival - in initiative by UK charity Films without Borders [Read More...]

The Return

Kelly Duane de la Vega/ Katie Galloway
2016

Petra von Kant - 11-05-2016

Better inside or outside? The social "reentry" system for former prisoners in the US has severe flaws, leaving many African Americans marginalised and unable to reintegrate - new documentary explores [Read More...]

Flotel Europa

Vladimir Tomic
2016

Maysa Monção - 10-05-2016

Bosnian refugees float for years in a makeshift "flotel" on the canals of Copenhagen, in a real-life allegory of Europe's humanitarian disaster - in new documentary made by a refugee [Read More...]

Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art

James Crump
2016

Maysa Monção - 09-05-2016

This mesmerising documentary reveals the little-known American "dirt" artists from the '60s and '70s, who transformed the American deserts and the Earth into a giant canvas - the picture above was captured by helicopter [Read More...]

The Firm

Alan Clarke
1989

Victor Fraga - 06-05-2016

Alan Clarke's last film is a twisted tale of hooliganism, extreme violence and flawed working-class heroes, with a young Gary Oldman - find out how to watch it [Read More...]

John, ’tis the time to go to Sheffield!

 

Dirty Movies team - 05-05-2016

A very impressive selection of world documentaries, plus a virtual realities exhibition, will hit Sheffield next month; we will bring the best of them to you firsthand [Read More...]

Save the Ronnie Scott’s of cinema!

 

Maysa Monção - 04-05-2016

The Curzon Soho is much more than a repertoire cinema with an impressive history: it is a meeting point for the gay community, cinema professionals and dirty film lovers; sadly it is now under threat [Read More...]

Symptoms

José Ramón Larraz
1974

Petra von Kant - 03-05-2016

Complete with lesbian ghostly sex, this chilling, lost and forgotten very British horror movie from 1974 has now been found and restored, and it is guaranteed to give you nightmares [Read More...]

Made in Britain

Alan Clarke
1983

Victor Fraga - 02-05-2016

Exacerbated national pride, white supremacy and violence: director Alan Clarke and a young Tim Roth provide a realistic portrait of skinhead culture in Britain in this dirty classic movie [Read More...]

Globo and the coup: just history repeating

 

Victor Fraga - 28-04-2016

British documentary from 1993 exposed the dirty tactics of Brazil's TV giant Globo; Dirty Movies reveals that little has changed since and they are now playing a pivotal role in staging a coup d'état in the country [Read More...]

Men & Chicken (Mænd & Høns)

Anders Thomas Jensen
2016

Maysa Monção - 27-04-2016

Chickens don’t have external genitalia, instead they procreate using their cloaca and no penetration is involved - can you do the same? [Read More...]

LOEV

Sudhanshu Saria
2016

Victor Fraga - 26-04-2016

This gripping and audacious movie about the complexity of homosexual relations takes place in India, where 'the love that dare not speak its name' is now a crime [Read More...]

Icaros: a Vision

Leonor Caraballo/ Matteo Norzi
2016

Maysa Monção - 26-04-2016

Astounding Peruvian fiction movie reveals the sobering side of the increasingly popular hallucinogenic drug ayahuasca - take an exclusive psychedelic trip with DMovies for three evenings only in July 5th-7th [Read More...]

The Darkest Universe

Will Sharpe/ Tom Kingsley
2016

Victor Fraga - 25-04-2016

Family relations are often narrow and gloomy, just like the boat tunnels in London - this powerful new British movie is a profound meditation on human fallacies [Read More...]