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  • Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project (1999)

    1. The Blair Witch Project

    19991h 21mR80Metascore
    6.5 (305K)
    Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.
    DirectorsDaniel MyrickEduardo SánchezStarsHeather DonahueMichael C. WilliamsJoshua Leonard
  • Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, and Oscar Martínez in Official Competition (2021)

    2. Official Competition

    20211h 55mR79Metascore
    7.0 (17K)
    A wealthy businessman hires a famous filmmaker to help make a smash hit film.
    DirectorsMariano CohnGastón DupratStarsPenélope CruzAntonio BanderasOscar Martínez
  • Virgins of Sherwood Forest (2000)

    3. Virgins of Sherwood Forest

    20001h 20mRVideo
    3.6 (448)
    Roberta is a low-budget movie director dealing with numerous problems on the set of her current production. When she is accidently hit on the head, she is knocked unconscious and dreams of living in Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest.
    DirectorCybil RichardsStarsGabriella HallShannan LeighAmber Newman
  • Virginie Efira and Adèle Exarchopoulos in Sibyl (2019)

    4. Sibyl

    20191h 41mNot Rated59Metascore
    6.0 (6.1K)
    A jaded psychotherapist returns to her first passion of becoming a writer. However, her life is complicated by a desperate film actress who wants her help, and who draws her into a world of questionable ethics.
    DirectorJustine TrietStarsVirginie EfiraAdèle ExarchopoulosGaspard Ulliel
  • Lulu on the Bridge (1998)

    5. Lulu on the Bridge

    19981h 43mPG-13
    6.2 (4.4K)
    A famous jazz saxophonist's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.
    DirectorPaul AusterStarsHarvey KeitelMira SorvinoRichard Edson
  • Louis Garrel in This Is My Body (2001)

    6. This Is My Body

    20011h 27m
    5.3 (239)
    Young student Antoine jumps off studies to follow an acting career, and is offered a main role after a boy who killed himself after a fling with the director.
    DirectorRodolphe MarconiStarsLouis GarrelJane BirkinElisabeth Depardieu
  • Valeria Bertuccelli and Graciela Borges in Widows (2011)

    7. Widows

    20111h 40m
    6.3 (656)
    A married man's death puts his widow and mistress in an unusual living arrangement.
    DirectorMarcos CarnevaleStarsGraciela BorgesValeria BertuccelliRita Cortese
  • Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts (2013)

    8. Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts

    20131h 23m
    5.5 (126)
    At the film festival in Cannes, young director Isabell fights against her incompetent producer and the stone age stereotype attitude in film business.
    DirectorIsabell SubaStarsAnne HaugMatthias WeidenhöferEva Bay
  • Privilege (1990)

    9. Privilege

    19901h 43m
    7.1 (142)
    Privilege is an intelligently-conceived, boldly-anarchic, and wickedly-insightful exposition on the culturally-ingrained and socially-divisive malaise of isms that artificially define and characterize empowerment in contemporary society: ageism, sexism, economic elitism, and racism. Yvonne Rainer conveys texture through the inter-cutting of archival footage, video, and film, as well as compositional layering through the film-within-a-film structure, elliptical (and self-referential) fusion of past and present, and the filmmaker's idiosyncratic penchant for superimposed typed text.
    DirectorYvonne RainerStarsDaniel Martin BerkeyBlaire BaronGabrielle Made
  • Let There Be Light (1998)

    10. Let There Be Light

    19981h 50m
    6.4 (161)
    A comedy in which God writes a screenplay and goes to earth to find someone to make the film.
    DirectorArthur JofféStarsHélène de FougerollesTchéky KaryoTicky Holgado
  • Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard in Humpday (2009)

    11. Humpday

    20091h 34mR74Metascore
    6.0 (6.5K)
    Two guys take their bromance to another level when they participate in an art film project.
    DirectorLynn SheltonStarsMark DuplassJoshua LeonardAlycia Delmore
  • Aubrey Plaza in Black Bear (2020)

    12. Black Bear

    20201h 44mR79Metascore
    6.5 (17K)
    A filmmaker at a creative impasse seeks solace from her tumultuous past at a rural retreat, only to find that the woods summon her inner demons in intense and surprising ways.
    DirectorLawrence Michael LevineStarsAubrey PlazaChristopher AbbottSarah Gadon
  • The Watermelon Woman (1996)

    13. The Watermelon Woman

    19961h 25mUnrated74Metascore
    7.1 (4.5K)
    A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.
    DirectorCheryl DunyeStarsCheryl DunyeGuinevere TurnerValarie Walker
  • The Visit (2015)

    14. The Visit

    20151h 34mPG-1355Metascore
    6.3 (166K)
    Two siblings become increasingly frightened by their grandparents' disturbing behavior while visiting them on vacation.
    DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsOlivia DeJongeEd OxenbouldDeanna Dunagan
  • Emma Thompson, Shabana Azmi, Shazad Latif, Lily James, Asim Chaudhry, and Sajal Ali in What's Love Got to Do with It? (2022)

    15. What's Love Got to Do with It?

    20221h 48mPG-1359Metascore
    6.3 (12K)
    In London, an award-winning film-maker documents her best friend's journey into an assisted marriage in line with his family's Pakistani heritage. In the process, she challenges her own attitude towards relationships.
    DirectorShekhar KapurStarsMim ShaikhIman BoujelouahLily James
  • Isabelle Huppert and Kool Shen in Abuse of Weakness (2013)

    16. Abuse of Weakness

    20131h 44mUnrated77Metascore
    5.9 (1.4K)
    A stroke-afflicted filmmaker is manipulated by a notorious con man.
    DirectorCatherine BreillatStarsIsabelle HuppertKool ShenLaurence Ursino
  • Ethan Hawke, Winona Ryder, and Ben Stiller in Reality Bites (1994)

    17. Reality Bites

    19941h 39mPG-1367Metascore
    6.6 (56K)
    A documentary filmmaker and her fellow Generation X graduates face life after college, looking for work and love in Houston.
    DirectorBen StillerStarsWinona RyderEthan HawkeJaneane Garofalo
  • Sex Is Comedy (2002)

    18. Sex Is Comedy

    20021h 32mR63Metascore
    5.7 (3.2K)
    A director struggles to film a difficult, intimate sex scene between two actors who happen to hate each other.
    DirectorCatherine BreillatStarsAnne ParillaudGrégoire ColinRoxane Mesquida
  • Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

    19. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

    20142h 3mPG-1364Metascore
    6.6 (529K)
    Katniss Everdeen is in District 13 after she shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta and a nation moved by her courage.
    DirectorFrancis LawrenceStarsJennifer LawrenceJosh HutchersonLiam Hemsworth
  • Dinner and a Movie (2001)

    20. Dinner and a Movie

    20011h 25m
    7.6 (55)
    A determined documentary filmmaker will do almost anything to raise money for her film, even if it means taking a side gig directing a ridiculous TV show on dating.
    DirectorLisa KorsStarsMarianne HaganMike DoolyPaul Bartel
  • Fair Sex (2012)

    21. Fair Sex

    20121h 29m
    6.7 (115)
    Would-be filmmaker Sophie left Africa for Canada as a child. After graduating, she films the daily doings as part of a summer job at a fair. When pointing the camera at herself, she reveals painful secrets from the past..
    DirectorMartin LarocheStarsMarie-Evelyne LessardMarc-André BrunetNormand Daoust
  • Vincent D'Onofrio, Hope Davis, and Kimber Riddle in Guy (1996)

    22. Guy

    19961h 34mR
    6.1 (608)
    A young woman with a camera follows a man around to make a documentary about him, something he is not very happy with.
    DirectorMichael Lindsay-HoggStarsVincent D'OnofrioHope DavisKimber Riddle
  • In the Shadow of Women (2015)

    23. In the Shadow of Women

    20151h 13mNot Rated74Metascore
    6.4 (1.6K)
    Pierre and Manon are a pair of poor documentary makers, who scrape by with odd jobs. When Pierre meets young trainee Elisabeth, he falls for her, but wants to keep Manon at the same time. But the new girl in his life finds out that Manon has a lover. When she tells Pierre, the time comes for difficult decisions all round.
    DirectorPhilippe GarrelStarsClotilde CourauStanislas MerharLena Paugam
  • Diane Gaeta in Other People's Children (2015)

    24. Other People's Children

    20151h 25m25Metascore
    5.6 (173)
    A filmmaker, reeling from the death of her famous father, falls down the rabbit hole of a charismatic homeless man who becomes the subject of her latest documentary and her new love interest.
    DirectorLiz HinleinStarsDiane GaetaChad Michael MurrayMichael Mosley
  • Carnifex (2022)

    25. Carnifex

    20221h 33m
    4.8 (1.3K)
    An aspiring documentarian and two conservationists who venture into the Outback to record the animals displaced by bushfires where they discover a terrifying new species.
    DirectorSean LahiffStarsAlexandra ParkSisi StringerHarry Greenwood

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