Cinema Verite Movies

For five years, Stephen McCoy documented street life in Boston. This is what he captured.

Cuban drummer Elvis García reflects on his journey from Havana to Miami, struggling to make his way in the American city as a professional...

Young, inexperienced members of the Dutch Boarder Patrol undergo an intensive training on escorting refused asylum seekers to their homeland.

Struggling to survive on the margins of society, two outcasts manage to build a beautiful friendship as they face loss and hardship.

Four years after Pour la suite du monde (1963), director Pierre Perrault asks Alexis Tremblay if he'll agree to travel with his wife Marie to the...

A cinema verite study of the world of the blue-collar worker and the economic and psychological bind in which he is caught.

Tibetan Buddhist search for the meaning of death in an unforgiving Himalayan landscape and stir compassion by uncovering human truths

Filmmaker Adrian Beqiri was gearing up to make his magnum opus experimental film 'Adventures Of A Posthuman Through Time And Space' but now the...

A portrait of Chicagoland ICU nurse Jeanette Alvarez-Basem captured through the perspective of her son Ben Basem. Between her night shifts and...

A day in the life of a train station.

Oum Karim, a 60-year-old Beiruti lady, is used to preparing Lahm Bi Ajin (Lebanese ham pie) once per week.

A documentary about an Iowa artist who made his career from two antique photo albums that he found in the trash. It has been four years since he...

Facing a mid-life crisis, a journalist discovers the regular folk moonlighting as indie wrestlers, who help him transform his childhood dream into...

In northern Morocco lies the Spanish enclave of Melilla: Europe on African Land. On the mountain above live over a thousand hopeful African...

Five boys and five girls ages 13 to 19 live on a farm for ten weeks, to be filmed, and to see what might emerge for each of them personally.

Based on the eponymous novel by Ciro Alegría. An indigenous community living their day-to-day and their relationship with nature. They can be...

A picture of politicians under pressure, shot during the 1966 elections in Britain. The camera goes to meetings up and down the land, with an eye on...

Have you ever been to the bullfights in Tijuana? Larry Wessel's TAUROBOLIUM is not only cinema verite at it's best, Larry Wessel's TAUROBOLIUM is...

Saucedo explores the emotional journey of boxing champion Alex Saucedo who suffers a career ending brain injury, forcing him to redefine his...