Movies Similar to 8mm of Distance

Zombies und Dromomanen - Die blinden Vögel unterwegs(1985)

Two men who have been friends for quite some time and who live in different cities maintain a correspondence with Super 8 film reels that they occasionally send to each other. One of these film reels shows a woman who reminds the addressee of a former girlfriend. Immediately and without paying attention to his obligations to the company, he drives the company car to the city of his childhood friend, 780 km away. There he finds out that she has been the secret lover of his Super 8 friend for years. After about three or four weeks, which they spend on the coast of another country without any significant difficulties, the lover of the childhood friend rows his boat alone across the Atlantic after an obviously frame-up rescue operation.

Single8(2023)

Summer 1978. High schooler Kurita is inspired by Star Wars, and films a spaceship scene on a 8mm camera together with his friend Ozawa. When the class is discussing a project for their school festival, Kurita's suggestion to make an SF movie ends up winning. Together with their movie fan classmate Sasaki, the boys start to plan a movie and manage to convince Yamashita, the prettiest girl in class, to star as the heroine. Over the summer vacation, the four shoot their movie, "Time Reverse", where an alien spaceship arrives on Earth to turn back time in order to save mankind from itself.

Ich fühle, daß ich falle(1977)

Directorial debut by Klaus Hofmann and Bernd Siebert, shot on 8mm.

Camera Buff(1979)

Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.

Traces of Grief(2024)

Shell-shocked Barbara must face up to the loss of a dear companion after a tragic accident. Her best friend Klara and husband Torsten devise a plan to thaw Barbara's heart, after she reminisces about the incident, the funeral, and happier times. Will she agree to the suggestions of her nearest and dearest? Can grief turn into hope?

Torremolinos 73(2003)

Set in 1973 Spain, a struggling encyclopedia salesman and his wife take advantage of an offer to make adult films. The act turns him into an aspring legit filmmaker and her into an international sex symbol.

Michelle(2022)

Ritratto di Rosa, all'italiana(2023)

"Ritratto di Rosa, all'italiana" stands as the second act of the trilogy begun in 2019 with "Portrait de Rosa, à la française." The poetry of the first chapter is replaced by a melody that takes the viewer back among the waves of a journey, among rocks and shells. A song full of love and hope from the past, setting the end of youth and the beginning of maturity.

West Beirut(1998)

In 1975, the long slog of civil war has recently begun in Beirut. Two friends, Tarek and Omar, suffer during the Lebanese civil war. Conflicts arise when they decide to cross from West to East, crossing the Muslim-Christian line that divides Beirut.

Sometimes I Hear the Light Leak in Through the Corners of My Room

Heartbroken, Madeline goes out on the town ruminating on the cyclical nature of love. She passes from one thrill to another looking for answers. Relationships come and go but memories are forever.

Lurch(2024)

Filipino-born Ella works as a nanny in a prosperous Moscow family. Day by day, she carries out the same routine actions: washing, cooking, cleaning, babysitting. But once she accidentally hurts her arm, her smooth repetitive life gradually gives a lurch…

Stalemate(2022)

Upon a stay in his grandparent's countryside house, young writer Matt begins to encounter strange happenings as he attempts to write his first novel.

Crack of Dawn(2023)

The farmhouse of a rural family is declared unfit for habitation. While part of the family fights to save the space their ancestors built, the younger ones imagine where they could go.

Born In Summer(1998)

A filmmaker plays with diary-docu and fiction as his camera joins his ventures into a phone dating club. Bored to death, hormones running, and desperately wanting to talk to someone his own age (preferably a girl), he walks into a local phone dating club. Can he hook up with someone? Borrowing the form of a diary-movie, the director unfurls an unpredictable and imaginative look into his own persona. 8mm experimental film by Murakami Kenji, the film that made his name.

The Cinephile(2023)

A lonely man, who spends all his time watching films, finds a way to get his hands on a copy of the lost film Cleopatra (1917), but will he be able to pay the price?

Boarding(2025)

Apip, a teenage cinephile, is forced to go to school in an Islamic boarding school by his mother for being "too free." In his final year, he discovers a golden opportunity: a national short film competition. But rigid school rules stand in his way, forcing Apip to choose between his passion and institutional demands.

The Surface(2015)

Evan, an orphaned 22-year-old who grew up in the foster care system, buys a vintage 8mm camera in a yard sale from an elderly man, ends up with reels of the man's old home movies, and begins to live vicariously through these home movies.

Familiar Phantoms(2023)

Familiar Phantoms is an experimental documentary short film about memory, history and trauma.

I Can't Wait Until It's Dark!(1975)

Three cinephile university students have a go at making their own Super-8 film.

Nicky's Film(1971)

A man is threatened by mobsters to pay up a loan or be killed.