Movies Similar to Vanilla

The Unfinished Journey(1999)

A short about American life and history produced for the millennium New Year's Eve celebration.

Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero(2023)

A remarkably intimate portrait of an artist on tour navigating identity, family, expectations, and acceptance, all while reflecting on his place within the legacy of Black, queer performers.

5.8

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Iran(1971)

Claude Lelouch presents in his own vision of Iran. Between tradition and modernity, the movie reveals all the country's vision contrasts, under the very precise and aesthetic eye of Lelouch : veil and miniskirt, caviar and oil, ancestral Islamic art and the Shah of Iran.

6.0

Welcome to Sherwood! The Story of 'The Adventures of Robin Hood'(2003)

Film historians examines the making of the 1938 "The Adventures of Robin Hood."

6.5

The Many Lives of Jason Voorhees(2002)

A documentary charting the rise and fall (and inevitable undead rise) of fictional killer Jason Vorhees from the Friday the 13th series, which takes in the "video nasty" phenomenon in general.

8.0

Tickled(2016)

Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn’t stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction.

7.1

The Tales of the Bound & Restrained(2024)

SamHel follows several groups of bondage enthusiasts as they illustrate their hobby.

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79 Springs(1969)

This film memorializes the leader of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, on the occasion of his death. It narrates the story of a life which is also the story of a nation-recounting his important accomplishments in the struggle against colonialism and imperialism.

6.1

LBJ(1968)

This is a montage of different images from the JFK, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy triumphs and assassinations, all three events being observed by Lyndon Johnson as the dark figure who is plotting the anti-black rights movement.

5.7

Our Days, Absolutely, Have to Be Enlightened(2012)

A documentary experiment of great emotional power, about freedom and the strength of human affective bonds. We witness a concert given by the inmates of a prison in Orléans. Yet, they remain unseen, beyond the prison walls, all along the film, while the camera looks at those who listen to the music outside, in front of the prison. Silent emotions, the rapt faces of the listeners, humming along the prisoners, and their unrevealed personal histories, form a human gallery of potential stories, born out of the viewer's imagination.

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We All Play(2024)

"WE ALL PLAY" addresses the reality of the LGBTQIA+ community in sport. In a trip around the world, we will meet outstanding world elite athletes, who will talk, many of them for the first time, about their personal and professional experiences in first person.

8.5

American Juggalo(2011)

A look at the often mocked and misunderstood subculture of Juggalos, hardcore Insane Clown Posse fans, who meet once a year for 4 days at The Gathering of the Juggalos.

6.7

The Forgotten(1959)

Vittorio De Seta travels to Alessandria del Carretto, a small town in the province of Cosenza, to capture a unique celebration known as the “Feast of Silver.”

6.6

Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis(2005)

The film focuses on gay men who align themselves with hard-core right wing views, skinheads and Nazis. Rosa von Praunheim stated of the subjects featured in the documentary, “Some may be shocked that I do not take a stand in my film and do not portray gay neo-Nazis as monsters, but as people living their lives in dramatic contradiction.”

6.3

Glitterbug(1994)

A collage of Derek Jarman's super 8 footage spanning over 20 years.

6.3

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The New Boys(1974)

This short documentary takes us to St. John's Cathedral Boys' School, at Selkirk, Manitoba, one of the most demanding outdoor schools in North America. As the school can’t accommodate every student wishing to enroll, boys of 13 to 15 years old are put through an initiation tougher than they have ever faced. They paddle canoes through some 500 kilometers of wilderness in 2 weeks, portaging and camping all the way, thereby learning vital outdoor lore, cooperation and self-confidence.

0.0

The Really Big Family(1966)

The Really Big Family is a 1966 American documentary film directed by Alexander Grasshoff about the Dukes family of Seattle, who had 18 children. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

0.0

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness(2015)

A woman in Pakistan sentenced to death for falling in love becomes a rare survivor of the country's harsh judicial system.

7.1

Trembling Before G-d(2001)

A portrait of various gay Orthodox Jews who struggle to reconcile their faith and their sexual orientation.

5.5

Darkness To Brightness(2018)

The film is about the story of Ihsan Polat whose job is to lighten the darkness “with his own words.” He is the first end last Braille repairmen of Turkey. It is mentioned about that blind people can use their fingers just like their eyes and they read the books by touching them. It is expressed that braille is very important for their own world. IhsanPolat is lightening their world by means of this job.

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