Movies Similar to Shapes and Forms

Night and Fog(1959)

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Decade for Decision(1957)

Short news featurette produced by Pathe-RKO after the Russians launched the first orbiting satellite, Sputnik. It is a patriotic 'call to arms' from the threat posed by this and the need for Americans to spend more on education in general and a college education in particular. A visit to the University of Buffalo highlights its science programs and the need for more graduates from all technical disciplines if America is to rise to the challenge. It bemoans the fact the PhDs earn less than a mechanic and the need to re-order priorities.

Wir sind im Bilde(1953)

Argini(1954)

A tribute not so much to the river that runs through the Eternal City, but to that part of Rome that very often remains invisible to the eyes of tourists-the suburbs, with their streets and rituals.

The Path We Are Leaving(2025)

Forest and community guards face insecurity and clandestine logging in their community.

La quemada(2022)

12 years later, a failed school short film is resignified to share the multiple experiences that exist in the creation of a film.

Round About Hollywood(1931)

This short travelogue depicts snippets of locations in Hollywood, California, most of them as seen from the streets. Considerable time is taken showing the kinds of architecture of private homes. There are images of various important buildings, and a depiction of the Hollywood Bowl. Finally, there is a sequence revolving around the premiere of the film “Dirigible” (1931) at the famed Chinese Theatre.

Barcelona. Ritmo de un día(1940)

Silence(1998)

A portrait of a family living in a village in Masuria.

Gente de mesón(1969)

Represión: un arma de doble filo(2015)

Fragmentos para una historia del otro cine español(2010)

Documentary about the history of experimental cinema in Spain. FRAGMENTS is a historical survey of “the other” Spanish Cinema — films that brazenly explored their artistic, poetic and conceptual potential. Spanish experimental cinema can be glimpsed in a series of important yet isolated events that FRAGMENTS compiles through various firsthand accounts, film excerpts and documents. For the first time in Spain, a documentary brings together the most relevant of a cinema that is slowly losing its invisibility.

Good Farm(2012)

Collar de moscas(2002)

Buñuel's Prisoners(2000)

The filmmaker interviews still surviving residents of Las Hurdes, where Buñuel shot a controversial documentary almost 70 years ago, and compares the area as shown in that work to the way it seems now.

Los chicos de la foto(2014)

Jesús Franco, manera de vivir(2007)

Lucian Freud: Painted Life(2012)

Documentary about the painter Lucian Freud.

El jardín de las delicias(2009)

The True Story of the Ballerina in Red(2010)

Fictional Documentary. A dancer in one of the paintings by Edgar Degas one day stepped out of the canvas, conquers the world and disappears during the carnival in Rio; mix of the academic universe, avant-gard art and the underworld sex scene. The movie was shot in Paris, NY and RJ.