Docs & Biopics

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Here we have a collection of movies about movies, films about filmmakers, and dramatisations about drama kings and queens. So sit back, relax, and enjoy some non-fiction to battle the brain rot.

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  • Pennywise: The Story of IT

    Movie

    2021 • United States • Directed by John Campopiano and Christopher Griffiths

    This in-depth look at the 1990 mini-series based on Stephen King's novel features interviews with many of the cult classic's key players, including director Tommy Lee Wallace and legend Tim Curry, who portrayed the noto...

  • Hollywood Dreams and Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story

    Movie

    2023 • United Kingdom • Directed by Christopher Griffiths and Gary Smart

    Robert Englund has become one of the most revolutionary horror icons of our generation. This intimate portrait captures the man behind the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET franchise and features interviews with Englund, Lin Shaye, E...

  • We Kill For Love

    Movie

    2023 • United States • Directed by Anthony Penta

    We Kill for Love goes in search of the forgotten world of the direct-to-video erotic thriller, an American film genre that once dominated late night cable television and the shelves of neighborhood video stores. Balancing film art with scholarship...

  • Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato On The Road Of Excess

    Movie

    2021 • Italy • Directed by Manlio Gomarasca and Massimiliano Zanin

    Documentarians Manlio Gomarasca and Massimiliano Zanin reveal the story of Joe D'Amato's remarkable life and career featuring an in-depth interview with the late filmmaker, new and archival insights by Michele Soavi, Luigi Montef...

  • Straight To VHS

    Movie

    2021 • Uruguay • Directed by Emilio Silva Torres

    Documentarian Emilio Silva Torres searches for the people behind the making of ACT OF VIOLENCE IN A YOUNG JOURNALIST, Uruguay's first direct-to-video thriller, a 1980s curio with a cult following. Torres tries to find the mysterious director Manue...

  • Fulci For Fake

    Movie

    2019 • Italy • Directed by Simone Scafidi

    He was known as The Maestro of Splatter and The Godfather of Gore. But who was the real Lucio Fulci? When an actor agrees to portray the infamous director, he sets out to research the triumphs, tragedies and truths behind Fulci's life, work and legacy th...

  • History Of The Erotic Cinema

    Movie

    1982 • United Kingdom • Directed by Dick Randall

    Infamous producer Dick Randall (PIECES, THE WILD WILD WORLD OF JAYNE MANSFIELD) presents this revealing look at sex on screen. From D.W. Griffith's INTOLERANCE to modern erotica, discover how cinema shed its inhibitions via clips from film archive...

  • Living with Chucky

    Movie

    2023 • United States • Directed by Kyra Elise Gardner

    Living with Chucky takes an in-depth look at the groundbreaking horror franchise. Featuring interviews with cast and crew, including genre favorites Lin Shaye, Alex Vincent, Jennifer Tilly and creator Don Mancini, the film recounts the dedica...

  • Fantasticozzi

    Movie

    2016 • Italy • Directed by Felipe M. Guerra

    He's been called "Italian Genre Cinema's Most Unfairly Neglected Director" and "The Italian Ed Wood." Now Luigi Cozzi tells his own story, from his sci-fi obsessed childhood and collaborations with Dario Argento to his rise as writer/director of such s...

  • 1982: The Greatest Geek Year Ever​​!

    Movie

    2022 • United States • Directed by Roger Lay Jr.

    ​An inside look back at the greatest geek year in cinema ever, 1982, with stars, directors, writers, producers, critics and pop culture historians sharing their insights about such classic films as "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial," "Blade Runner," "St...

  • Everything Is Terrible! - The Great Satan

    Movie

    2018 • United States • Directed by Dimitri Simakis and Lehr Beidelschies

    Over the last 10 years, EIT! has reinterpreted our shared memory into 3,000+ daily web videos, collected 15,000 Jerry Maguire VHS tapes, and forever altered the collective consciousness. Now, with their longtime collaborato...

  • Fulci Talks

    Movie

    2021 • Italy • Directed by Antonietta De Lillo

    In this extensive interview, legendary Italian director Lucio Fulci offers insight into his prolific career. The maestro relates anecdotes about his early life, his entrance into the world of cinema, the various film genres in which he worked, his c...

  • At The Drive-in

    Movie

    2017 • United States • Directed by Alexander Monelli

    Unable to purchase a $50,000 digital projector, a group of quirky film fanatics in rural Pennsylvania fight to keep a dying drive-in theater alive by screening only vintage 35mm film prints and working entirely for free. At The Drive-in is the...

  • Shake the Dust

    Movie

    2015 • United States • Directed by Adam Sjoberg

    Despite its genesis in the Bronx, Hip-Hop has become a universal language spoken across all cultures. Shake The Dust celebrates this global unity by chronicling three different break dance crews in the slums of Uganda, Yemen and Cambodia where Hip-...

  • The Strange World of José Mojica Marins

    Movie

    2001 • Brazil • Directed by André Barcinski

    The definitive documentary on the life and work of José Mojica Marins by Andre Barcinski and Ivan Finotti.

  • Mike Hodges: A Film-Maker’s Life

    Movie

    2022 • United Kingdom • Directed by David Cairns

    Get up close and very personal with this documentary about the Cult British director behind Get Carter, Flash Gordon and more, Mike Hodges: A Film-makers Life. This feature-length in-depth sit down with a leading figure in UK cinema sees Hodges ta...