Top 55 Movies about Photographers
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1.
Blow-Up
(1966)
A
mod London photographer seems to find something very suspicious
in the shots he has taken of a mysterious beauty in a desolate
park. (111 mins.)
Director:
Michelangelo
Antonioni
2.
Salvador
(1986)
An
American photojournalist gets caught in a political struggle
at El Salvador in 1980. (122 mins.)
Director:
Oliver Stone
3.
Rear
Window (1954)
A
wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from
his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has
committed murder. (112 mins.)
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
4.
City
of God (2002)
Two
boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro
take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other
a drug dealer. (130 mins.)
Director:
Fernando Meirelles,
Kátia Lund
5.
1,000
Times Good Night (2013)
Rebecca
is one of the world's top war photographers. She must weather
a major emotional storm when her... (117 mins.)
Director:
Erik Poppe
6.
Everlasting
Moments (2008)
In
a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young
working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The
decision to keep it alters her whole life. (131 mins.)
Director:
Jan Troell
7.
The
Killing Fields (1984)
A
photographer is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's
bloody "Year Zero" cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives
of two million "undesirable" civilians. (141 mins.)
Director:
Roland Joffé
8.
L'important
c'est d'aimer (1975)
Servais
Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her
money starring in cheap soft-core movies... (109 mins.)
Director:
Andrzej Zulawski
9.
The
Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
A
young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political
turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno
with the help of a diminutive photographer. (115 mins.)
Director:
Peter Weir
10.
Under
Fire (1983)
Three
journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political
intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somozoa regime
in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.
(128 mins.)
Director:
Roger Spottiswoode
11.
Shutter
(2004)
A
young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious
shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They
soon learn that you can not escape your past. (97 mins.)
Director:
Banjong Pisanthanakun,
Parkpoom Wongpoom
12.
Proof
(1991)
The
life of a blind photographer who is looked after by a housekeeper
is disrupted by the arrival of an agreeable restaurant worker.
(86 mins.)
Director:
Jocelyn Moorhouse
13.
Dreams
(1955)
In
Stockholm, the fashion photographer Susanne Frank misses her
married lover Henrik Lobelius that lives in Gothenburg with
his wife and children... (87 mins.)
Director:
Ingmar Bergman
14.
The
Bang Bang Club (2010)
A
drama based on the true-life experiences of four combat photographers
capturing the final days of apartheid in South Africa. (106
mins.)
Director:
Steven Silver
15.
Distant
(2002)
After
his wife leaves him, a photographer has an existential crisis
and tries to cope with his cousin's visit. (110 mins.)
Director:
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
16.
Pretty
Baby (1978)
A
teenage girl lives as a prostitute in the early decades of
America, only to know her body is for bounty. (110 mins.)
Director:
Louis Malle
17.
One
Hour Photo (2002)
An
employee of a one-hour photo lab becomes obsessed with a young
suburban family. (96 mins.)
Director:
Mark Romanek
18.
Triage
(2009)
The
wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came
home from a recent assignment without his colleague. (99
mins.)
Director:
Danis Tanovic
19.
The
Salt of the Earth (2014 Documentary)
For
the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has
been travelling through the continents... (110 mins.)
Director:
Juliano Ribeiro
Salgado, Wim
Wenders
20.
The
Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Photographer
Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca
Johnson, for four days in the 1960s. (135 mins.)
Director:
Clint Eastwood
21.
Zenne
Dancer (2012)
A
feature film about an unusual trio: Daniel, a German photo-journalist
in Istanbul without much knowledge about Turkish values...
(99 mins.)
Director:
M. Caner Alper,
Mehmet Binay
22.
For
Lovers Only (2011)
An
American photographer runs into an old flame while on assignment
in Paris. (87 mins.)
Director:
Michael Polish
23.
Time
to Leave (2005)
Romain
is a very successful fashion photographer who's diagnosed
with terminal cancer. He copes by being cruel and nasty to
those he loves, until a visit with his grandmother changes
his outlook. But, his boyfriend's moved out, now what? (81
mins.)
Director:
François Ozon
24.
Louder
Than Bombs (2015)
The
fractious family of a father and his two sons confront their
different feelings and memories of their deceased wife and
mother, a famed war photographer. (109 mins.)
Director:
Joachim Trier
25.
The
Public Eye (1992)
Story
of a 1940s photographer who specializes in crime and in not
getting involved... until this time. (99 mins.)
Director:
Howard Franklin
26.
Flags
of Our Fathers (2006)
The
life stories of the six men who raised the flag at The Battle
of Iwo Jima, a turning point in WWII. (135 mins.)
Director:
Clint Eastwood
27.
Palermo
Shooting (2008)
After
the wild life-style of a famous young German photographer
almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take
a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman
help him calm himself down? (124 mins.)
Director:
Wim Wenders
28.
Ship
of Theseus (2012)
Explores
questions of identity, justice, beauty, meaning and death
through an experimental photographer, an ailing monk and a
young stockbroker. (140 mins.)
Director:
Anand Gandhi
29.
Pecker
(1998)
A
Baltimore sandwich shop employee becomes an overnight sensation
when photographs he's taken of his... (87 mins.)
Director:
John Waters
30.
Guinevere
(1999)
A
young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved
with a much older photographer. (104 mins.)
Director:
Audrey Wells
31.
Delirious
(2006)
An
offbeat drama focused on a homeless youth, a pop music siren
and a member of the paparazzi. (107 mins.)
Director:
Tom DiCillo
32.
Finding
Vivian Maier (2013 Documentary)
A
documentary on the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously
unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous
reputation as one of the most accomplished street photographers.
(83 mins.)
Director:
John Maloof,
Charlie Siskel
33.
My
Straight Son (2012)
The
story of Diego, a young and successful photographer that lives
in the glamorous world of fashion... (114 mins.)
Director:
Miguel Ferrari
35.
Lies
I Told My Little Sister (2014)
After
the death of her oldest sister, a 30 year old globe-trotting
nature photographer is guilted onto a family trip to Cape
Cod... (98 mins.)
Director:
William J. Stribling
36.
Calendar
(1993)
A
photographer and his wife take photographs of Armenian churches
for use in a calendar. Their driver... (74 mins.)
Director:
Atom Egoyan
37.
Eadweard
(2015)
A
psychological drama centered around world-famous turn-of-the-century
photographer, Eadweard Muybridge who photographed nude and
deformed subjects... (104 mins.)
Director:
Kyle Rideout
38.
The
Snake (2006)
Fashion
photographer Vincent Mandel, in the midst of a difficult divorce,
is suddenly being accused of rape and extorted. What does
his former classmate Joseph Plender want from him? (119
mins.)
Director:
Eric Barbier
39.
I'd
Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips (2011)
The
photographer Cauby moves and settles down in a small town
in the countryside of Pará. When he meets the model Lavínia...
(100 mins.)
Director:
Beto Brant,
Renato Ciasca
40.
Woman
in Chains (1968)
Stanislas
Hassler blazes the development of modern art in his gallery,
packed with works of surprising shapes... (106 mins.)
Director:
Henri-Georges
Clouzot
41.
Photographing
Fairies (1997)
Photographer
Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of
his beautiful bride. He goes off to war... (106 mins.)
Director:
Nick Willing
42.
Circle
of Deceit (1981)
Laschen,
a German journalist, travels to the city of Beirut during
the fights between Christians and... (108 mins.)
Director:
Volker Schlöndorff
43.
Life
(2015)
A
photographer for Life Magazine is assigned to shoot pictures
of James Dean. (111 mins.)
Director:
Anton Corbijn
45.
Heavenly
Forest (2006)
Heavenly
Forest is About a Photographer name Makoto who travels to
New York during Christmas to look for his best friend... (116
mins.)
Director:
Takehiko Shinjo
46.
Boat
People (1982)
A
Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the Liberation
and learns harsh truths about its regime and its "New Economic
Zones". (109 mins.)
Director:
Ann Hui
48.
McCullin
(2012 Documentary)
To
many, Don McCullin is the greatest living war photographer,
often cited as an inspiration for today's photojournalists...
(91 mins.)
Director:
David Morris,
Jacqui Morris
49.
Puzzle
of a Downfall Child (1970)
Lou
Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she
tries to make success in the modeling world of New York...
(105 mins.)
Director:
Jerry Schatzberg
51.
Girlfriends
(1978)
A
photographer and her girlfriend are roommates. She is stuck
with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When
her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt
and has to learn how to deal with living alone. (86
mins.)
Director:
Claudia Weill
52.
Fotograf
(2015)
The
story is freely inspired by the life and work of Jan
Saudek, who is probably the most well-known...
Director:
Irena Pavlásková
53.
Don't
Look Back (2009)
A
psychodrama about a photographer whose pictures tell a different
story to that of her perception. (111 mins.)
Director:
Marina de Van
