Ein Fernsehteam macht sich auf, um im brasilianischen Urwald eine Dokumentation über die letzten Kannibalen zu drehen. Als nach 2 Monaten jegliche Lebenszeichen von ihnen ausbleiben, wird ein zweites Team in den Wald geschickt, um die Vermissten zu finden. Dies geschieht auch - allerdings ist alles, was man von den jungen Leuten noch findet, ihre von Maden und Käfern bewohnten Skelette. Immerhin ihr Filmmaterial findet den Weg zurück in die Heimat und wird zwecks einer TV-Ausstrahlung ausgewertet. Nun kommt die ganze schreckliche Wahrheit ans Licht: Um gute Bilder zu bekommen, haben die skrupellosen Reporter die Naturvölker gequält, mißbraucht und geschändet. Klar, dass diese sich dafür rächen wollten..

1985. Als die Filmzensorin Enid Baines (Niamh Algar) ein unheimliches Horrorvideo entdeckt, das direkt auf das mysteriöse Verschwinden ihrer Schwester eingeht, beschließt sie, das Rätsel hinter dem Film und seinem rätselhaften Regisseur zu lösen - eine Suche, die die Grenzen zwischen Fiktion und Realität auf erschreckende Weise verwischen wird...

Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions whether certain studios get preferential treatment and exposes the discrepancies in how the MPAA views sex and violence.

In den späten Achtzigern, in Ceausescus Rumänien, brachten ein Schwarzmarkt-VHS-Raubkopierer und eine mutige Übersetzerin den Zauber westlicher Filme zum rumänischen Volk und säten die Saat einer Revolution.

Two alley cats, Babbitt and Catsello, decide to make a meal out of Orson as he sleeps in his nest atop a telephone pole. The gullible (and loud) Catsello is repeatedly gulled into trying to "get the bird," earning a variety of thrashings from the casually murderous little canary. Catsello finally resorts to an air strike (with a pair of wooden boards for wings), but it's wartime, and Orson has the cat blasted out of the sky by anti-aircraft guns.

Miloš Forman ist bekannt für Filme wie „Hair“, „Einer flog über das Kuckucksnest“, „Amadeus“ oder „Larry Flynt“. Auf Basis seiner Autobiografie dokumentiert die Regisseurin Helena Třeštíková Miloš Formans Jugend in der besetzten Tschechoslowakei, seine filmischen Anfänge, seine Immigration in die USA und sein internationaler Erfolg.

A documentary about the making of the controversial Life of Brian and the surrounding accusations of blasphemy.

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth of a domestic star system, populated by very peculiar artists among whom stood out several beautiful, magnetic, special actresses; a dark story of war, drugs, sex, censorship and tragedy.

Forty years later, Guillermo Montesinos, the actor who played José María el Cepa in The Cuenca Crime (1980), directed by Pilar Miró, returns to the various locations where the shooting of the mythical film, narrating the infamous Grimaldos case (1910), took place.

During a film shoot in Tehran the director is trying to film a romantic scene but the government censor keeps interrupting and getting involved.

Hell on Earth is a documentary about Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils. Film critic Mark Kermode chats to Russell as well as two of the film’s stars, Georgina Hale and Murray Melvin. Also included are scenes that were cut from the released film for being too controversial.

Spain, 1970s. A Clockwork Orange, a film considered by critics and audiences as one of the best works in the history of cinema, directed by Stanley Kubrick and released in 1971, was banned by the strict Franco government. However, the film was finally premiered, without going through censorship, during the 20th edition of the Seminci, the Valladolid Film Festival, on April 24, 1975. How was this possible?

Born in Campo de Criptana, a small village in the Spanish region of La Mancha, Sara Montiel (1928-2013) conquered Mexico, Hollywood, and the hearts of people. The recognition of an unparalleled professional career, an intimate dialogue with a tireless worker who took the stage at the age of twelve and never got off. A movie star who seduced millions of viewers around the world, a singer who reinvented a musical genre, a woman who broke the mold…

In the late sixties, Spanish cinema began to produce a huge amount of horror genre films: international markets were opened, the production was continuous, a small star-system was created, as well as a solid group of specialized directors. Although foreign trends were imitated, Spanish horror offered a particular approach to sex, blood and violence. It was an extremely unusual artistic movement in Franco's Spain.

Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was released, director Ofelio Linares Montt shot Zombies in the Sugar Cane Field, which turned out to be both a horror film and a political statement. It was a success in the US, but could not be shown in Argentina due to Juan Carlos Onganía's dictatorship, and was eventually lost. Writer and researcher Luciano Saracino embarks on the search for the origins of this cursed work.

Argentina, 1968. In the midst of the Cold War, the dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía (1966-70) organizes the 9th Mar del Plata Film Festival in order to show the world its friendly face, while exercising censorship and repressing dissidence.

The highly anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP & VIDEOTAPE documentary, director Jake West and producer Marc Morris continue uncovering the shocking story of home entertainment post the 1984 Video Recordings Act. A time when Britain plunged into a new Dark Age of the most restrictive censorship, where the horror movie became the bloody eviscerated victim of continuing dread created by self-aggrandizing moral guardians. With passionate and entertaining interviews from the people who lived through it and more jaw dropping archive footage, get ready to reflect and rejoice the passing of a landmark era.

For many years, Buenos Aires, Argentina, was one of the best places in the world for a film buff; but from the mid-sixties onwards, successive authoritarian governments shaped the will of the spectators, dictating what could be seen and what could not, so that the true cinema lovers, in their desire to watch films, had no choice but to embark on the most extraordinary and strange adventures.

Resistance fighter under the occupation, committed to the FLN during the Algerian war, member of the Medvedkine group after May 1968 and defender of Breton autonomy, René Vautier was a committed filmmaker, author of an anti-colonialist work in which he denounces the repression, torture and racism. In 1983, René Vautier discovered, by the light of a flashlight, his films cut up and scattered at Fort du Conquet. Police also came to check the damage.

The amazing story of Cifesa, a mythical film production company founded in Valencia by the Casanova family that managed to dominate the box office during the turbulent times of the Second Spanish Republic, the carnage of the Civil War and the hardships of the long post-war period and Franco's dictatorship — and survive until the sixties, when Spain was timidly beginning to change.