With Piraya Film A/S (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. O Acto de Matar (2012)
M/16 | 117 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.
Directors: Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous, Christine Cynn | Stars: Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, Syamsul Arifin, Ibrahim Sinik
Votes: 34,408 | Gross: $0.49M
2. O Olhar do Silêncio (2014)
M/16 | 103 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A family that survived the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer | Stars: Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan, Inong
Votes: 11,491 | Gross: $0.11M
3. Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019)
M/12 | 128 min | Documentary, Animation, History
Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld. As their investigation closes in, they discover a... See full summary »
Director: Mads Brügger | Stars: Mads Brügger, Clarinah Mfengu, Saphir Wenzi Mabanza, U Thant
Votes: 1,825 | Gross: $0.09M
4. TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard (2013)
85 min | Documentary
An intellectual freedoms documentary based around the interpersonal triumphs, and defeats of the three main characters against the largest industry in the known universe. The media industry.
Director: Simon Klose | Stars: Gottfrid Svartholm, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Peter Althin
Votes: 13,312
5. Forever Pure (2016)
85 min | Documentary
One season and one football team in crisis, as power, money and politics fuel a club spiralling out of control.
Director: Maya Zinshtein | Stars: Eli Cohen, Arcadi Gaydamak, Ariel Harush, Dzhabrail Kadiyev
Votes: 764
6. Raghu Rai: An Unframed Portrait (2017)
55 min | Documentary
Raghu Rai is the father of Indian photography. His story is told by young Avani Rai, who has to fight for her own voice in the shadow of her father. For over fifty years, Raghu Rai has ... See full summary »
Director: Avani Rai | Stars: Avani Rai, Raghu Rai
Votes: 67
7. Gulabi Gang (2012)
96 min | Documentary
In Bundelkhand, India, a revolution is in the making among the poorest of the poor, as the fiery women of the Gulabi Gang empower themselves and take up the fight against gender violence, caste oppression and widespread corruption.
Director: Nishtha Jain | Stars: Sampat Pal Devi, Ram Dulari, Devrati, Babu
Votes: 196
8. Russian Lessons (2010)
110 min | Documentary
The film starts as a journey by the two directors-protagonists. Olga and Andrei, on the two sides of the frontline during the Russian-Georgian was in August 2008. A film on such a hot ... See full summary »
Directors: Olga Konskaya, Andrey Nekrasov | Stars: Vissarion Apliaa, Valery Gergiev, Olga Konskaya, Marat Kulakhmetov
Votes: 176
9. The Magnitsky Act. Behind the Scenes (2016)
152 min | Documentary
What started as a docu-drama about a Russian police plot to steal a billion dollars from a US financier and to murder his faithful tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, became an investigation of a ... See full summary »
Director: Andrey Nekrasov | Stars: Viktoria Apanasenko, Anna Avramenko, Katerina Bashkina-Zlenko, Marieluise Beck
Votes: 109
10. Angels Are Made of Light (2018)
117 min | Documentary
A dozen years after his Oscar-nominated Iraq in Fragments, American documentarian James Longley delivers a sweeping, profoundly compassionate group portrait of Afghan students and teachers still weathering national turbulence.
Director: James Longley | Stars: Fazula, Hasiba, Yaldash Mir-Habibullah, Rostam Mir-Mohammed-Ullah
Votes: 70 | Gross: $0.01M
11. Häätanssi (2012)
85 min | Documentary, Drama
A film about a Moroccan woman Hind who doesn't officially exist, because she was raped as a teenager, but who now is one particle of the greater political change sweeping across the Arab region.
Director: Mohamed El Aboudi | Stars: Hanan Ryahi, Bilal, Bouchra, Leila
Votes: 23
12. Farewell Comrades! (2011– )
Documentary, Drama, History
For the first time ever, this story, starting in 1975 to 1991, is told chronologically and from across and within the borders of all countries involved by the people who were there, who lived through it, who made it happen.
Star: Tatiana Nekrasov
Votes: 101
13. The Great European Cigarette Mystery (2017)
92 min | Documentary
How John Dalli the EU commissioner of health was accused of being in the pocket of tobacco companies.
Director: Jeppe Rønde | Stars: Mikael Bertelsen, Michael Brady, Mads Brügger, John Dalli
Votes: 124
14. Mogadishu Soldier (2016)
84 min | Documentary, War
A camera in the hands of African Union soldiers in Mogadishu, Somalia, captures the war on the jihadist militants in Al-Shabaab.
Director: Torstein Grude
Votes: 31
15. Yodok Stories (2008)
83 min | Documentary, Music
Today, more than 200.000 men, women and children are locked up in North Korea's concentration camps. Systematic torture, starvation and murder is what faces the inmates. Few survive many ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Fidyk | Star: Jung Sung San
Votes: 201
16. Griseindustriens hemmeligheter (2019 TV Movie)
56 min | Documentary
In five years, Norun Haugen went undercover in the Norwegian pig industry with a hidden camera. What kind of life did the pig have before ending up on your dinner plate? What Norun found during her undercover is very shocking.
Director: Ola Waagen | Stars: Norun Haugen, Frank Nervik, Karen Johanne Baalsrud
Votes: 10
17. Pushwagner (2011)
73 min | Documentary
A personal portrait of a small man with a great personality. The directors followed the artist Pushwagner for three years. He is an artist who is in danger of losing everything.
Directors: Even Benestad, August Baugstø Hanssen | Star: Hariton Pushwagner
Votes: 224
18. Mit Afghanistan: Livet i den forbudte zone (2012)
87 min | Documentary, History, War
Nagieb Khaja is a Danish journalist of Afghan origin and he believes that the West makes decisions on Afghanistan based on an uninformed view of the country and its people. Nagieb a man ... See full summary »
Director: Nagieb Khaja
Votes: 31
19. Love City, Jalalabad (2013)
99 min | Documentary, Drama, Romance
A wild and funny documentary showing how the progressive youth of Afghanistan are rejecting the use of armed force and see film production as an alternative means of bringing peace and social change to their war-torn and occupied country.
Directors: George Gittoes, Torstein Grude | Stars: Ahmad Zia Abir, Noor Agha Ahmadi, Fawad Ahmadzai, Jawad Ahmadzai
Votes: 20
20. On a Tightrope (2007)
74 min | Documentary
A documentary on the Uighur people, the Muslim minority population that live in northwestern China, under strict control by the Chinese government.
Director: Petr Lom
Votes: 62
21. Back to the Square (2012)
83 min | Documentary
A year after the euphoria on Tahrir Square, the demonstrators' goals have not even come close to being reached. The country is ruled with an iron fist and there is still no democracy. The '... See full summary »
Director: Petr Lom
Votes: 41
22. Snow Monkey (2015)
148 min | Documentary
Snow Monkey is an epic portrait of daily life in Jalalabad, where art activist Gittoes recruited gangs of war-damaged children to shoot local, Pashto-style films: vibrant, colorful and ... See full summary »
Director: George Gittoes
Votes: 40
23. Bialoruski walc (2007)
73 min | Documentary
In Belarus, the totalitarian regime cracks down on all opposition. Anyone criticizing the dictator risks imprisonment and torture. Our film, Belarusian Waltz is on the incredible personal ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Fidyk
Votes: 29
24. Discoveries of a Marionette (2009)
73 min | Documentary, Adventure, Family
There has always been a distance between Bjarte and his grandfather, the great patriarch Alf Morner. This is about to change when Alf gives his grandson the strangest gift: a chest full of ... See full summary »
Director: Bjarte Mørner Tveit | Stars: Dagmar Brunner, Alf Mørner, Inger Mørner, Ole Johan Mørner
Votes: 5
25. Draumen om Fusa (2006)
50 min | Documentary
Norway has had one royal family for over 100 years, but now there is a man in the little community Fusa on the West Coast who challenges the centralized government and Oslo-based royalty. ... See full summary »
Director: Berit Rødstøl
26. Al magt til folket? (2017)
90 min | Documentary
In many Western democracies, trust between the people and the politicians are at a low point while populist movements are on the rise. In Italy, Movimento vows to send all politicians home ... See full summary »
Director: Lise Birk Pedersen | Stars: Alberto Ariola, Lorenzo Battista, Silvio Berlusconi, Pier Luigi Bersani
Votes: 36
27. Pels (2014)
57 min | Documentary, News
Exposing the true face of the fur industry
Director: Ola Waagen | Stars: Odd Harald Eidsmo, Frank Nervik, Per Arne Tøllefsen
Votes: 55
28. Junkies (1998)
90 min | Documentary
Get to know some of the people furthest down on the human rank. They have disconnected from society, which often had them written off as kids. They are gladly criminals, so they get their next fix.
Director: Trond Kvist
Votes: 21
29. Tinnsoldatene (2004)
48 min | Documentary
A group of young UN soldiers in Lebanon enters service with pro-Israeli views and a naive outlook on war. They go through a radical change of heart as they witness and film the Qana ... See full summary »
Directors: Torstein Grude, Stian Indrevoll
Votes: 15
30. Instant Happiness (2001 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
Instant Happiness is a documentary probing the lives of five youths in the house- and techno scene in Norway. It's about their search for identity and social position, but also about drugs ... See full summary »
Director: Torstein Grude | Star: Erik Borgen
Votes: 48
31. Street Level (2000)
25 min | Documentary, Short
The heavily trafficked Bergen street Nygårdsgaten gets taken over by the international art project Streetlevel. The artists behind the project describe it as an art project set within the ... See full summary »
Director: Anneli Hansen
32. Slaver av SMS (2002)
25 min | Documentary, Short
How new technology creates new addictions and other unwanted consequences.
Director: Lars Leegaard Marøy
33. Digitale Dissidenten (2015)
90 min | Documentary
Whistle-blowers David Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, Thomas Drake, William Binney, Julian Assange and Annie Machon are interviewed about illegal surveillance by NSA, Nixon, MI5, MI6 and BND and the price whistle-blowers pay.
Director: Cyril Tuschi
Votes: 22
34. Vitenskapelig poesi (2006)
11 min | Short
SCIENTIFIC POETRY is a series of short, poetic documentary films in the crossroad between life/death and God/science, made in collaboration with performance artist Kurt Johannessen. FIRST ... See full summary »
Director: Bjarte Mørner Tveit | Star: Kurt Johannessen
35. Velkommen hjem (2002)
90 min | Documentary
A warm, charming and entertaining documentary about several first or second generation immigrants living in Oslo and Bergen. You will among others meet an immigrant on skis, an African ... See full summary »
Director: Trond Kvist
Votes: 19
36. Hypokondere (2007)
48 min | Documentary
8:45 am. Hypochondriacs Clinic, Bergen, Norway. A young man is waiting for his consultation to start. In the next room, Dr. Wilhelmsen reads briefly through his journal, invites the patient... See full summary »
Director: Lars Leegaard Marøy
37. Svindleren (2005)
52 min | Documentary
Richard Ringheim is a young celebrity criminal whose initially funny story turns ugly. From white-collar crime and zany stunts, he slides into a darker reality, where he plays a high-stake ... See full summary »
Director: Trond Kvist
Votes: 53
38. Himmelen inni oss (2004)
41 min | Documentary, Short
What is insanity? What is normality? Nineteen-year-old Ina documents life with her apparently psychotic mother, who wants to marry herself. The filming sparks a process of change, and ... See full summary »
Directors: Torstein Grude, Ina Roll Spinnangr
Votes: 7
39. Rett til himmels (2000)
25 min | Documentary, Short
In this documentary we meet Linn and Mikael, two young members of the charismatic Christian congregation "Living Words" in Bergen, Norway. Linn and Mikael are getting married, and since ... See full summary »
Director: Anneli Hansen