Frederick Wiseman Movies

When renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner learns of the sudden death of a patient, she suspects murder. She mounts a private investigation,...

Rachel loves her life, her students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she grows close to his 4-year-old...

An aspiring author looking to get more out of life takes up a writing residency and finds herself in the sort of romantic entanglements that could...

When aimless Manon begins work at À mon seul désir, a strip club that offers high concept performances, she instantly bonds with her...

La Comédie-Française is the oldest continuous repertory company in the world, founded in late 17th-century Paris. This is the first...

A cinéma vérité exploration of the grueling schedules, auditions, lighting design, and backstage operations at the famous...

Employing methods of direct cinema–observation, limited stylization, and non-intervention–this stark look into the State Prison for the...

A documentary about how a dominant cultural and demographic institution both sustains their traditional activities and adapts to the digital...

The famous New York City landmark is given the spotlight, as well as the variety of ways in which people make use of it: running, boating, walking,...

A documentary exploring the landscape of Madison Square Garden. Filmed in 1997 and prevented from public screening by the property's operators.

One camera in one setting, one attic and eight young directors – the result is a unique Dadaistic collage of seven short sketches. The original...

Veteran award-winning documentarian Frederick Wiseman turns his lens on the world of boxing, specifically on a gym in Austin, Texas. Unobtrusively...

18 years after his last film, (The Troubles We've Seen), Marcel Ophuls emerges from retirement as one of our last masters, the most corrosive, the...

A large and beautiful property on the French Riviera. A place that seems out of time and sheltered from the rest of the world. Anna goes there with...

Explores a long-term relationship between a man and a woman: the man, Leo Tolstoy; the woman, his wife, Sophia. Married for 36 years, had thirteen...

Founded in 1930, Troisgros has held three Michelin stars for 55 years. The children of the fourth generation, Marie-Pierre and Michel's sons continue...

A film about ordinary experience in a beautiful old New England port city. A portrait of daily life with particular emphasis on the work and the...

What really happens inside the walls of an American high school? Famed documentarian Frederick Wiseman answers that question in this peek inside...

Frederick Wiseman focuses his lens on male and female models at work on television commercials, fashion shows, magazine covers, and advertising for a...

As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved small-town baseball field, a pair of New England rec-league teams face off for the last...