Movies about photographers

Movies about photographers
List of the best movies about photographers selected by visitors to our site: Triage, A Thousand Times Good Night, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, Palermo Shooting, Harrison's Flowers, Life, C'est la vie!, Nightcrawler, The Shawshank Redemption, Minamata.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Country
Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, detective, military
CountryRepublic of Ireland, Spain, Belgium, France, Austria, Cayman Islands
Duration01:39
CharactersPhotographers
PlotWar
PlaceIreland, Iraq, Party
StylePsychological problems, Action, Twisted plot, Depressive, Serious

The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, military
CountryNorway, Republic of Ireland, Sweden
Duration01:51
CharactersPhotographers

On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul, Rebecca – one of the world’s top war photojournalists - gets badly hurt. Back home, another bomb drops as her husband and daughters give her an ultimatum: her work or her family.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:02
CharactersWerewolf, Giants, Photographers, Friends, Raccoons
PlotTravel
PlaceNew York
StyleAtmospheric, Serious

In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respectable though her life is, she cannot help but feel uncomfortable in her privileged world. One night, a new neighbor catches Diane's eye, and the enigmatic man inspires her to set forth on the path to discovering her own artistry.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama
CountryGermany, France, Italy
Duration01:43
CharactersHeroes, Photographers
PlotRivalry
PlaceItaly, Germany
StyleSoulful, Atmospheric, Fancy, Serious

After the wild lifestyle 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 calm him down?

Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama, drama, military
CountryFrance
Duration02:01
CharactersPhotographers
PlotWar, Revenge, Missing people
StyleHeavy, Tense, Gloomy, Depressive, Serious

Harrison Lloyd is a Pulitzer-winning photojournalist. His wife and family are making it hard for him to keep his mind on his work when he's in a war zone, and he wants to change jobs to something less stressful. But he's got one last assignment, in war-torn Yugoslavia, in 1991, at the height of the fighting. Word comes back that he apparently died in a building collapse, but his wife Sarah (also a journalist for Newsweek) refuses to believe that he's dead and goes looking for him. She's helped immensely by the photo-journalists Eric Kyle and Marc Stevenson that she runs into over there; together, they're determined to make it through the chaotic landscape to Vukovar, which is not only the nexus of the war but where she believes Harrison is located. Meanwhile, Harrison's son Cesar is looking after his father's prized greenhouse, keeping hope, and flowers, alive.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genredrama, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Australia, USA
Duration02:11
CharactersPhotographers, Friends, Celebrities, Actors
PlotOn real events, Friendship
PlaceUSA
StylePsychological problems, Fascinating, Serious

In 1955, young photographer Dennis Stock develops a close bond with actor James Dean while shooting pictures of the rising Hollywood star.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryBelgium, Canada, France
Duration02:30
CharactersPhotographers, Guests
PlotWedding, Divorce
PlaceParty, France, Castle
StyleLight, Soulful

Max is a battle-weary veteran of the wedding-planning racket. His latest — and last — gig is a hell of a fête, involving stuffy period costumes for the caterers, a vain, hyper- sensitive singer who thinks he's a Gallic James Brown, and a morose, micromanaging groom determined to make Max's night as miserable as possible. But what makes the affair too bitter to endure is that Max's colleague and ostensible girlfriend, Joisette, seems to have written him off, coolly going about her professional duties while openly flirting with a much younger server. It's going to be a very long night… especially once the groom's aerial serenade gets underway.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:58
CharactersJournalists, Losers
PlotInvestigation, Obsession, Mental disorders, Depression, Cheating
PlaceLondon, Los Angeles
StylePsychological problems, Atmospheric, Makes me think, Depressive, Serious

When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.

Markimdb: 9.3
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:22
CharactersScammers, Prisoner, Friends, Good people
PlotSurvival, Prison Break, The escape, Freedom, Fate
PlacePrison, Mexico, USA
StyleInteresting, Popular, To cry, Atmospheric, Fascinating

Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, United Arab Emirates, Japan
CharactersPhotographers, Disabled people, Alcoholics, Journalists, Reporters
PlotOn real events, Drug addict, Depression, Art, Environmental disasters
PlaceJapan
StyleSad ones, To cry, Touching, Depressive, Worth watching

A movie about reporter W. Eugene Smith and his research on mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan, resulting in severe neurological symptoms.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genredocumentary, biography, history
CountryFrance, Brazil, Italy
Duration01:50
CharactersPhotographers
PlotOn real events, Art
PlaceNature, Africa, France
StyleAtmospheric, Fascinating, Serious, Beautiful landscapes

During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of our recent history ; international conflicts, starvations and exodus… He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of the wild fauna and flora, of grandiose landscapes : a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty. Sebastião's Salgado's life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano, who went with him during his last journeys, and by Wim Wenders, a photographer himself.

Duration02:06
CharactersPhotographers
PlotPassion
PlaceParis, France
StylePsychological problems, Twisted plot, Smart, Tense, Serious

A woman tries to straighten out her life, even as her past as a con-woman comes back to haunt her.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genreaction, drama, western
CountryAustria, Germany
Duration01:55
PlotRevenge, Snow, Rivalry
PlaceVillage, Mountains, Small cities
Time19th century, Winter
StyleAction, By books, Heavy, Gloomy, Serious

Through a hidden path a lone rider reaches a little town high up in the Alpes. Nobody knows where the stranger comes from, nor what he wants there. But everyone knows that they don't want him to stay.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryCanada, South Africa
Duration01:46
CharactersPhotographers
PlotOn real events, Art
PlaceAfrica

In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked together to chronicle the violence and upheaval leading up to the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president. Their work is risky and dangerous, potentially fatally so, as they thrust themselves into the middle of chaotic clashes between forces backed by the government (including Inkatha Zulu warriors) and those in support of Mandela's African National Congress.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Mexico
Duration02:02
CharactersPhotographers

A second rated journalist from the US tries his luck in El Salvador during the military dictatorship in the 1980s.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, Belgium, Denmark, France
Duration01:43
CharactersBlonde girls, Cannibals, Models, Photographers
PlotMotorcycles, Obsession, Death, Jealousy, Rivalry
PlaceParty, Deserts, Los Angeles
StyleUnexpected ending, Psychological problems, Heavy, Tense, Not for everyone

When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:52
CharactersWriters, Photographers, Friends
PlotLove, Friendship, Love with age difference, Holidays
PlaceNew York
TimeNew Year
StylePsychological problems, To cry, Soulful, Smart, Black humor

Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genremelodrama
CountryDenmark
Duration02:04
CharactersModels, Photographers
PlotLove, Passion, Obsession, Breakup, Love triangle
PlaceParis, France, Night Clubs
StyleFascinating

When emerging fashion model Emma gets a chance to pursue her dream of becoming an international top model, she leaves her everyday life in Denmark behind, and moves to Paris. At a photo shoot in her new hometown, she meets the attractive photographer Shane White and they fall in love. But their relationship soon turns into a dangerous obsession for Emma.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:15
CharactersPhotographers, Housewives
PlotLove, Loneliness
StyleRomantic, Atmospheric, Heartbreaking

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredocumentary
CountryUSA

Follows a litter of puppies from the moment they're born and begin their quest to become Guide Dogs for the Blind, the ultimate canine career. Cameras follow these pups through a two-year odyssey as they train to become dogs whose ultimate responsibility is to protect their blind partners from harm.

Duration02:16
CharactersPhotographers
PlotObsession, Loneliness, Mental disorders, Rivalry
StyleAction, Disturbing

Sy "the photo guy" Parrish has lovingly developed photos for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually believes he's part of their family. When "Uncle" Sy's picture-perfect fantasy collides with an ugly dose of reality, what happens next "has the spine-tingling elements of the best psychological thrillers!"

Markimdb: 8
Genredocumentary, military
CountryLuxembourg
Duration01:36
CharactersPhotographers, Reporters
PlotWar, Political

Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.

Duration01:52
CharactersDisabled people, Photographers, Girlfriends, Nurses
PlotInvestigation, Loneliness
StylePsychological problems, Action, Smart, Disturbing

Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend Lisa Freemont and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:27
CharactersPhotographers, Losers
PlotArt
PlaceNew York
StyleFancy

A Baltimore sandwich shop employee becomes an overnight sensation when photographs he's taken of his weird family become the latest rage in the art world. The young man is called "Pecker" because he pecks at his food like a bird.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama, military, biography, history
CountrySpain
Duration01:21
CharactersDogs, Teens, Photographers
PlotWar, On real events
PlaceVillage, Concentration camp
TimeWorld War II
StyleAction, Fascinating, Heavy, Makes me think, Disturbing

Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:31
CharactersGangsters, Photographers
PlotBlackmail
PlaceNight Clubs, New York
StyleAction, Heavy, Serious, Disturbing

A crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrethriller, drama
CountryRussia
CharactersPhotographers, Captives
PlotObsession
StyleAction, Fascinating

Andrey is a well-known artist photographer who lives alone with his Labrador dog, Charley, in his own house with a swimming pool in a big city. While preparing for an important international exhibition, he meets a charming young woman Marina who turns out to be deaf and mute. Andrey brings Marina to his place, takes her photos and keeps her at his place for the night. The same repeats on the second day. Neither does he let her go away on the third day. Finally, the girl understands that she is a prisoner and tries to escape.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:47
CharactersPhotographers, Surgeons
PlotRevenge, Obsession, Friendship
PlaceEngland, USA, New York
StyleSmart

Les, a small-time celebrity photographer desperate to make it big, befriends Toby, a homeless young man with no direction except a vague desire to become an actor. When by chance, Toby becomes romantically involved with K'Harma Leeds, the hottest pop star of the moment, Les grows jealous and plots revenge.

Markimdb: 7
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure
CountryNorway
Duration01:39
CharactersMonsters, Giants, Students, Troll, Hunters
PlotSurvival, Adventure, Supernatural, Hunting
PlaceCaves, Forest, Norway
StyleExciting, Action, Atmospheric, Tense, Disturbing

A group of students investigates a series of mysterious bear killings, but learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll hunter.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:24
CharactersPhotographers
PlotRevenge, Pursuit
StyleDisturbing

A rising Hollywood actor decides to take personal revenge against a group of four persistent photographers to make them pay for almost causing a personal tragedy involving his wife and son.





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