Movies about photographers

Movies about photographers
List of the best movies about photographers selected by visitors to our site: Triage, The Glass Castle, The Public Eye, War Story, Eyes of Laura Mars, Chinese Coffee, One Hour Photo, Delirious, The Bridges of Madison County, The Big Picture.

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

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, detective, military
CountryRepublic of Ireland, Spain, Belgium, France, Austria, Cayman Islands
Duration01:39

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

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:27

    A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    A crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.

    Markimdb: 4
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    Lee is a world-weary American woman who arrives in an Italian city. Her tangles with hotel staff, incessant smoking and her disregard of the persistently ringing telephone hint at her volatility brewing beneath the surface. Between fitful naps, she wanders the streets, snapping pictures of refugees as if her camera were both weapon and olive branch. Struggling to confront her demons, Lee resolves to help a beautiful young woman in need.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    A famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a killer.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    When Harry Levine, an aging, unsuccessful Greenwich Village writer is fired from his job as restaurant doorman, he calls on friend and mentor Jake, ostensibly to collect a long-standing debt. Harry solicits his opinion on his latest manuscript, a work of semi-fiction based on their longtime friendship. Although he initially denies having read it, Jake later attacks it on aesthetic grounds, and deep-seated feelings of betrayal and jealousy surface and lead to a traumatic confrontation.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:16

    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: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    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: 7.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:15

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

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:54

    Paul Exben is a success story – partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight out of a Gap catalog. But when he finds out that Sarah, his wife, is cheating on him with Greg Kremer, a local photographer, a rush of blood provokes Paul into a fatal error.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountrySweden, USA
    Duration02:52

    Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet invasion occurs, all three flee to Switzerland. Sabina begins an affair, Tom continues womanizing, and Tereza, disgusted, returns to Czechoslovakia. Realizing his mistake, Tomas decides to chase after her.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    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: 7
    Genredrama, military
    CountryUSA, Mexico
    Duration02:08

    Three U.S. journalists (Nick Nolte, Joanna Cassidy, Gene Hackman) get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    Wayne Dobie is a shy cop whose low-key demeanor has earned him the affectionate nickname "Mad Dog." After Mad Dog saves the life of Frank Milo, a crime boss and aspiring stand-up comedian, he's offered the company of an attractive young waitress named Glory for a week. At first both are uneasy about the arrangement, but they eventually fall in love. However, the situation becomes complicated when Milo demands Glory back.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    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: 5.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:24

    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.

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

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

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:44

    A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genredrama
    CountryGermany, France, Italy
    Duration01:43

    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: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryItaly, Spain
    Duration02:07

    Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.

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

    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: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryTurkey
    Duration01:58

    Year 1977, a September morning in Ankara... Yilmaz tries to rush his pregnant wife Neriman to the hospital and he crashes into Omer's car. The causes Omer's pregnant wife Inci, who was in the back seat, to have a pre-term labor. The babies are born on the same day. They see each other for the first time... This accident is the threshold of the coincidences that bring Ozgur and Deniz together. They come across each other in Ankara several times during their childhood and youth. Each intersection has a butterfly effect, resulting in drastic changes in their lives. They sometimes cause disasters, sometimes miracles. However, they can never be together. Whatever it is that brings them together, manages to build a transparent wall between them. Until they come across each other again in Istanbul, 25 years later... --Anonymous (imdb)

    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    Duration02:06

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

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:01

    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: 8.6
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryBrazil, France
    Duration02:10

      Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by the point of view of the narrator, Buscapé. Buscapé was raised in a very violent environment. Despite the feeling that all odds were against him, he finds out that life can be seen with other eyes...

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrecomedy
      CountryItaly

      Poet Palmambrogio Guanziroli loses his wallet mere moments after arriving in Milan. He locates the culprit, a photographer nicknamed 'Click' and takes up residence with him until he either gets his money back or his poetry published.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, United Arab Emirates, Japan

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

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror
      CountryUSA, Canada, Australia

      Anthony and his partner move into a loft in the now gentrified Cabrini-Green, and after a chance encounter with an old-timer exposes Anthony to the true story behind Candyman, he unknowingly opens a door to a complex past that unravels his own sanity and unleashes a terrifying wave of violence.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:21

      Ingrid becomes obsessed with a social network star named Taylor Sloane who seemingly has a perfect life. But when Ingrid decides to drop everything and move west to be Taylor's friend, her behaviour turns unsettling and dangerous.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genredrama, military, biography, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      April 14, 1865. One gunshot. One assassin hell-bent on killing a tyrant, as he charged the 16th President of the United States. And in one moment, our nation was forever changed. This is the most dramatic and resonant crime in American history: the true story of the killing of Abraham Lincoln. From Executive Producers Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, and narrated by Tom Hanks, National Geographic Channel's first ever docudrama, Killing Lincoln, based on the New York Times bestseller, combines re-creations with historical insight in a thrilling chronicle of the final days of President Lincoln and his assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

      In New York, a struggling actress and a successful writer sing about their failed marriage from two perspectives.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      Thirty-something Elizabeth must decide whether to salvage her disappointing relationship with Drew. Meanwhile, Bea, a worrisome teenager, reconnects with her introverted childhood friend, Andy, at their high school prom. Past and present collide as two couples explore love over the course of one night at a hotel.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA, China
      Duration02:27

      A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:32

      A widow falls for a guy who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband.

      Markimdb: 2.3
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:39

      A sheriff must rescue an estranged family from the impending eruption of a volcano, at the same time fighting off a horde of lava-filled zombies brought to life by the cursed mountains.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryGermany, India, USA

      A struggling street photographer, pressured to marry by his grandmother, convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée. The pair develops a connection that transforms them in ways that they could not expect.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA, Belgium, Denmark, France
      Duration01:43

        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: 5.6
        Genrecomedy, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:27

        Based on a stranger than fiction true story, King Cobra is a deliciously dark, twisted plunge into the behind-the-scenes world of the pornography industry. A young Sean Paul Lockhart (using the stage name 'Brent Corrigan') is a fresh-faced wannabe adult video performer. He is moulded into a star by Stephen (aka Bryan Kocis), a closeted gay porn mogul who runs the skin flick empire Cobra Video from his seemingly ordinary suburban home. But as Brent’s rise and demands for money put him at odds with his boss, he also attracts the attention of a rival producer, Joseph Kerekes, and his unstable lover, Harlow Cuadra, who will stop at nothing to squash Cobra Video and steal its number one star.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genremelodrama, drama, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:35

        The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA

        Directed by Clint Eastwood and based on true events, "Richard Jewell" is a story of what happens when what is reported as fact obscures the truth. "There is a bomb in Centennial Park. You have thirty minutes." The world is first introduced to Richard Jewell as the security guard who reports finding the device at the 1996 Atlanta bombing-his report making him a hero whose swift actions save countless lives. But within days, the law enforcement wannabe becomes the FBI's number one suspect, vilified by press and public alike, his life ripped apart. Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrecomedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:18

        Two guys serendipitously meet at a time when they both find themselves at personal crossroads and decide to embark on an unplanned road trip across the American Southwest.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Qatar
        Duration02:10

        In New York, a Pakistani native finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryJapan, USA

        A woman at a crossroads traveling to Cannes along with her successful film producer husband, finds herself on a two-day road trip with his business associate. What follows is a carefree journey replete with diversions involving picturesque sites, fine food and wine, humor, wisdom and romance - reawakening Anne's senses and a new lust for life.

        Markimdb: 4.3
        Genrehorror
        CountryUSA

        A monster from a little girl's nightmares comes to life and attacks anyone who would harm her.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Australia, USA
        Duration02:11

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

        Markimdb: 7
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA

        A Los Angeles extreme-sports photographer returns home for the holiday to take care of her grandmother, only to have a neighbor grab her attention as he needs assistance watching his young nephew.

        Markimdb: 4.5
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:32

        A photojournalist suffering from PTSD returns home from Iraq and finds himself struggling to keep his sanity and family intact.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, adventure, biography
        CountryUSA

        Lucy, a small-town girl from Ohio, discovers the delightfully bizarre films of legendary filmmaker Federico Fellini and sets off on a journey across Italy to find him.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genredrama
        CountryFrance, Belgium, USA
        Duration02:24

        While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrecomedy
        CountryUSA

        Hilarity, romance, and transcendence prevail after a power outage traps six different groups of New Yorkers inside elevators on Christmas Eve.




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