9 best movies like Workingman's Death (2005)

List of the best movies like Workingman's Death (2005): The Happy Film, Whores' Glory, The Gutenberg Enigma, Pope Francis: A Man of His Word, Chamisso’s Shadow, Epicentro, Darwin's Nightmare, Martin Margiela: In His Own Words, Wrong Elements.

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Markimdb: 7.4
Genredocumentary
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France, Austria, Indonesia

New York designer Stefan Sagmeister lives in the city of his dreams, and creates work for the likes of the Rolling Stones and Jay-Z. Business is good, creative juices are flowing, and yet he suspects there must be more to life. Sagmeister takes on the daunting project of changing his personality by trying to figure out the causes of happiness. On the advice of a trusted psychologist Sagmeister experiments with three different approaches: meditation, therapy, and drugs. The Happy Film follows his pursuit, and all that he encounters along the way: joy, ecstasy, heartbreak, change, love, and death.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredocumentary
CountryGermany, Austria, Thailand, France
Duration01:50

Tells several stories of sex work around the world. The documentary revolves around the lives and individual hopes, needs and experiences of the women.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredocumentary
CountryFrance, Germany, Austria

A portrait of the inventor of the letterpress, who was a key figure in the history of mankind, but also an enthusiastic inventor, a daring businessman, a tenacious troublemaker: the life of Johannes Gutenberg (circa 1400-68).

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredocumentary, biography
CountryLuxembourg, Italy, Germany, France

Pope Francis responds to questions from around the world, discussing topics including ecology, immigration, consumerism and social justice.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredocumentary
CountryGermany, Austria, Luxembourg

It starts with "Peter Schlemihl's Miraculous Story", which tells of a man travelling the world in seven-league boots. Adelbert von Chamisso wrote the tale before setting off to Russia on scientific expedition in 1815. He analysed the flora of Alaska and then explored the Northwest Passage, just like Cook and voyager Bering had done previously, the latter with physician and naturalist Steller in tow. A porthole reveals the view. Thus begins Ottinger's journey from Alaska to Kamchatka via Chukotka, with her predecessors’ log books to accompany her on her way.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredocumentary
CountryAustria, France

Cuba is well known as a so-called time capsule. The place where the New World was discovered has become both a romantic vision and a warning. With ongoing global cultural and financial upheavals, large parts of the world could face a similar kind of existence.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredocumentary
CountryAustria, Belgium, France, Germany

Africa in the sixties. The Nile perch, a ravenous predator, is introduced into Lake Victoria as a scientific experiment, causing the extinction of many native species. Its meat is exported everywhere in exchange for weapons, creating a globalized evil alliance on the lake shores. An infernal nightmare in the real world that wipes out Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredocumentary, biography
CountryGermany, Belgium, France

In 2008, after a show celebrating the 20th anniversary of his fashion house, Maison Margiela, visionary designer Martin Margiela left the fashion world for good. Throughout his career, the Belgian designer remained anonymous, refusing interviews and never being photographed, leading some to call him the fashion world’s answer to Banksy. Now, more than a decade after his departure, Margiela digs into his meticulous and idiosyncratic personal archives to reflect on his revolutionary career and legacy.

Markimdb: 7
Genredocumentary
CountryFrance, Belgium, Germany
Duration01:31

Uganda, 1989. A young Acholi rebel guided by spirits, Joseph Kony, forms a new rebel movement against the government: the LRA, The Lord’s Resistance Army. An “army” that grew by abducting teenagers – more than 60 000 over 25 years – of which less than half came out of the bush alive. Geofrey, Nighty and Mike, a group of friends, as well as Lapisa, were among these youths, abducted at 12 or 13. Today, in their effort to rebuild their lives and go back to normal, they revisit the places that marked their stolen childhood. At the same time victims and murderers, witnesses and perpetrators of horrific acts that they did not fully understand, they are forever the "Wrong Elements" that society struggles to accept. Meanwhile, in the immensity of the Central African jungle, the Ugandan army still continues to hunt the last scattered LRA rebels. But Joseph Kony is still out there, on the run.




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