As if it were a movie blog, today I’m going to recommend you a list of movies. But no, we haven’t changed third, at all. Our passion remains photography, even if it is closely linked to the seventh art, in addition. The thing is, they have in common that they’re photographer movies. Its protagonists or main actors are someone with whom you can identify because you share a passion, photography.
That’s why I wanted to talk to you about it, so when you want to watch a movie on the couch with your popcorn bowl in front of you or with a succulent ice cream (why not?), and you don’t know which one to choose, remember this list of photographer movies to have a good time joining two great hobbies. Well, if we count sofing or popcorn, would that be three hobbies?).
Let’s see them one by one
This is a comedy about Pecker, an 18-year-old who works in fast food sales and whose main hobby is photography (with a very personal style, however, an art dealer from New York noticed his work and convinced him to exhibit in his gallery. An exhibition that will make him known, but that will create problems with his family and friends. I leave you with the trailer that is in English but will help you get an idea:
We move from comedy to absolute drama with this real-life Brazilian film describing the world of organized crime in Cidade de Deus, a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, which runs from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, when drug trafficking and violence imposed its law on favelas.
The protagonist is Buscapé, who in the late 1960s is an 11-year-old boy, shy and sensitive, who observes the hard children of his neighborhood, their robberies, their fights, their daily clashes with the police. Of course, if he survives, he wants to be a photographer.
Meanwhile, Dadinho, a boy his age who moves into the neighborhood, dreams of being Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous criminal and begins his apprenticeship by buying local criminals, admires Cabeleira and his gang, who are dedicated to the mooring of gas trucks. One day, Cabeleira gives Dadinho a chance to commit his first murder.
Not suitable for very sensitive people
With the script of one of my favorite writers, Paul Auster, I present Smoke, a film where the protagonist is Auggie Wren, the owner of a tobacco, who in the same place and with the same frame, takes a photo every day.
In this film, several stories of different characters intersect where human relationships are as important as photography itself.
I think this scene is a very good summary of the film and its essence:
For the more romantic, this intense love story between a National Geographic photographer and a housewife who lives on a farm with her husband and two children, this scene will help you get an idea of the emotions that will make you feel.
Through flashbacks, this melodrama oscillates between the present and the past, telling the stormy love story between an American photographer and a young traveler, passing through Sarajevo and during the terrible Balkan War that ravaged the heart of the former Yugoslavia.
If you are from Llorera, prepare the tissues
The protagonist of this film is a photographer who has lost her prestige for her drug addiction, meets a young photographer who works for an important magazine and together they will undertake a job that will make them arrive very high, professional and personal.
In this case, if it looks like a biography of the great Diane Arbus, it is an imaginary account of her life. There are opinions of all kinds, but to give a better opinion to see it, right?
In this film, we discover Rebecca, one of the best war photographers in the world, who returns home after suffering serious injuries in Kabul, faces a great emotional storm when her husband refuses to endure the dangerous life she leads.
He and his two daughters need Rebecca and give her an ultimatum: her job or her family?
Martin is a blind photographer who, despite his arrogant and self-sufficient character, needs the care of Celia, a beautiful woman who loves him for a long time and with whom he has a sadistic relationship. The arrival of Andy, a lone dishwasher, in Martin’s life, leads these characters to get involved in a love triangle.
Harrison Lloyd, a prestigious Newsweek photojournalist, tired of spending long seasons away from his family, covering wars and various horrors, decided to quit his job on his return from Yugoslavia, where he must cover the beginnings of what appears to be a minor. Conflict. A few days later, he was reported missing; The conflict doesn’t seem so insignificant anymore. His wife Sarah, convinced that her husband is still alive, leaves armed with a camera in the Vukovar region, where he will experience the worst nightmare he had ever imagined.
Photography is capable of changing the world, of doing justice, and so demonstrates the story of Francisco Boix, a Catalan photographer imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp who risked his life to save the negatives that would serve during the Nuremberg trials in 1946.
A film that leaves its mark. Boyhood is a twelve year old recorded band whose central axis is the life of Mason from six to eighteen years, during this period there are all kinds of changes, changes and controversies, shaky relationships, marriages, different schools, first loves, disappointments and wonderful moments . An intimate journey based on the euphoria of childhood, the seismic changes of a modern family and the passage of time.
Although it is a documentary, it could well be the setting for an impressive film, such as blind photographer Sonia Soberats.
I’ll leave you with the synopsis, but I think it’s best if you see the trailer below:
Sonia Soberats, a Seventy-eight-year-old Venezuelan, lives alone in a modest apartment in New York, the pain that caused her to die of her two children only caused her to lose her sense of sight altogether, today she is engaged in blind photography. At different stages of Sonia’s life and work, we will observe how two concepts that seem totally antagonistic coexist in full harmony.
As you will see, you have very varied genres, why do you like colors ?. Classic films, warriors, romantics, cults, cooler or more entertaining. . . as you like. Of course, everyone has in common that these are photographer movies, so whatever your choice, will you get the right theme?.
And if you’re more of a documentary or movie where photography is even more weighty, you can’t miss those other documentaries and movies Alexa has selected in its day.
If you have others you want to share with others, be sure to mention it in the comments. This list can grow as much as you want! Thank you and good filming.