Masculinity Movies

A chess game between two brothers gets ugly.

A teenager struggles with his identity after an unresolved family relationship.

In this musical documentary, alter egos Jonny Toxic and Jacco Macho set out on a journey across Italy and The Netherlands, exploring masculinity in co...

A professional wrestler struggles to reconcile his onstage and offstage personas.

A hard-hitting documentary that tackles head-on a controversial but increasingly alarming subject: young men's obsession with the perfect body, and th...

After his father gets into a fight at a bowling alley, Darious begins to investigate the limitations of his own manhood.

Dorothy (Fiona Samuel),a lone swimmer, luxuriates in tranquil bliss at a deserted pool — only to have her solitude rudely interrupted by a squad of s...

A documentary in which 5 men describe their experiences with gender dysphoria as they wrestled with feelings of inadequacy as men, and their ultimate...

A young man becomes obsessed with his new neighbour.

A young man eats alone at an LA cevicheria, processing his relationships, grief and questionable behaviours over a phone call.

A young latino model objectified for his race and body becomes pressured to reveal more and more of himself during a photoshoot.

A short film following Anthony, a young child from the small, rural town of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. We see him in different moments of his dai...

A crypto-trader and an ex-clergyman travel to Berlin to throw a sex party. Filmmaker Ayoto Ataraxia documents them and their sex-positive community wi...

Two men in the moors alone, fighting their free will and masculinity (or lack thereof).

The collective of antipatriarchal men is a political organization that, since 2010, organizes spaces of group self-reflection to problematize the role...

BLESSED BLESSED OBLIVION weaves together a portrait of masculine performativity in East Jerusalem, as manifested in gyms, body shops and hair dressing...

It used be that everyone knew what it meant to be a man. A man was rugged and reliable and got the job done. But then came the worst recession in 80 y...

In Robota, Verena Blok highlights the machinic power of the muscular, hyper-masculine body in motion, and draws attention to its former idealization a...

Artist Daniel Crook unpacks masculinity one painting at a time.

After a chaotic episode with his wife, Russian-Estonian worker Nikolai is left alone with their one year old daughter, Sophia. As time goes by, he beg...