Masculinity Movies

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

Examines how a US value system built on the extreme masculine ideals of money, power and control has glorified individualism, institutionalized...

Chilo and Omar seem to be the only two men on earth. They live on a solitary beach and their constant activity is fishing to survive. Their...

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

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

Drag Queens and their cabaret shows are well-known in France, but Drag Kings still remain very much on the sidelines. Chriss Lag traveled all over...

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...

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...

Adult men grapple with social stigmas to pursue their passion for wrestling. Includes an in-depth look at wrestling homoeroticism and homophobia.

Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation.

The internal journey of eight men, who, through a theater workshop, go through the different prisons they inhabit. Practicing the art of seeing...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Artist Daniel Crook unpacks masculinity one painting at a time.

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

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