Movies Like Burning Lights

Children of Happiness

2024

John Candy: I Like Me

2025

Those who knew iconic funnyman John Candy best share his story, in their own words, through never-before-seen archival footage, imagery, and interviews.

Bramayugam

2024

A folk singer in 17th-century Kerala discovers a mansion. Inside, he encounters an enigmatic cook and a powerful master, setting in motion a chain of events that changes his life.

Love, Gilda

2018

Diaries, audiotapes, videotapes and testimonials from friends and colleagues offer insight into the life and career of Gilda Radner -- the beloved comic and actress who became an icon on Saturday Night Live.

Seven Up!

1964

A group of British children aged 7 from widely ranging backgrounds are interviewed about a range of subjects. The filmmakers plan to re-interview them at 7 year intervals to track how their lives and attitudes change as they age.

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye

2022

Join the likes of Jeremy Renner, Hailee Steinfeld, Florence Pugh, and Vincent D’Onofrio as they reveal how Marvel Studios’ “Hawkeye” was conceived and created. Witness firsthand what it took to pull off the show’s pulse-pounding action set pieces, and discover how iconic characters from the pages of Marvel Comics such as Kate Bishop were adapted and brought to life for the six-episode series.

Blackadder: Back & Forth

1999

What was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly incompetent friends, turns out to be the real thing and hurls him and his imbecile underling, Baldrick, through the course of human history.

Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear

2022

Explore the evolution of Buzz Lightyear from toy to human in the making of Pixar’s Lightyear. Dive into the origin and cultural impact of everyone’s favorite Space Ranger, the art of designing a new “human Buzz,” and the challenges faced by the Lightyear crew along the way.

Aladdin and the Magic Lamp

1936

George Pal animation short of the fable of Aladdin and the Magic Lamp.

Fajr

2019

In the Moroccan desert night dilutes forms and silence slides through sand. Dawn starts then to draw silhouettes of dunes while motionless figures punctuate landscape. From night´s abstraction, light returns its dimension to space and their volume to bodies. Stillness concentrates gaze and duration densify it. The adhan -muslim call to pray- sounds and immobility, that was condensing, begins to irradiate. And now the bodies are those which dissolves into the desert.

Jack Paints It Red

2025

A painter unleashes his craft onto a blank canvas.

The Suicide Squeeze

1986

A fascinating case of narrative deconstruction, THE SUICIDE SQUEEZE is a '40s style whodunit pressed through the wringer of an optical printer.

Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?

2013

A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn animation.

The Matrix Revisited

2001

The film goes behind the scenes of the 1999 sci-fi movie The Matrix.

Looking for Richard

1996

Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."

How to Play Football

1944

Taking all the places on both teams, Goofy demonstrates the game of football with varying results, having problems with the coach and the goal post.

In the Soup

1992

An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.

The Grandmother

1970

To escape neglect and abuse from his parents, a young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.