Documentary
A visually stunning narrative documentary, NAKED GARDENS immerses audiences in the complex, unseen world of a family nudist resort in the Florida Everglades. Filmed over one season at this lush tropical campsite, the film follows the stories of individuals drawn to an unusual community, which promises both non-conformist values and, more importantly for some, a cheap place to live. As aging owner Morley and his residents prepare for the largest gathering of nudists in the US, the Mid-Winter Naturist Festival, they are faced with challenges both as a community and as individuals.
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Naked in the 21st Century: A Journey Through Naturism
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IMDB 10 | Oct , 2024
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IMDB 2 | May , 2019
In the midst of the chaos of México City, a group of eight bachelor millennials who call themselves ´The Hermits´, open the doors to their tiny apartments in the historic Ermita Building, in the yet-to-be gentrified neighborhood of Tacubaya, and share their life experiences in a time when precarity changes the way in which we love, feel and relate to each other. As we explore the homes of these eight neighbors, we also witness their personalities intersect in a Whatsapp chat, a virtual space that functions as a supporting system that helps them face the adversities that living alone in this city brings.I Am Another You
IMDB 7.6 | Mar , 2017
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 1999
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IMDB 7 | Feb , 2021
Behind the gates of a palm-tree-lined fantasyland, three residents and one interloper at America’s largest retirement community strive to find happiness.Vernon, Florida
IMDB 6.7 | Oct , 1981
Early Errol Morris documentary intersplices random chatter he captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida. A few examples? The preacher giving a sermon on the definition of the word "Therefore," and the obsessive turkey hunter who speaks reverentially of the "gobblers" he likes to track down and kill.Naked in the 21st Century: A Journey Through Naturism
IMDB 1 | Jul , 2004
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IMDB 7.3 | Oct , 2008
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IMDB 6.3 | Jul , 2011
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IMDB 10 | Aug , 2025
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IMDB 6.2 | Nov , 2005
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IMDB 6.3 | Sep , 2019
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IMDB 0 | Oct , 2015
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IMDB 0 | Apr , 2017
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IMDB 0 | Feb , 2025
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IMDB 7.3 | May , 2021
Anita Chitaya has a gift: she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and maybe she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home in Malawi from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real. Traveling from Malawi to California to the White House, she meets climate sceptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions that shape the USA: from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, and to the American exceptionalism that remains a part of the culture. It will take all her skill and experience to help Americans recognise, and free themselves from, a logic that is already destroying the Earth.An immersion into the Divine Feminine
IMDB 10 | Aug , 2017
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IMDB 6.6 | Oct , 2009
The story of a little loggerhead turtle, as she follows in the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world. Born on a beach in Florida, she rides the Gulf Stream up towards the Arctic and ultimately swims around the entire North Atlantic across to Africa and back to the beach where she was born. But the odds are stacked against her; just one in ten thousand turtles survive the journey.Diary of a Teenage Nudist
IMDB 2.5 | Dec , 2004
Documentary from the point of view of a now 18 year old girl who grew up in a nudist colony.Wacken
IMDB 6.4 | Jul , 2014
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