Masculinity Movies

17-year-old Asher is split between his charismatic teacher and his brash father, who wants him to take over his scaffolding business.

After a visit to the Natural History Museum in Paris, Simon Esich is convinced that a prehistoric man has escaped from the Evolution Gallery and is...

A man in New York City spirals into performative masculinity and starts a support group to fix it—only to realize he never wanted healing, just...

Yael is at the beginning of puberty and is searching for his own identity between his virile big brother and his queer best friend Aaron. In the...

Ramin flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Veracruz,...

A mother and her son have left the marital home. The mother entrusts her son Jacques to a friend for the day. This is an opportunity for the little...

Five men meet on a self-development course run by a charismatic coach who promises to mend their relationship with their partners. The controversial...

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

Hop, a wanna-be-alpha bunny, and his timid son, Juniper, struggle to see eye to eye on their first hunting trip together, as Hop expects his son to...

Joey, an image-conscious 22 year-old student swept up in a new city begins to fall into an addiction of drugs to repress his inner demons. A...

Jaime and Pablo explore and work on their identity by telling us about their experiences and participating in a masculinity theatrical laboratory...

Marty is the ideal fifth grader—he gets good grades, listens to his teachers and doesn't start trouble in class. But a darkness is beginning to...

A meditation on the complex relationship of two brothers, exploring the interplay of notions of brotherhood, patronage, masculinity, and sexuality.

Selfhood follows 5 individuals and the difference between their sense of self compared to how they present theirselves to the outside world.

In France, as in the United States, an ideological divide is widening between girls and boys: "Young women born between 1995 and 2010 are...

A sheltered off-grid teenager with Tourette’s is forced into public school for his senior year, where he’s thrown into a world of...

Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial...

In this powerful new film based on his bestselling book, sociologist Michael Kimmel maps the troubling social world where boys become men -- a new...

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

A tailor named Ricardo, a classic Filipino film enthusiast, embraces these toxic masculine ideas, cultures, and behaviors from the films he watches....