Nick Broomfield — Director (21)

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Dark Obsession (1990)
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other title: Diamond Skulls / 黑夜情迷 …
Hugo Buckton seems to have it all: He is apparently rich and has a beautiful wife and a doting son. In actuality, though, Hugo is having money problems and is paranoid that his wife is cheating on him. After a boozy night at a party, Hugo hits and kills a woman with his car -- and at his friends' urging, keeps driving. When Hugo starts receiving letters from someone who knows about the accident, he begins to suspect that he has been set up.

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Who Cares (1971)
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Documentarian Nick Broomfield examines the problems of slum demolition and the removal of residents to new housing blocks.

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Juvenile Liaison (1976)
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Juvenile Liaison is about the day-to-day assignments of the juvenile liaison section of the Blackburn, Lancashire police force. The documentary provides a captivating snapshot of how juvenile offenders were dealt with in the '70s.

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The Stones and Brian Jones (2023)
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尼克·布鲁姆菲尔德 actor: 布赖恩·琼斯 / 米克·贾格尔 …
other title: 滚石与布莱恩·琼斯
For Brian Jones, the Rolling Stones were meant to be a blues band, or at least R&B. The band’s pivot to rock and pop soon after he had started it at the age of 19 is symbolic of his own life veering off course: the insecurity instilled by bourgeois parents who never said a kind word, the redemption he found in music and then promptly lost to his creative envy of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and his serial infatuations, which resulted in a habit of flitting between women and abandoning the children he had with them. Thus, the sex symbol with gorgeous hair who craved greatness ended up succumbing to depression and self-destruction. Using a wealth of archival footage and interviews with people who had intimate knowledge of Jones’ many facets, director Nick Broomfield (Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love) unravels the sad story of a musical legend.

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The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver's Wife (1991)
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Nick Broomfield actor: Nick Broomfield / Eugene Terre'Blanche …
other title: 領導者,他的司機和司機夫人 / The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife …
From award-winning director Nick Broomfield, The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver's Wife documents Broomfield's efforts to interview Eugene Terre'Blanche, leader of the sinister neo-nazi AWB Afrikaner Party in South Africa. Cameras capture awkward interactions with skittish AWB supporters, combat training of militant youth, and the coveted interview itself. Broomfield's access to these events is made possible by the leader's driver, whose wavering allegiance to the movement is explored as well.

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Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1994)
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other title: 出售连环杀手 / アイリーン・ウォーノス:セリング・オブ・ア・シリアル・キラー …
In this documentary, filmmaker Nick Broomfield follows the saga of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who has been accused of committing a brutal series of murders. Broomfield conducts interviews with Wuornos herself, and his crew films her trial as well as her interactions with religious fanatic Arlene Pralle, who gives Wuornos dubious advice and legally adopts her. The cameras also roll as the accused's attorney ignores the case at hand to negotiate a deal to sell his client's story.

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Biggie & Tupac (2002)
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other title: 说唱烈士 / Biggie and Tupac …
Biggie & Tupac is a 2002 feature-length documentary film about slain rap icons The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur, made by Nick Broomfield. It is an investigation of the deaths of the two icons, which some people claim were orchestrated by Suge Knight, head of Death Row Records. Collusion on behalf of the LAPD is also examined. While the film remains inconclusive, when asked "Who killed Tupac?" in a BBC Radio interview dated March 7, 2005, Broomfield stated (quoting Snoop Dogg) "The big guy next to him in the car... Suge Knight."

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Fetishes (1996)
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other title: 恋物情绪 / Mistresses and Domination at Pandora's Box …
For two weeks, Nick Broomfield and a documentary crew visit Pandora's Box, an up-scale house of bondage on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, where clients pay $175 an hour to be subservient to mistresses. Mistresses talk about their craft; a few clients, usually masked, are interviewed as well. Then, the camera watches sessions organized around fetishes: rubber, wrestling, corporal punishment, masochism, and infantilism. Mistress Raven, the owner of Pandora's Box, explains that pain need not be part of the subservient experience: it is, at its root, a transfer of power. After their session has ended, clients talk about how drained, relaxed, relieved, and at peace they are.

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Tales of the Grim Sleeper (2014)
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Nick Broomfield / 尼克·布鲁姆菲尔德 actor: 尼克·布鲁姆菲尔德 / Lonnie Franklin Jr. …
other title: 残酷睡客的故事 / 테일즈 오브 더 그림 슬리퍼 …
In 2010, the Los Angeles police arrested Lonnie Franklin, a middle-aged African American, for the murder of ten women over the course of 25 years. Few were aware of the serial killings (Franklin may have killed many more), and his neighbors in South Central described him as a decent guy who worked hard and resisted drug gangs. Director and on-screen interviewer Nick Broomfield (BIGGIE AND TUPAC, HEIDI FLESS: HOLLYWOOD MADAM), along with his son Barney, and Marc Hoeferlin, dig for information, uncovering a murky, hellish tale of brutality and depravity fueled by economic desperation, institutional racism and crack cocaine. And we wonder: Would the LAPD let a killer operate for a quarter-century in a white, middle-class neighborhood? Broomfield’s interviews with survivors of near-fatal encounters with the killer are riveting and heartbreaking.

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Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)
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other title: 一个连环杀手的生与死 / 에일린: 연쇄살인범의 삶과 죽음 …
British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial.

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Kurt & Courtney (2005)
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尼克·布鲁姆菲尔德 actor: 尼克·布鲁姆菲尔德 / 科特·柯本
other title: 科特和考特妮 / 커트 코베인 …
After rocker Kurt Cobain's death, ruled a suicide, a film crew arrives in Seattle to make a documentary. Director Nick Broomfield talks to lots of people. Portraits emerge: a shy, slight Kurt, weary of touring, embarrassed by fame, hooked on heroin; an out-going Courtney, dramatic, controlling, moving from groupie to star.

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Battle for Haditha (2007)
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★ 7.4 16 ratings
other title: 哈迪塞镇之战 / 哈迪塞报复行动 …
An investigation of the massacre of 24 men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq allegedly shot by 4 U.S. Marines in retaliation for the death of a U.S. Marine killed by a roadside bomb. The movie follows the story of the Marines of Kilo Company, an Iraqi family, and the insurgents who plant the roadside bomb.

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Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love (2019)
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★ 6.8 5 ratings
Nick Broomfield actor: Leonard Cohen / Marianne Ihlen …
other title: 玛丽安和莱昂纳德:情话 / 玛丽安与李欧纳:爱的箴言(台) …
A story of enduring love between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. The film follows their relationship from the early days in Greece, a time of ‘free love’ and open marriage, to how their love evolved when Leonard became a successful musician.

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Sex: My British Job (2013)
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尼克·布鲁姆菲尔德 actor: 白晓红 / 尼克·布鲁姆菲尔德
other title: 性:我的英国工作 / 在英国的中国妓女
英籍台湾裔记者、撰稿人白晓红在几家华人开设的按摩院(妓院)卧底偷拍纪录片。 白晓红应聘的工作是“保姆”,工作内容包括接电话,为客人开门,收钱,买菜做饭,清洁,打杂等。 根据惯例,按摩院老板不断要求她part time接客,遭到拒绝后先是晓之以理情理,后来变为言语虐待和各种压榨,逼得白晓红最后请导演Nick Broomfield假扮嫖客进来。 纪录片很真实,也有很多笑点,揭示了一定的社会现象。 白晓红今年4月出版的第3本英文著作《隐形:海外性工作者在英国 》(Invisible: Britain's Migrant Sex Workers)中包括这部纪录片中的内容。书更加详尽、具体,而且还有约三分之一的内容讲述在英国的东欧妓女的生活,不像纪录片,仅有一点点东欧妓女的内容。 BBC英伦网关于《隐形:海外性工作者在英国 》(Invisible: Britain's Migrant Sex Workers)对白晓红本人的专访报道: