Masculinity Movies

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

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

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...

What does mean to be gay and be a man? There's no straight answer for sure. From the Castro culture of the 1970s to today’s Bears and gym rats,...

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 professional wrestler struggles to reconcile his onstage and offstage personas.

In a world where security is fleeting and momentary... Dorothy has a safe spot... the middle of an empty swimming pool. Suddenly a team intent on...

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

A rugby stadium in southwestern France. Each and every Sunday, bodies collide. Along the sidelines, Louis and his juniors comrades are fascinated by...

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

A middle-aged man chases a 40-year-old man who insulted his masculinity. He is not ready for impulsive revenge, although the sharp development of...

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

Hit after hit, pop-icon Harry Styles, once the centerpiece of the world's biggest boy bands has grown into someone who isn't afraid of...

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

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

Distracted by life, Mr. Makkonen misses his engagement party by decades. From the cradle to the grave, life keeps interrupting, not only him, but a...

Wild Youth is an ode to being young. A sensitive and intimate story of the first experiences of losing one's childlike innocence, questioning the...

Contemporary artists decide to reverse the roles and represent fragile, graceful or strange male bodies, without hesitating to eroticize them.

Two boys arrive at a remote summer camp in the Vermont woods. Free from screens and societal expectations, they learn to open up, support one...