Portrait of God (2001)
• April 20th, 2001 • 1h 10min
Documentary, History
Overview
Portrait of God is a documentary road movie about the manhunt for the most wanted person in the world. The film is constructed as a classic detective story. A middle-aged detective shadows the suspect through the highs and lows of South African society until he ends up in a gigantic prison in Cape Town bursting with murderers, thieves, and rapists.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
An Enclosure
Released on: 1999-03-05
Documentary
We discover a modest, almost derisory garden, located in the heart of the women's prison in Rennes, ...
God, Give Us Freedom
Released on: 2013-01-01
Documentary
The film is about a woman’s prison and shows how creativity transforms people and gives them strengt...
The Color Purple
Released on: 1985-12-18
Drama, History
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...
The Big One
Released on: 1997-09-06
Documentary
The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country ...
Malcolm X
Released on: 1992-11-18
Drama, History
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...
Salvador (Puig Antich)
Released on: 2006-05-23
Drama, History
The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...
Emperors of Nothing
Released on: 2024-05-08
Documentary
Emperors of Nothing is an unprecedented immersion within Forest, a prison in Brussels notorious for ...
A Tale of Singers and Murderers
Released on: 2016-12-03
Documentary
The documentary depicts the remarkable phenomenon of the national competition Kalina Krasnaya, organ...
Brother, Where Are You?
Released on: 2022-11-11
Drama, History
Two brothers, separated by time and prison bars, reestablish contact. Inspired by James Baldwin's sh...
Survivor's Guide to Prison
Released on: 2018-02-23
Documentary, Crime
Today, you're more likely to go to prison in the United States than anywhere else in the world. So i...
The Prison Within
Released on: 2020-01-17
Documentary
Survivors of violent crimes and prisoners incarcerated for murder connect to undergo astonishing tra...
Hunger
Released on: 2008-05-15
Drama, History
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which...
Hell
Released on: 2019-10-16
Documentary
Chennu committed his first crime when he was 15 years old: being a street kid. And he entered hell: ...
Wilde
Released on: 1997-09-01
Drama, History
Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...
The Mind of a Murderer: Part 2
Released on: 1984-03-26
Documentary, Crime
A look at the trial and the use of psychiatric evidence in the criminal proceedings of mass murderer...
The Iceman and the Psychiatrist
Released on: 2004-06-01
Documentary, Crime, Thriller, Horror
For the third time, HBO cameras go inside Trenton State Maximum Security Prison--and inside the mind...
Standard Operating Procedure
Released on: 2008-02-12
Documentary, War
Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S...
In the Valley of Elah
Released on: 2007-09-14
History, Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's d...
Latvian Coyote
Released on: 2019-12-01
Documentary
An absurd game of “finding happiness” is being played by local Latvian coyotes* and illegal immigran...
Lost for Life
Released on: 2013-06-22
Crime, Documentary
A documentary about juveniles who are serving life in prison without parole and their victims' famil...