Photography in Film: Favorites, Flaws, and Hidden Gems

Hi all,

I was recently thinking about films that focus on photography and photographers - not just as a prop, but as a theme: the mindset, the ethics, the obsession with light, the craft, and the way photography can shape memory and identity.
I don’t expect movies to be documentaries (and they often get darkroom/workflow details wrong), but I really enjoy films that at least capture the atmosphere of making images: waiting for the moment, chasing a project, dealing with editors/clients, or wrestling with the consequences of what you choose to show.
Here are a few photography-themed films I’ve seen:

Blow-Up (1966)
Rear Window (1954)
One Hour Photo (2002)
City of God (2002)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
Pecker (1998)
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
Finding Vivian Maier (2013, doc)
The Bang Bang Club (2010)
War Photographer (2001, doc)

Some of these are classics, some are more entertainment than realism, and some are documentaries that hit hard - but all of them shape how people imagine photography and photographers in one way or another.
I also came across a couple of lists while looking around:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_about_photographers
https://bestsimilar.com/tag/104-photographer
It’s hard to tell from lists alone which titles are actually worth watching for “photography interest value,” especially when some films focus more on the drama than the craft.
I’m curious what people here think:
Are there any films or documentaries about photography that you love despite their flaws - or avoid entirely? Obscure titles and guilty pleasures welcome. Also: which movie do you think gets the photographer mindset the most right?

Blow Up is one of my favourites.
How about The Bridges Of Madison County? It's a love story, but Clint Eastwood plays a photographer on assignment to photograph covered bridges.

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Andrew O'Neill said:

Blow Up is one of my favourites.

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Ditto that.
I also loved a Brazilian film, 'Found Memories' that features a stranger with a pinhole camera coming to a small village. Lots of good scenes of her makeshift darkroom and her explanations to the villagers of what she's doing. And some of the photos are really quite good. I just checked, and I see it's available on Amazon. And a clever plot twist too.

Kodachrome - Ben, a photographer is terminally ill, and has several rolls of Kodachrome he wants to have processed before he dies. Ben asks his son to drive him to Dwayne's Photo in Parsons Kansas, who will soon stop being the last place to process Kodachrome film.

It is really more of a relationship / roadtrip movie, and despite the title and plot, has very little to do with photography.

BTW, I am not suggesting this is a great movie, and I am not recommending anyone to watch it. It is an OK movie, but most people can still say they have had a rewarding life, even if they never saw it.

The Public Eye, 1992, Joe Pesci. Based on the life of Weegee.

Palermo Shooting by Wim Wenders.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being. If you watch carefully you will find some mistakes how the actress handles the Praktica.