Tattoo Movies

An exploration of how the once taboo art form has become socially acceptable.

Mathematician Teresa just wanted to study during the College spring break. But her friends, who want her to live a little, drag her out to parties....

A man's body turns up on a Barcelona beach with a message tattooed on his arm: "I was born to revolutionize hell". Detective Pepe Carvalho is put in...

The young Iranian woman had not been expecting this kind of examination. She only wanted to renew her driver’s license, but when the officials...

Detectives investigate the Central Park murder of a young woman with a Marine Corps tattoo.

In 1997 New York, amidst a 30-year tattoo ban, Bonnie, an underground tattoo artist, offers to help a woman wishing to cover a scar from her abusive...

In this western, a decent Indian agent loses his job and his good name after someone steals the government money he was to deliver to a tribe....

Nicole is an introverted Liverpudlian teenager, all but deserted by her parents, with a mother distractedly working nights and a father who has...

Reflects a depressing and hopeless reality by following some of the members of "la dieciocho", the so-called 18th Street gang in a poor San Salvador...

Lilly and Cece are life-long best friends. However when matching tattoos and some mysterious ink jeopardize their friendship they have to face the...

Sailors in repose on an island paradise seemingly have no worries of war or danger — until a playful gesture is interpreted as an act of wilful...

A visit with a master of the Oldest Art In The World: tattooing. Disabled by arthritis since the age of four, confined to a wheelchair, his growth...

Jebediah’s story – the Brotherhood begins.

A bold reveal of a rose tattoo opens this 1980 documentary on tattooing in New Zealand. The potted history includes visits to tattoo parlours on K'...

Vincent, still of tender age, has already tattooed most of his body and hoarsened his voice with his post-hardcore band – his way of venting...

Michael Regardie is a lonely, delusional and sick religious zealot of his own invented faith -a faith that justifies hideous rituals of murder, rape...

Tattoo girls is a memoir of life as it is and of women as they are. A window to the lives of seven women from the same city where nothing is exactly...

Tattooing — "the world's oldest skin game" — is the subject of this iconic documentary. Writer/director Geoff Steven scored a major coup...