Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cinema_verite

1 sense of cinema verite

Sense 1
cinema verite -- (a movie that shows ordinary people in actual activities without being controlled by a director)
       => movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick -- (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location")