Morris' films have been characterized as portraits that focus on the psychology of individuals or cities. Her films about cities, like "Midtown", "Chicago", "Los Angeles", and "Rio" depict urban scenes, capturing the architecture, politics, industry and leisure which define a specific place. Other films describe a place through the viewpoint of an individual, like psychologist Dr. George Sieber describing the terrorist event at the Olympic Stadium in Munich in the film "1972" or the industry politics of Hollywood from the viewpoint of screenwriter and producer in the eponymous film Robert Towne.