Movies Like L'Orientalisme
If you liked L'Orientalisme (2019), a documentary movie directed by Nicolas Thépot, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Cutie and the Boxer (2013)
★ 6.9/10Also documentaryThis candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko. Anxious to shed her role as her overbearing husband's assistant, Noriko finds an…
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12 Days (2017)
★ 7.1/10Also documentaryA new documentary by filmmaker-photographer Raymond Depardon – where justice and psychiatry meet.
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Come See Me in the Good Light (2025)
★ 7.1/10Also documentaryIn an intimate and joyful story of love in the face of loss, celebrated poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley find strength—and unexpected hilarity—in what might be their final year together.
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Frank and Ollie (1995)
★ 7.4/10Also documentaryBefore computer graphics, special effects wizardry, and out-of-this world technology, the magic of animation flowed from the pencils of two of the greatest animators The Walt Disney Company ever produced -- Frank…
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McQueen (2018)
★ 7.4/10Also documentaryAlexander McQueen's rags-to-riches story is a modern-day fairy tale, laced with the gothic. Mirroring the savage beauty, boldness and vivacity of his design, this documentary is an intimate revelation of McQueen's own…
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Statues Also Die (1953)
★ 6.9/10Also documentaryCommissioned by the journal Présence Africaine, this short documentary examines how African art is devalued and alienated through colonial and museum contexts. Beginning with the question of why African works are…
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Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (2016)
★ 6.9/10Also documentaryNude men in rubber suits, close-ups of erections, objects shoved in the most intimate of places—these are photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe, known by many as the most controversial photographer of the twentieth…
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Everybody’s Everything (2019)
★ 8.4/10Also documentaryThe story of artist Lil Peep from his birth in Long Island and meteoric rise as a genre blending pop star & style icon, to his death due to an accidental opioid overdose in Arizona at just 21 years of age.
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La cravate (2020)
★ 6.9/10Also documentaryBastien is twenty years old and has been an activist for five years in the main extreme right party. When the presidential campaign begins, he's invited by his superior to commit even further. Initiated into the art of…
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Louis Theroux: Louis and the Nazis (2003)
★ 7.2/10Also documentaryLouis Theroux travels to California to meet the man dubbed "the most dangerous racist in America"; Tom Metzger. Louis meets him, his family and his publicity manager as well as following him to skinhead rallies and on…
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Bambi: A Tale of Life in the Woods (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also documentaryThe life of Bambi, a male roe deer, from his birth through childhood, the loss of his mother, the finding of a mate, the lessons he learns from his father, and the experience he gains about the dangers posed by human…
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Welcome to Chechnya (2020)
★ 7/10Also documentaryThis searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Unfettered access and a…
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Woman (2020)
★ 7.7/10Also documentaryThe film is based on interviews with 2,000 women from 50 countries, and covers the status of women all over the world. The topics covered include forced marriages, sexual assault, female genital mutilation, acid…
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Vernon, Florida (1981)
★ 6.8/10Also documentaryErrol Morris intersplices random chatter he captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida. A few examples? The preacher giving a sermon on the definition of the word 'Therefore', and the…
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Behind the Curve (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also documentaryMeet the growing, worldwide community of theorists who defend the belief that the Earth is flat while living in a society who vehemently rejects it.
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Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)
★ 7.1/10Also documentaryWith this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilizing moviemaking magic and her family’s dark humor, she celebrates Dr. Dick Johnson’s last years by…
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Downfall: The Case Against Boeing (2022)
★ 7.1/10Also documentaryInvestigators reveal how Boeing’s alleged priority of profit over safety could have contributed to two catastrophic crashes within months of each other.
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I Am Divine (2014)
★ 7.3/10Also documentaryHarris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine (1945-1988) was the ultimate outsider turned underground hero. Spitting in the face of the status quos of body image, gender identity, sexuality, and preconceived notions of beauty…
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Terror's Advocate (2007)
★ 6.6/10Also documentaryA documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla, exploring how Vergès assisted, from the 1960s onwards, anti-imperialist terrorist cells operating in Africa, Europe…
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A Toxic Love Story (2026)
★ 6.4/10Also documentaryA string of threatening emails escalates into a revenge plot involving a newly married US marshal and his ex-girlfriend.