Movies Like The Beating Heart
If you liked The Beating Heart, a documentary and romance movie directed by Vincent Delerm, 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.
- 1
Crazy Love (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also documentary and romanceFilmmaker Dan Klores examines the strange love affair of Burt Pugach and Linda Riss. Pugach is a successful attorney in 1950s New York when he meets much-younger Riss. The pair date, but Riss breaks off contact with…
- 2
A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also documentary and romanceThe egocentric documentary-maker Chris Waitt traces his romantic ineptitude and sexual impotence through awkward interviews with irate ex-girlfriends and stunts involving S&M parlours, Harley Street doctors and…
- 3
Atlantis Rising (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also documentary and mysteryJames Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici go on an adventure to find the lost city of Atlantis by using Greek philosopher Plato as a virtual treasure map.
- 4
The Imposter (2012)
★ 7.3/10Also documentary and mysteryIn 1994, a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture…
- 5
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020)
★ 6.5/10Also documentary and mysteryThis remarkable journey across our planet and universe explores how meteorites, shooting stars, and deep impacts have awoken our wonder about other realms—and make us rethink our destinies.
- 6
The Revelation of the Pyramids (2010)
★ 6.6/10Also documentary and mysteryFor centuries, the Great Pyramids have fascinated Mankind. Patrice Pooyard's The Revelation Of The Pyramids reveals what lies behind the greatest of archaeological mysteries: a message of paramount importance for…
- 7
Misha and the Wolves (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also documentary and mysteryA woman’s Holocaust memoir takes the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher-turned-detective reveals her story as an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth.
- 8
Lost on Everest (2020)
★ 7.6/10Also documentary and mysteryReaching 29,029 feet, Mount Everest has long captivated mountaineers of all stripes. But a peak that draws athletes and mountaineers to new heights isn’t without danger — or a dark side. Perhaps the peak’s greatest…
- 9
Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know (2020)
★ 6.6/10Also documentary and mysteryBlack holes stand at the limit of what we can know. To explore that edge of knowledge, the Event Horizon Telescope links observatories across the world to simulate an earth-sized instrument. With this tool the team…
- 10
Secrets of the Neanderthals (2024)
★ 6.6/10Also documentary and mysteryThis documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record tells us about their lives and disappearance.
- 11
Unacknowledged (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also documentary and mysteryDr. Steven Greer presents brand new top-secret evidence supporting extraterrestrial contact, including witness testimony, classified documents, and UFO footage, while also exploring the consequences of ruthlessly…
- 12
Les Invisibles (2012)
★ 6.8/10Also romance and documentarySeveral elderly homosexual men and women speak frankly about their pioneering lives, their fearless decision to live openly in France at a time when society rejected them.
- 13
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014)
★ 6.4/10Also documentary and mysteryDarwin meets Hitchcock in this documentary. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a parable about the search for paradise, set in the brutal yet alluring landscape of the Galapagos Islands, which…
- 14
Derren Brown: Miracle (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also documentary and mysteryIllusionist Derren Brown reinvents the concept of "faith healing" through a series of stunts that debunk the confines of fear, pain and disbelief.
- 15
Derren Brown: Sacrifice (2018)
★ 7.2/10Also documentary and mysteryIllusionist Derren Brown concocts a psychological experiment in which he tries to manipulate an ordinary person into taking a bullet for a stranger.
- 16
Skin. Like. Sun. (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and documentaryReal-life young couple Wim and Floor spend an afternoon in the sunwashed rooms of a crumbling home in Belgium. In a unique twist, this artistic erotic documentary is edited in nearly real-time. In the slowness, we get…
- 17
Serial Killer, Autopsy of a Fascination (2023)
★ 7.5/10Also documentaryAn uneasy interest alive and kicking : directors Céline Chassé and Paul Sanfourche question works of fiction to find out to what extent they can be inspired by a true criminals.
- 18
Tiptoes (2002)
★ 3.9/10Also romanceA man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.
- 19
For Love or Money (1993)
★ 6.2/10Also romanceNew York concierge Doug Ireland wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island, N.Y., but he needs an investor. With a few weeks left before his option on the site runs out, Doug agrees…
- 20
Love in the Time of Corona (2021)
★ 2.5/10Also documentaryA video essay by Mark Rappaport, which spans René Magritte and Michelangelo to Bonnie & Clyde. Let’s mask up to rob a bank! But make sure that you are home before the curfew.