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Movies Like Third Act

If you liked Third Act (2025), a documentary movie directed by Tadashi Nakamura, 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. 1STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie

    STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023)

    ★ 7.8/10Also documentary

    A short kid from a Canadian army base becomes the international pop culture darling of the 1980s—only to find the course of his life altered by a stunning diagnosis. What happens when an incurable optimist confronts an…

  2. 2Cameraperson

    Cameraperson (2016)

    ★ 6.7/10Also documentary

    As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What…

  3. 3Visions of Light

    Visions of Light (1992)

    ★ 7/10Also documentary

    Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips from 100 films, from Birth of a Nation to Do the Right Thing. Themes…

  4. 4Who Are You, Charlie Brown?

    Who Are You, Charlie Brown? (2021)

    ★ 6.9/10Also documentary

    Lupita Nyong'o narrates a documentary about Peanuts and its creator, Charles M. Schulz. Famous fans—including Drew Barrymore, Kevin Smith, and Al Roker—share its influence on them, and a new animated story finds…

  5. 5Val

    Val (2021)

    ★ 7.2/10Also documentary

    For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood's most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors, has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm…

  6. 6Mifune: The Last Samurai

    Mifune: The Last Samurai (2016)

    ★ 7/10Also documentary

    An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.

  7. 7As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)

    ★ 7.8/10Also documentary

    A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.

  8. 8Dick Johnson Is Dead

    Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)

    ★ 7.1/10Also documentary

    With 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…

  9. 9Fuck

    Fuck (2006)

    ★ 6.4/10Also documentary

    A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use.

  10. 10Nothing Like a Dame

    Nothing Like a Dame (2018)

    ★ 6.8/10Also documentary

    BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they reminisce over a long summer weekend…

  11. 11They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

    They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018)

    ★ 7.1/10Also documentary

    As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind.

  12. 12Drew: The Man Behind the Poster

    Drew: The Man Behind the Poster (2013)

    ★ 7/10Also documentary

    A documentary on legendary movie-poster artist Drew Struzan.

  13. 13Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

    Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024)

    ★ 8.1/10Also documentary

    Christopher Reeve portrayed the Man of Steel in four Superman films and played dozens of other roles that displayed his talent and range as an actor, before being injured in a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995…

  14. 14Heart of a Dog

    Heart of a Dog (2015)

    ★ 6.5/10Also documentary

    Musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother and her beloved dog.

  15. 15Sherman's March

    Sherman's March (1986)

    ★ 6.3/10Also documentary

    Documentarian Ross McElwee originally set out to make a travelogue of sorts tracing General William T. Sherman's infamous scorched-earth march through the Confederacy in the latter stages of the Civil War. Instead…

  16. 16Naqoyqatsi

    Naqoyqatsi (2002)

    ★ 6.2/10Also documentary

    A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.

  17. 17The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button

    The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button (2009)

    ★ 7/10Also documentary

    A documentary about the making of David Fincher's 2008 film THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON. Virtually every element in the evolution of the Fincher's film is documented here, from the project's attachment to…

  18. 18Side by Side

    Side by Side (2012)

    ★ 7.3/10Also documentary

    Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium…

  19. 19Overnight

    Overnight (2003)

    ★ 6.4/10Also documentary

    Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches story as Troy Duffy, a Boston-bred bartender, sells his first screenplay…

  20. 20All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)

    ★ 7.1/10Also documentary

    The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family…

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