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Movies Like The Women Who Run Hollywood

If you liked The Women Who Run Hollywood (2016), a documentary movie directed by Clara Kuperberg and Julia Kuperberg, 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. 1Varda by Agnès

    Varda by Agnès (2019)

    ★ 7.8/10Also documentary

    An unpredictable documentary from a fascinating storyteller, Agnès Varda’s last film sheds light on her experience as a director, bringing a personal insight to what she calls "cine-writing," traveling from Rue…

  2. 2Daguerréotypes

    Daguerréotypes (1978)

    ★ 7.3/10Also documentary

    An intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue Daguerre in Paris, a picturesque street that has been the filmmaker’s home for more than 50 years.

  3. 3Cameraperson

    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…

  4. 4In the Realms of the Unreal

    In the Realms of the Unreal (2004)

    ★ 7.2/10Also documentary

    In the Realms of the Unreal is a documentary about the reclusive Chicago-based artist Henry Darger. Henry Darger was so reclusive that when he died his neighbors were surprised to find a 15,145-page manuscript along…

  5. 5Love, Marilyn

    Love, Marilyn (2013)

    ★ 6.5/10Also documentary

    Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote estates who have contributed more material, each of the actresses…

  6. 6Uncle Yanco

    Uncle Yanco (1967)

    ★ 7.2/10Also documentary

    While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda, tipped by her friend Tom Luddy, gets to know a relative she had never heard of before, Jean Varda, nicknamed "Yanco". This…

  7. 7Heart 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.

  8. 8The Cheshire Murders

    The Cheshire Murders (2013)

    ★ 6.5/10Also documentary

    In the early-morning hours of July 23, 2007, in Cheshire, Conn., ex-convicts Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky broke into the family home of William Petit, his wife, Jennifer, and their daughters, Michaela, 11, and…

  9. 9She's Beautiful When She's Angry

    She's Beautiful When She's Angry (2014)

    ★ 7.4/10Also documentary

    A documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women's movement from 1966 to 1971.

  10. 10Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

    Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2013)

    ★ 6.9/10Also documentary

    An impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his renditions of American folk songs.

  11. 11Corman's World

    Corman's World (2011)

    ★ 7/10Also documentary

    A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious low-budget producer and director in the US film industry, a pioneer of independent filmmaking and discoverer of new…

  12. 12Making 'The Shining'

    Making 'The Shining' (1980)

    ★ 7.1/10Also documentary

    Directed and edited by Stanley Kubrick's daughter Vivian Kubrick, this film offers a look behind the scenes during the making of The Shining.

  13. 13Love, Gilda

    Love, Gilda (2018)

    ★ 7.2/10Also documentary

    Diaries, audiotapes, videotapes and testimonials from friends and colleagues offer insight into the life and career of Gilda Radner -- the beloved comic and actress who became an icon on Saturday Night Live.

  14. 14I Am Ali

    I Am Ali (2014)

    ★ 6.7/10Also documentary

    Unprecedented access to Muhammad Ali's personal archive of "audio journals" as well as interviews and testimonials from his inner circle of family and friends are used to tell the legend's life story.

  15. 15Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

    Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10Also documentary

    An intimate portrait of Hollywood royalty featuring Debbie Reynolds, Todd Fisher, and Carrie Fisher.

  16. 16Maidentrip

    Maidentrip (2014)

    ★ 7.1/10Also documentary

    14-year-old Laura Dekker sets out on a two-year voyage in pursuit of her dream to become the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone.

  17. 17The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

    The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004)

    ★ 7/10Also documentary

    Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.

  18. 18Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

    Feminists: What Were They Thinking? (2018)

    ★ 7.5/10Also documentary

    In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. This documentary revisits those photos, those women and those times…

  19. 19As 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.

  20. 20Black Panthers

    Black Panthers (1968)

    ★ 7.2/10Also documentary

    A film shot during the summer of 1968 in Oakland, California around the meetings organised by the Black Panthers Party to free Huey Newton, one of their leaders, and to turn his trial into a political debate. They…

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