Movies Like The Reformist
If you liked The Reformist (2019), a documentary movie directed by Marie Skovgaard, 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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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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The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)
★ 6.6/10Also documentaryDocumentary about legendary Paramount producer Robert Evans, based on his famous 1994 autobiography.
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Room 237 (2012)
★ 6.1/10Also documentaryA subjective documentary that explores various theories about hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick's classic film The Shining. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice over, film clips, animation…
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For Sama (2019)
★ 8.2/10Also documentaryA love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all…
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Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. (2018)
★ 7.5/10Also documentaryDrawn from a never before seen cache of personal footage spanning decades, this is an intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan artist and musician who continues to shatter conventions.
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One Child Nation (2019)
★ 7.2/10Also documentaryThrough interviews with both victims and instigators, Nanfu Wang, a first-time mother, breaks open decades of silence on a vast, unprecedented social experiment that shaped — and destroyed — countless lives in China.
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Disclosure (2020)
★ 7.8/10Also documentaryAn investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
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Bobby Robson: More Than a Manager (2018)
★ 7/10Also documentaryThe definitive portrait of one of sport's most inspirational, influential figures - whose legacy lives on far beyond the football field.
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Inside Deep Throat (2005)
★ 6.4/10Also documentaryIn 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel: "Deep Throat," starring Linda Lovelace. This film would surpass the wildest expectation of everyone involved to become one…
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Facing Ali (2009)
★ 7.3/10Also documentaryTen of Muhammad Ali's former rivals pay tribute to the three-time world heavyweight champion.
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Night Will Fall (2014)
★ 7.6/10Also documentaryWhen Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had happened. Making…
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Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off (2022)
★ 7.7/10Also documentaryA wide-ranging, definitive look at Hawk’s life and iconic career, and his relationship with the sport with which he’s been synonymous for decades, featuring unprecedented access, never-before-seen footage, and…
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Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010)
★ 6.2/10Also documentaryAn in-depth look at the rapid rise and dramatic fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer.
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Sour Grapes (2016)
★ 7.3/10Also documentaryControversy erupts when an unassuming young man floods the American wine market with fake vintages valued in the millions, bamboozling the wine world elite, in this humorous and suspenseful tale of an ingenious con on…
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The Fog of War (2003)
★ 7.7/10Also documentaryFormer corporate whiz kid Robert McNamara was the controversial Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, during the height of the Vietnam War. Augmented by archival footage and cabinet…
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One More Time with Feeling (2016)
★ 7.8/10Also documentaryAndrew Dominik's One More Time With Feeling is a remarkable black and white documentary which chronicles the creation of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' album Skeleton Tree. Originally a performance based concept, the film…
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Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also documentary50 years after the legendary fest, Barak Goodman’s electric retelling of Woodstock, from the point of view of those who were on the ground, evokes the freedom, passion, community, and joy the three-day music festival…
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The Shock Doctrine (2009)
★ 7.1/10Also documentaryAn investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance.
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Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021)
★ 7/10Also documentaryAn intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. This unflinching look at Anthony Bourdain reverberates with his presence, in his own voice and in the way he indelibly…
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Style Wars (1984)
★ 7.5/10Also documentaryTony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s.