Movies Like They're Always Watching You

If you liked They're Always Watching You (2021), a documentary and fantasy movie directed by William Conrad, 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
The Imposter (2012)
★ 7.3/10Also documentary and mystery
In 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…
2
Unacknowledged (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also documentary and mystery
Dr. 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…
3
Derren Brown: Sacrifice (2018)
★ 7.2/10Also documentary and mystery
Illusionist Derren Brown concocts a psychological experiment in which he tries to manipulate an ordinary person into taking a bullet for a stranger.
4
Fermat's Room (2007)
★ 6.6/10Also mystery
Four mathematicians are imprisoned in a shrinking room; with the walls closing in, they must try anything to escape this fatal puzzle.
5
Apocalypsis (2018)
★ 5.6/10Also mystery
Set in a parallel universe entering a black hole, a woman reading the book of Revelation has visions of regeneration during Anthropocene.
6
AREA 51: I Was There (2011)
Also documentary
Step inside one of the most notorious places on the planet in Area 51: I Was There. Made famous by The X Files and generations of conspiracy theorists, only a select few have been to Area 51, and even fewer have spoken…
7
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive (2017)
★ 7.7/10Also documentary
How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.
8
Spuria (2023)
★ 9/10Also mystery
A young man with an ordinary life begins to be the center of attention of a third party. The day to day of the young man begins to turn sinister and strange; his life begins to be endangered in a particular way and he…
9
Solver (2017)
★ 5/10Also mystery
Luke, a young professional in New York City, learns his grandfather has disappeared under strange circumstances and is presumed dead. When he arrives at his grandfather's remote cabin, he finds a series of clues and…
10
Clue (1985)
★ 7.2/10Also mystery
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and…
11
O. Unilateralis (2016)
★ 4/10Also mystery
In the summer of 2012, footage was captured by three travelers on a road trip, who unwittingly find themselves in the middle of a massive global conspiracy.
12
Aura (2014)
★ 3.3/10Also fantasy
Four kids, Tokyo, Pete, Adam and Esther wake up in their stranded car in an abandoned field only to find that the Sun did not rise. What's more, they discover that a strange, 30 foot diameter, almost invisible, bionic…
13
Meghnadbodh Rohoshyo (2017)
★ 5.5/10Also mystery
A professor mysteriously vanishes, leaving behind a host of suspects, a shadowy history and a clue: the anonymous birthday gift of a Bengali classic.
14
Fire in the Sky (1993)
★ 6.7/10Also mystery
After clearing brush for the government, a group of men return to town claiming their friend was abducted. Despite no apparent motive or evidence of foul play, no-one believes their story and his disappearance is…
15
The Assassination of Western Civilization (2022)
Also mystery
A tabloid writer has evidence of the assassination of a US Senator. A visit from a scrupulous FBI agent suggests he may know more than he's admitting about the assassination and the key may reside in the recesses of…
16
Los cómplices del infierno (1995)
★ 3.8/10Also mystery
Sandra and Deborah are two women trying to escape from a tragic recent event. They go for a vacation on a beach house but are then followed by an evil cult.
17
Hayseed (2023)
★ 5.5/10Also mystery
Following the discovery of a reverend’s body, a retired detective uncovers corruption and murder in a Rust Belt community.
18
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
★ 7.6/10Also documentary
A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.
19
The Lonesome Room (2021)
Also mystery
A fairly prolific young writer struggling for her next story is drugged and wakes up tied to a chair in a room ripped right out of one of her more horrifying books, with no foreseeable way out.
20
Dream Lover (1994)
★ 6.8/10Also mystery
Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman…