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Movies that feel like Faces Places (2017)

If you loved Faces Places, the closest films we have are Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008), The Gleaners and I (2000) and Gran Torino (2008). 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

🍅 99% Rotten Tomatoes7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Agnès Vardawarm

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Anvil! The Story of Anvil
2008 · dir. Sacha Gervasi
🍅 98%7.9documentary · music

Both built around friendship

The difference: Leans music where Faces Places does not

At 14, best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, hailed as the "demi-gods of Canadian metal" influenced a musical generation that includes Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax. Following a calamitous European tour, Lips and Robb, now in their fifties, set off to record their 13th album in one last attempt to fulfill their boyhood dreams.

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The Gleaners and I
2000 · dir. Agnès Varda
🍅 93%7.7documentary

Both are Agnès Varda films, and they rhyme

The difference: Missing the warmth of Faces Places

Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off, whether out of necessity or activism.

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Gran Torino
2008 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 81%8.1drama

Warm documentary, and it commits to that

The difference: Plays it as drama more than Faces Places does

Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.

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Wendy and Lucy
2008 · dir. Kelly Reichardt
🍅 85%7.1drama

Both keep circling back to friendship

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.

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Three Identical Strangers
2018 · dir. Tim Wardle
🍅 96%7.6documentary

Documentary approached the same way

New York, 1980. Three complete strangers accidentally discover that they're identical triplets, separated at birth. The 19-year-olds' joyous reunion catapults them to international fame, but also unlocks an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes beyond their own lives – and could transform our understanding of human nature forever.

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Tickled
2016 · dir. David Farrier
🍅 94%7.5documentary

The same documentary instincts

Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn’t stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction.

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Honeyland
2019 · dir. Ljubomir Stefanov
🍅 100%8documentary

Both are documentary through and through

When nomadic beekeepers break Honeyland’s basic rule (take half of the honey, but leave half to the bees), the last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and restore natural balance.

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Jodorowsky's Dune
2013 · dir. Frank Pavich
🍅 97%8documentary

Cut from the same documentary cloth

In 1974, Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on the quixotic project of adapting Frank Herbert's influential novel Dune (1969) for the big screen. After investing two years, and millions of dollars, the gigantic project ended in failure; but the artists Jodorowsky brought together to carry it out continued to work together, and ended up laying the foundations for modern science fiction cinema.

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Jiro Dreams of Sushi
2011 · dir. David Gelb
🍅 99%7.8documentary

The same documentary instincts

Revered sushi chef Jiro Ono strives for perfection in his work, while his eldest son, Yoshikazu, has trouble living up to his father's legacy.

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Good Will Hunting
1997 · dir. Gus Van Sant
🍅 97%8.4drama

Warm documentary in both cases

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 1990s show

Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who is failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him.

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Girl, Interrupted
1999 · dir. James Mangold
🍅 53%7.3drama

Documentary with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

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Nostalgia for the Light
2010 · dir. Patricio Guzmán
🍅 100%7.6documentary

The same documentary instincts

In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime.

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