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Movies that feel like Honeyland (2019)

If you loved Honeyland, the closest films we have are Baraka (1992), Crumb (1995) and Trekkies (1997). All three share Honeyland's dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads and Night Flight Plus and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ljubomir Stefanovdread

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Baraka
1992 · dir. Ron Fricke
🍅 85%8.5documentary

The same preoccupation in both: social & cultural documentary

The difference: 27 years apart, and the 1990s show

A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.

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Crumb
1995 · dir. Terry Zwigoff
🍅 95%8documentary

Dread-soaked documentary, and it commits to that

This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin', Fritz the Cat, and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix. Through interviews with his mother, two brothers, wife, ex-wife and ex-girlfriends, as well as selections from his vast quantity of graphic art, we are treated to a darkly comic ride through one man's subconscious mind.

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Trekkies
1997 · dir. Roger Nygard
🍅 88%6.9documentary

Documentary built on dread, twice over

Denise Crosby takes a first look at the huge fans of "Star Trek" from around America and how the series has affected and shaped their lives.

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The Act of Killing
2012 · dir. Joshua Oppenheimer
🍅 96%8.2documentary · history

Social & cultural documentary sits at the heart of each

The difference: Leans history where Honeyland does not

In this chilling and groundbreaking documentary, former Indonesian death squad leaders reenact their real-life mass killings in the style of various film genres. As they recreate their past atrocities, the line between reality and performance blurs, exposing the lingering impact of Indonesia's 1965-66 anti-communist purge and the unsettling psychology of its perpetrators.

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Paris Is Burning
1991 · dir. Jennie Livingston
🍅 99%8.2documentary · history

Documentary with a pulse of dread, in both cases

Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, PARIS IS BURNING offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion "houses," from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women — including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza.

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The Conjuring 2
2016 · dir. James Wan
🍅 80%7.3horror

Same era, same wavelength

Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

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Annabelle: Creation
2017 · dir. David F. Sandberg
🍅 71%6.5horror

Products of the same few years

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the doll maker's possessed creation—Annabelle.

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2022 · dir. Ti West
🍅 94%6.5horror

Contemporaries, and it shows

In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.

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Mama
2013 · dir. Andy Muschietti
🍅 63%6.2horror

Both keep circling back to mothers and daughters

Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.

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Faces Places
2017 · dir. Agnès Varda
🍅 99%7.8documentary

Both are documentary through and through

The difference: Not nearly as dread-soaked as Honeyland

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

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Annabelle Comes Home
2019 · dir. Gary Dauberman
🍅 64%5.9horror

Same era, same wavelength

Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her “safely” behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest’s holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target—the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.

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

The same documentary instincts

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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