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Movies that feel likeHoneyland (2019)

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.

If you loved Honeyland, the closest films we have are The Mole Agent (2020), The Truffle Hunters (2020) and Some Kind of Heaven (2021). All three share Honeyland's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Dog (2013).

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ljubomir Stefanovcontemplative
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If Honeyland hit the spot, these will too

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The Mole Agent
2020 · dir. Maite Alberdi
🍅 95%★ 7.5documentaryRent or buy

Documentary built on stillness, twice over

When a daughter becomes concerned about her mother's well-being in a retirement home, private investigator Romulo hires Sergio, an 83-year-old man who becomes a new resident—and a mole inside the home, who struggles to balance his assignment with becoming increasingly involved in the lives of several residents.

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The Truffle Hunters
2020 · dir. Michael Dweck
🍅 97%★ 7.3documentary

Contemplative documentary, and it commits to that

In the secret forests of Northern Italy, a dwindling group of joyful old men and their faithful dogs search for the world’s most expensive ingredient, the white Alba truffle. Their stories form a real-life fairy tale that celebrates human passion in a fragile land that seems forgotten in time.

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Some Kind of Heaven
2021 · dir. Lance Oppenheim
🍅 93%★ 7.2documentaryRent or buy

Documentary with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Behind the gates of a palm-tree-lined fantasyland, three residents and one interloper at America's largest retirement community strive to find happiness.

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The Edge of Democracy
2019 · dir. Petra Costa
🍅 97%★ 7.3documentaryNetflix

The same documentary instincts

A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.

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Kumaré
2012 · dir. Vikram Gandhi
🍅 60%★ 7.5documentary

Both play documentary straight

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

A documentary about a man who impersonates a wise Indian Guru and builds a following in Arizona. At the height of his popularity, the Guru Kumaré must reveal his true identity to his disciples and unveil his greatest teaching of all.

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The Overnighters
2014 · dir. Jesse Moss
🍅 97%★ 7.4drama · documentary

Documentary of the same temperament

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Honeyland does

Desperate, broken men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor's decision to help them has extraordinary and unexpected consequences.

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Naqoyqatsi
2002 · dir. Godfrey Reggio
🍅 48%★ 6.4documentary

Both are built on the same subject: nature documentary

A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.

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

Cut from the same documentary cloth

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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Marwencol
2010 · dir. Jeff Malmberg
🍅 98%★ 7.5documentary

Both are documentary through and through

After a vicious attack leaves him brain-damaged and broke, Mark Hogancamp seeks recovery in "Marwencol", a 1/6th scale World War II-era town he creates in his backyard.

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

Documentary approached the same way

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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🍅 65%★ 7.2documentary

Both working the same documentary territory

An urban mystery unfurls as one man pieces together the surreal meaning of hundreds of cryptic tiled messages that have been appearing in city streets across the U.S. and South America.

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The Dog
2013 · dir. François Keraudren
🍅 93%★ 6.7documentary

Documentary in the same key

In 1972, John Wojtowicz attempted to rob a Brooklyn bank to pay for his lover’s sex-change operation. The story was the basis for the film Dog Day Afternoon. The Dog captures John, who shares his story for the first time in his own unique, offensive, hilarious and heartbreaking way. We gain a historic perspective on New York's gay liberation movement, in which Wojtowicz played an active role. In later footage, he remains a subversive force, backed by the unconditional love of his mother Terry, whose wit and charm infuse the film. How and why the bank robbery took place is recounted in gripping detail by Wojtowicz and various eyewitnesses.

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