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Movies that feel like Kumaré (2012)

If you loved Kumaré, the closest films we have are Marwencol (2010), Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) and Nostalgia for the Light (2010). 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Philo, Fandor Amazon Channel and Cineverse Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 60% Rotten Tomatoes7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Vikram Gandhi

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

The same documentary instincts

The difference: Reviewed even better

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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Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010 · dir. Werner Herzog
🍅 96%7.4documentary

Cut from the same documentary cloth

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.

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

Documentary approached the same way

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

Both are documentary through and through

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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🍅 65%7.2documentary

The same documentary instincts

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

Documentary approached the same way

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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Man on Wire
2008 · dir. James Marsh
🍅 100%7.7documentary

Documentary approached the same way

On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour of performing on the wire, 1,350 feet above the sidewalks of Manhattan, he was arrested. This fun and spellbinding documentary chronicles Philippe Petit's "highest" achievement.

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Tabloid
2011 · dir. Errol Morris
🍅 92%7documentary

Both are documentary through and through

A documentary on a former Miss Wyoming who is charged with abducting and imprisoning a young Mormon Missionary.

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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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We Live in Public
2009 · dir. Ondi Timoner
🍅 80%7.1documentary

Cut from the same documentary cloth

In 1999, Internet entrepreneur Josh Harris recruits dozens of young men and women who agree to live in underground apartments for weeks at a time while their every movement is broadcast online. Soon, Harris and his girlfriend embark on their own subterranean adventure, with cameras streaming live footage of their meals, arguments, bedroom activities, and bathroom habits. This documentary explores the role of technology in our lives, as it charts the fragile nature of dot-com economy.

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

Both are documentary through and through

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

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