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Movies that feel like Money Heist: The Phenomenon (2020)

If you loved Money Heist: The Phenomenon, the closest films we have are Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991), The Disaster Artist (2017) and Burden of Dreams (1982). 5 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

A documentary on why 'Money Heist' sparked a wave of enthusiasm around the world for a lovable group of thieves and their professor.

7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Luis Alfaro
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If Money Heist: The Phenomenon hit the spot, these will too

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🍅 100%8.1documentary

Both keep coming back to the same thing: behind the scenes

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.

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The Disaster Artist
2017 · dir. James Franco
🍅 90%7.3comedy · drama

Common ground: behind the scenes

The difference: Leans further into comedy

An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.

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Burden of Dreams
1982 · dir. Les Blank
🍅 92%7.9documentary

The same documentary instincts

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.

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The Mole Agent
2020 · dir. Maite Alberdi
🍅 95%7.5documentary

Both are documentary through and through

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

Cut from the same documentary cloth

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

Both working the same documentary territory

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

Documentary in the same key

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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Some Kind of Heaven
2021 · dir. Lance Oppenheim
🍅 93%7.2documentary

Documentary approached the same way

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

Both know what they want from documentary

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 play documentary straight

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

The documentary is handled with the same confidence

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

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Flee
2021 · dir. Jonas Poher Rasmussen
🍅 98%7.9documentary · animation

Documentary of the same temperament

The difference: Played as animation first

Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child refugee from Afghanistan as he grapples with a secret he’s kept hidden for 20 years.

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