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Movies that feel like Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011)

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.

If you loved Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, the closest films we have are We Live in Public (2009), Marwencol (2010) and The Dog (2013). All three share Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles' contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary (1997).

🍅 65% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗dir. Jon Foycontemplative
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If Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles hit the spot, these will too

We Live in Public poster
We Live in Public
2009 · 🍅 80% · ★ 7.1

Contemplative documentary, and it commits to that

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Marwencol
2010 · 🍅 98% · ★ 7.5

Both lean on stillness more than on documentary

Critics rated this one higher still

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The Dog
2013 · 🍅 93% · ★ 6.7

Documentary built on stillness, twice over

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The Overnighters
2014 · 🍅 97% · ★ 7.4

Documentary in the same key

Leans further into drama

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Kumaré
2012 · 🍅 60% · ★ 7.5

Both know what they want from documentary

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The Truffle Hunters
2020 · 🍅 97% · ★ 7.3

The same documentary instincts

Some Kind of Heaven poster
Some Kind of Heaven
2021 · 🍅 93% · ★ 7.2

Both working the same documentary territory

Overnight poster
Overnight
2003 · 🍅 78% · ★ 7.1

Both play documentary straight

Riding Giants poster
Riding Giants
2004 · 🍅 93% · ★ 7.8

The documentary is handled with the same confidence

Tabloid poster
Tabloid
2011 · 🍅 92% · ★ 7

Documentary approached the same way

Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. poster
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
1999 · 🍅 100% · ★ 7.5

Documentary of the same temperament

Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary poster
Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary
1997 · 🍅 84% · ★ 7.6

Cut from the same documentary cloth

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