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Movies that feel like Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997)
The story of Robert Flanagan, a man who was born with cystic fibrosis and told he wouldn't live past 20, who through a unique odyssey of masochism, art and love found a way to live decades past his expiration date.
If you loved Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist, the closest films we have are Silent Heart (2014), Places in the Heart (1984) and City of Men (2007). All three share Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist's contemplative and melancholy feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Lilting (2014).
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If Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist hit the spot, these will too
Contemplative where it counts, melancholy underneath
Documentary built on stillness, twice over
Melancholy documentary, and it commits to that
Documentary with a pulse of stillness, in both cases
Both sit in the same melancholy register
A 1970s cousin in spirit
Cut from the same documentary cloth
Products of the same few years
A 2010s answer to the same itch
The same documentary instincts
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The best-reviewed films that share Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist’s defining feeling.
