
Movies that feel likeThe Look of Silence (2014)
If you loved The Look of Silence, the closest films we have are The Act of Killing (2012), I'm Still Here (2024) and Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997). All three share The Look of Silence's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Places in the Heart (1984).
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If The Look of Silence hit the spot, these will too

Both are Joshua Oppenheimer's work, and they rhyme
The difference: Trades the melancholy of The Look of Silence for an angle of its own

Epic where it counts, contemplative underneath
The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Look of Silence does

Melancholy documentary, and it commits to that


The same preoccupation in both: grief

One thread runs through both: biography


Epic history in both cases

Documentary with a pulse of melancholy, in both cases

Both lean on stillness more than on history
The difference: 30 years apart, and the 1980s show

Both lean on melancholy more than on documentary

Both work the same scale
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics
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