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Movies that feel like The Mole Agent (2020)

If you loved The Mole Agent, the closest films we have are A Child of My Own (2026), The Truffle Hunters (2020) and Three Identical Strangers (2018). 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads and Dox Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 95% Rotten Tomatoes7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Maite Alberdi

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A Child of My Own
2026 · dir. Maite Alberdi
8.4documentary

The same hand behind both of them: Maite Alberdi

Desperate for a baby and burdened by family and societal expectations, a woman fakes a pregnancy and gets tangled in a crime.

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The Truffle Hunters
2020 · dir. Michael Dweck
🍅 97%7.3documentary

The same documentary instincts

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

Cut from the same documentary cloth

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

Both are documentary through and through

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

Documentary approached the same way

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

The same documentary instincts

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

Cut from the same documentary cloth

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

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Kumaré
2012 · dir. Vikram Gandhi
🍅 60%7.5documentary

The same documentary instincts

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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.

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

Cut from the same documentary cloth

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

The same documentary instincts

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

Both are documentary through and through

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

The same documentary instincts

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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