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Movies that feel likeThe Mole Agent (2020)

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.

If you loved The Mole Agent, the closest films we have are The Truffle Hunters (2020), Some Kind of Heaven (2021) and Honeyland (2019). All three share The Mole Agent's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Dog (2013).

🍅 95% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Maite Alberdicontemplative
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The Truffle Hunters
2020 · dir. Michael Dweck
🍅 97%★ 7.3documentary

Contemplative documentary in both cases

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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Some Kind of Heaven
2021 · dir. Lance Oppenheim
🍅 93%★ 7.2documentaryRent or buy

Documentary built on stillness, twice over

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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Honeyland
2019 · dir. Ljubomir Stefanov
🍅 100%★ 8documentary

Contemplative documentary, and it commits to that

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

Both are documentary through and through

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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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The Overnighters
2014 · dir. Jesse Moss
🍅 97%★ 7.4drama · documentary

Documentary approached the same way

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Mole Agent does

Desperate, broken men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor's decision to help them has extraordinary and unexpected consequences.

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

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

The documentary is handled with the same confidence

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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Nostalgia for the Light
2010 · dir. Patricio Guzmán
🍅 100%★ 7.6documentary

Documentary of the same temperament

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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🍅 65%★ 7.2documentary

Documentary in the same key

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.

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The Dog
2013 · dir. François Keraudren
🍅 93%★ 6.7documentary

Both know what they want from documentary

In 1972, John Wojtowicz attempted to rob a Brooklyn bank to pay for his lover’s sex-change operation. The story was the basis for the film Dog Day Afternoon. The Dog captures John, who shares his story for the first time in his own unique, offensive, hilarious and heartbreaking way. We gain a historic perspective on New York's gay liberation movement, in which Wojtowicz played an active role. In later footage, he remains a subversive force, backed by the unconditional love of his mother Terry, whose wit and charm infuse the film. How and why the bank robbery took place is recounted in gripping detail by Wojtowicz and various eyewitnesses.

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Tabloid
2011 · dir. Errol Morris
🍅 92%★ 7documentary

Cut from the same documentary cloth

One of America's top documentary filmmakers turns his attention to the outrageous and nearly unbelievable story of Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming beauty queen who gained a great deal of notoriety after being accused of kidnapping a young Mormon missionary, restraining him in chains and raping him in 1977 England. The unbalanced McKinney is extensively interviewed, particularly about her ambition to write a memoir telling her side of the tale.

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We Live in Public
2009 · dir. Ondi Timoner
🍅 80%★ 7.1documentary

Both play documentary straight

In 1999, Internet entrepreneur Josh Harris recruits dozens of young men and women who agree to live in underground apartments for weeks at a time while their every movement is broadcast online. Soon, Harris and his girlfriend embark on their own subterranean adventure, with cameras streaming live footage of their meals, arguments, bedroom activities, and bathroom habits. This documentary explores the role of technology in our lives, as it charts the fragile nature of dot-com economy.

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