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An enchanting making-of story told through all-new in-depth interviews and cast conversations, inviting fans on a magical first-person journey through one of the most beloved film franchises of all time.

If you loved Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, the closest films we have are Jodorowsky's Dune (2013), Lost in La Mancha (2002) and Honeyland (2019). All three share Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts' contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Some Kind of Heaven (2021).

🍅 93% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Joe Pearlmancontemplative
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Jodorowsky's Dune
2013 · dir. Frank Pavich
🍅 97%★ 8documentary

Both are built on the same subject: cinema history

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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Lost in La Mancha
2002 · dir. Keith Fulton
🍅 94%★ 7.3documentary

The same preoccupation in both: cinema history

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 2000s show

Fulton and Pepe's 2000 documentary captures Terry Gilliam's attempt to get The Man Who Killed Don Quixote off the ground. Back injuries, freakish storms, and more zoom in to sabotage the project.

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

Documentary with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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Money Heist: The Phenomenon
2020 · dir. Luis Alfaro
★ 7.5documentaryNetflix

Documentary built on stillness, twice over

A documentary on why 'Money Heist' sparked a wave of enthusiasm around the world for a lovable group of thieves and their professor.

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The Mole Agent
2020 · dir. Maite Alberdi
🍅 95%★ 7.5documentaryRent or buy

Both lean on stillness more than on documentary

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.

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

Cut from the same documentary cloth

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

Both play documentary straight

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

Documentary of the same temperament

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

The same documentary instincts

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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Tickled
2016 · dir. David Farrier
🍅 94%★ 7.5documentary

Both are documentary through and through

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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Jiro Dreams of Sushi
2011 · dir. David Gelb
🍅 99%★ 7.8documentaryPrime Video

Documentary approached the same way

Revered sushi chef Jiro Ono strives for perfection in his work, while his eldest son, Yoshikazu, has trouble living up to his father's legacy.

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

Both working the same documentary territory

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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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