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Movies that feel likeThe Edge of Democracy (2019)

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.

If you loved The Edge of Democracy, the closest films we have are The Dog (2013), We Live in Public (2009) and Treeless Mountain (2009). All three share The Edge of Democracy's 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).

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Petra Costacontemplative
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The Dog
2013 · dir. François Keraudren
🍅 93%★ 6.7documentary

Documentary with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

Both lean on stillness more than on documentary

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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Treeless Mountain
2009 · dir. So Yong Kim
🍅 86%★ 7drama

Contemplative documentary, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Edge of Democracy does

A Korean woman leaves her two young daughters with her sister-in-law to search for their estranged father.

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

Documentary of the same temperament

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

Both play documentary straight

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

Both working the same documentary territory

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

Both know what they want from documentary

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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The Gleaners and I
2000 · dir. Agnès Varda
🍅 93%★ 7.7documentary

Documentary in the same key

Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off, whether out of necessity or activism.

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

Cut from the same documentary cloth

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

The documentary is handled with the same confidence

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

The same documentary instincts

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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🍅 65%★ 7.2documentary

Both are documentary through and through

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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