20 movies like Robinson in Space, ordered by similarity : Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills(1996), Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang(2016), Tales of the Grim Sleeper(2014), Burden(2016), Crumb(1994), Man on Wire(2008), Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey(1994), Shirkers(2018), The Anthropologist(2015), A Brief History of Time(1992), Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten(2007), Makala(2017) ...
7.2/10
Documentary
UK
1997
81 Minutes
narrator friend partner cheeky quirky england english society civilization modernization industrial landscapes investigation road trip quest discovery 1990s
Robinson is commissioned to investigate the unspecified "problem of England." The narrator describes his seven excursions, with the unseen Robinson, around the country. They mainly ... See full summary »
8.3/10
Documentary
USA
1996
150 Minutes
Joe Berlinger Bruce Sinofsky Jessie Misskelly Sr. Jason Baldwin Damien Wayne Echols Christopher Byers Michael Moore Steven Branch Pam Echols Domini Teer
teen boy adult friend father girlfriend judge bleak disheartening tennessee court murder trial satanism false accusations imprisonment mystery discovery 1990s
A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.
7.3/10
Documentary
USA
2016
76 Minutes
Ian Buruma Guo-Qiang Cai Wen-You Cai Jeffrey Deitch Phil Grucci Thomas Krens
chinese man artist family member friend staff member narrator creative engaging confident china art show city mountain street warehouse art ambition determination struggle work
Trace the rise of contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang from childhood in Mao's China to global art world superstar, and join his quest to realize his lifelong obsession: Sky Ladder.
7.0/10
Documentary
UK|USA
2014
105 Minutes
Lonnie David Franklin Jr. Seymour Amster Laverne Peters Margaret Prescod
narrator serial killer attorney friend murder victim chilling dark disturbing bleak creepy shocking los angeles serial murders documentaries interview murder investigation dna evidence racial issues discovery fall
Nick Broomfield digs into the case of the notorious serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper, who terrorized South Central Los Angeles over a span of twenty-five years.
Documentary
2016
88 Minutes
Richard Dewey
artist expert curator critic friend narrator fascinating creative intense museum apartment warehouse office street art gallery art masochism criticism creative process passion
The life of the always provocative artist Chris Burden, whose work consistently challenged ideas about the limits and nature of modern art, from his notorious performances in the 1970s to his later works.
8.0/10
Documentary
USA
1994
119 Minutes
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An intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.
7.7/10
Documentary
UK|USA
2008
90 Minutes
high-wire artist police officer girlfriend friend fascinating suspenseful incredible france new york city skyscraper world trade center daunting task aspirations friendship crime quest underdog 1970s
A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century".
7.4/10
Documentary
USA|UK
1994
83 Minutes
Clara Rockmore Robert Moog Nicolas Slonimsky Paul Shure Henry Solomonoff Suki Bader Lydia Kavina Brian Wilson Todd Rundgren Dr. Samuel Hoffman Ingrid Bergman
inventor musician scientist brian wilson performer fascinating creative quirky shocking new york city russia music the theremin cold war inventions kidnapping discovery quest 1990s
A documentary about the inventor of the first electronic synthesiser instrument and his subsequent life after he was abducted by the KGB as well as a history of his instrument.
7.4/10
Documentary
USA|UK
2018
96 Minutes
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A woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago.
6.0/10
Documentary
Russia|Peru|Kiribati|USA
2015
81 Minutes
Daniel A. Miller
anthropologist mother daughter traveler expert narrator fascinating emotional gripping jungle new york city airplane mountain village boat anthropology climate change travel civilization bonding
THE ANTHROPOLOGIST considers the fate of the planet from the perspective of an American teenager. Over five years, she travels alongside her mother, an anthropologist studying the impact of climate change on indigenous communities.
7.3/10
Documentary
UK|Japan|USA
1992
84 Minutes
Isobel Hawking Janet Humphrey Mary Hawking Basil King Derek Powney Norman Dix Robert Berman Roger Penrose Dennis Sciama John Wheeler Brandon Carter
scientist astronomer professor mother fascinating inspiring quirky cambridge university classroom england universe illness discovery pursuit rise 1990s
A film about the life and work of the cosmologist, Stephen Hawking, who despite his near total paralysis, was one of the great minds of all time.
7.6/10
Documentary
Ireland|UK
2007
125 Minutes
Joe Strummer Steve Jones Mick Jones Brigitte Bardot Bono Steve Buscemi Terry Chimes
musician fan friend gritty engaging england stage music death life joe strummer discovery rise 1990s
As the front man of the Clash from 1977, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before.
7.8/10
Documentary
France
2017
96 Minutes
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Trials tribulation dreams and aspirations of a young farmer earning a living making and selling charcoal in Congo.
Documentary
2016
117 Minutes
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The mythos of a faceless, digital-age bogeyman known as Slenderman was created on the Internet, but his influence was felt in the real world when two 12-year-old girls lured their friend into the woods for a brutal murder.
7.2/10
Documentary
UK|USA
2017
111 Minutes
Emma Rogan
narrator interviewee terrorist journalist loyalist engaging fascinating chilling dark disturbing powerful northern ireland irish society massacre murder investigation documentaries unsolved murder the troubles discovery mystery
An in-depth look at the unsolved 1994 Loughinisland massacre, where six Irishmen were murdered, presumably by a Unionist paramilitary group, while watching the World Cup at the local pub in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland.
Documentary
2007
105 Minutes
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Comedy, Documentary
2016
96 Minutes
Tim Story Ed Helms David Meunier Joey Wells Richardson Jones Magali Amadei
comedian rock star actress friend family member audience member cheeky hilarious creative philadelphia stadium backstage street car dressing room stand-up comedy acting music live show dating
Comic Kevin Hart performs his stand-up routine in front of 50,000 people at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.
7.1/10
Documentary
USA
1998
89 Minutes
Greta Olafsdóttir Kate Bornstein JoAnne Brandon Teena Brandon John Lotter Tom Nissen Lana Tisdel
transgender man ex-girlfriend friend family member murderer police officer dark disheartening emotional nebraska rural community small town courtroom transsexuality secret murder rape brandon teena hate crime discovery
Documentary about a multiple murder in rural Nebraska in 1993.
6.7/10
Documentary, Crime, Drama, History
USA
2008
101 Minutes
Nelson Andreu Raul Diaz Bob Palumbo Al Singleton
drug dealer son convict woman drug addict police officer gripping fascinating dark oakland, calif. prison miami ghetto drug trade crime ring partnership investigation griselda blanco charles cosby temptation
Set in 1991 on the inner-city streets of Oakland, California, cocaine dealer Charles Cosby has his life changed forever when he writes a fan letter to the "Cocaine Godmother" Griselda ... See full summary »
6.0/10
Documentary
USA
2009
88 Minutes
actress actor newlywed friend scientist child quirky passionate united states bowling alley beach playground house restaurant true love filmmaking romance road trip quest love
Charlyne Yi embarks on a quest across America to make a documentary about the one subject she doesn't fully understand: Love.
6.8/10
Documentary
USA
2018
94 Minutes
director woman filmmaker activist executive passionate positive powerful uplifting confident hollywood, calif. women in hollywood sexism investigation show business filmmaker career discovery quest adventure
A documentary about discriminatory hiring practices concerning women directors in Hollywood, and an inspiring conversation with those who have succeeded against all odds.
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