Movies like American Movie

20 movies like American Movie, ordered by similarity : Man on Wire(2008), That Summer(2017), Divine Trash(1998), Hoop Dreams(1994), Tarnation(2003), Frank and Ollie(1995), Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth(1998), Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang(2016), Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film(2006), Shirkers(2018), Blue Water, White Death(1971), Double Dare(2003) ...

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American Movie

Four teenage boys enter a pact to lose their virginity by prom night.

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Man on Wire

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".

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That Summer

Montauk, East Hampton, New York, 2016. Peter Beard discusses his work as a photographer, artist and diarist before reminiscing about his attempt to make a documentary in the summer of 1972 ... See full summary »

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Divine Trash

The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters. Intercut with a 1972 interview of Waters are clips from his first films and recent interviews with his ... See full summary »

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Hoop Dreams

A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.

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Tarnation

Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette's documentary on growing up with his schizophrenic mother -- a mixture of snapshots, Super-8 film, answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, and more - culled from nineteen years of his life.

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Frank and Ollie

A documentary about two famed Disney animators, Frank and Ollie.

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Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth

Comedian Lenny Bruce struck a subversive chord in an era of change in America. After getting his start as a conventional stand-up comic, Bruce's increasingly iconoclastic act transformed ... See full summary »

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Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang

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.

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Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film

Rare archival film footage and interviews illustrate filmmaker Ric Burns' tribute to art-world icon Andy Warhol.

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Shirkers

A woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago.

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Blue Water, White Death

Documentary focusing on great white sharks.

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Double Dare

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Spellbound

Spellbound follows eight teenagers on their quest to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee.

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The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

Die-hard gamers compete to break world records on classic arcade games.

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Born Into Brothels

Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.

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My Winnipeg

Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in this portrait of film-maker Guy Maddin's home town of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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The Gleaners and I

Varda films and interviews gleaners in France in all forms, from those picking fields after the harvest to those scouring the dumpsters of Paris.

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Pretending I'm a Superman: The Tony Hawk Video Game Story

The story of how skateboarding became a part of the mainstream by focusing on the success of the "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater" video game franchise.

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American: The Bill Hicks Story

Interviews and clever use of still photographs illustrate the life of a talented but often controversial comic who died of cancer at age 32.

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Beware the Slenderman

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.

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