20 movies like The Eyes of Tammy Faye, ordered by similarity : Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer(1992), Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room(2005), One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich(2000), Nico-Icon(1995), Superstar(1990), Wild Man Blues(1997), Time Indefinite(1993), November Days(1992), Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin' With the Godmother(2008), McLibel(2005), Easy Riders, Raging Bulls(2003), Shirkers(2018) ...
Documentary
UK|USA
2000
79 Minutes
televangelist preacher husband filmmaker fascinating outlandish north carolina california christianity television personalities fame evangelism scandal fall wretched excess 1990s
A documentary look, mostly through the eyes of Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, at her rise and fall as a popular televangelist with husband Jim Bakker. Traces their rise: her teen marriage to ... See full summary »
Documentary
1992
87 Minutes
serial killer attorney prostitute christian inmate husband shocking emotional fascinating sad court prison farm truck stop living room van aileen wuornos murder case prostitution trial
Nick Broomfield explores the media circus surrounding the case of America's first textbook female serial killer.
Documentary
USA
2005
113 Minutes
businessperson boss trader creepy disturbing intense new york city california corruption scandal money fall wretched excess mystery 1990s
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
Documentary
2000
55 Minutes
Arseni Tarkovsky Alexandra Stewart Larisa Tarkovskaya Sven Nykvist Chris Marker Valérie Mairesse Michal Leszczylowski Marina Vlady
filmmaker son actress wife editor cinematographer fascinating dreamy profound touching france film set bedroom andrei tarkovsky creative process father/son relationship reunion cancer filmmaking discovery
Documentary
1995
70 Minutes
Christian Aaron Boulogne Tina Aumont Edith Boulogne Jackson Browne John Cale Danny Fields Jonas Mekas Helma Wolff
musician artist filmmaker actress model brooding creative germany new york city nico fame depression drug addiction performance wretched excess transformation 1990s
Filmmaker Susan Ofteringer profiles German model, cult figure and heroin addict Nico, nee Christa Paffgen.
Documentary
1990
85 Minutes
actor actress artist painter model engaging fascinating pittsburgh new york city warehouse artist's studio andy warhol pop art fame new york city art world rise fall wretched excess transformation
Filmmaker Chuck Workman profiles pop artist Andy Warhol through interviews with friends and colleagues.
Documentary, Music
USA
1997
105 Minutes
Woody Allen Letty Aronson Dan Barrett Simon Wettenhall John Gill Greg Cohen Cynthia Sayer Eddy Davis John Doumanian Martin Konigsburg Nettie Konigsburg
filmmaker musician wife manager sister lighthearted endearing witty venice, italy paris concert hall hotel turin, italy madrid woody allen jazz touring husband/wife relationship fame adventure
Academy Award-winner Barbara Kopple directs this documentary portrait of Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Woody Allen, seen traveling with friends and fellow musicians during their New... See full summary »
Documentary
USA
1993
117 Minutes
filmmaker widow father housekeeper wife patient somber inspiring north carolina mexico death cancer pregnancy breakup arson christianity growing up transformation 1990s
Forty year old documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee has a penchant for filming everything around him. Following the announcement of his impending marriage to his film-making partner Marilyn ... See full summary »
Documentary
Germany|UK
1992
129 Minutes
politician bureaucrat communist documentarian fascinating intense powerful east germany communism government iron curtain corruption bureaucracy politics wretched excess quest fall 1990s
Marcel Ophuls interviews various important Eastern German figures for their thoughts on the reunification of Germany and the fall of Communism.
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 »
Documentary
UK
2005
84 Minutes
Dave Morris Bruce Alexander T. Colin Campbell Oliver Ford Davies Richard Hope
environmentalist lawyer fiery fascinating england courtroom london mclibel lawsuit big business environmental consciousness public relations censorship rivalry quest wretched excess underdog 1990s
McLibel is the story of two ordinary people who humiliated McDonald's in the biggest corporate PR disaster in history.
Documentary
UK|Canada
2003
119 Minutes
filmmaker film critic film studio executive film editor actor actress confident cool fascinating engaging hollywood, calif. studio new york city film set hollywood cinema history counterculture youth influence changing times
A look at 1970s Hollywood when it was known as New Hollywood, and the director was the star of the movie.
Documentary
USA|UK
2018
96 Minutes
teen girl mentor friend filmmaker novelist mysterious man confident creative fascinating engaging emotional intricate singapore united states los angeles street basement car filmmaking mentorship
A woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago.
Documentary, Crime, Drama
USA
2006
103 Minutes
Nancy Sloan Roger Mahony John Manly
filmmaker pedophile priest victim mother father creepy dark california family home church child molestation scandal dark secrets pursuit revenge 2000s
Documentary about Father Oliver O'Grady, a Catholic priest who was relocated to various parishes around the United States during the 1970s in an attempt by the Catholic Church to cover up his rape of dozens of children.
Documentary
2006
240 Minutes
filmmaker art critic artist art dealer brother fascinating positive offbeat new york city film set andy warhol celebrity film art quest rise 1970s
Rare archival film footage and interviews illustrate filmmaker Ric Burns' tribute to art-world icon Andy Warhol.
Documentary
UK
2002
86 Minutes
John-Paul Davidson
documentarian singer actor actress director animator fascinating winsome crafty studio california animation filmmaking songwriting creative process transformation discovery 1990s
Sting's wife Trudie Styler documents the turbulent bureaucracy both Sting and the filmmakers went through in order to complete The Emperor's New Groove (2000), a Disney film that underwent extensive storyline changes from start to finish.
Documentary
USA
1995
97 Minutes
actress actor director emotional somber hollywood, calif. paris fame acting addiction rise fall wretched excess 1970s
Mark Rappaport's creative bio-pic about actress Jean Seberg is presented in a first-person, autobiographical format (with Seberg played by Mary Beth Hurt). He seamlessly interweaves cinema,... See full summary »
Documentary, Biography
USA
2003
107 Minutes
David Friedman Jesse Friedman
father son brother mother victim police officer creepy emotional family home great neck, n.y. suburbia prison child molestation family wretched excess fall mystery 2000s
Documentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes.
Documentary, Biography
USA
2018
133 Minutes
actress celebrity tycoon fascinating engaging creative confident cool amusing spirited intense inspiring united states life story life's work fame scandal celebrity discovery transformation
A look at the life, work, activism and controversies of actress and fitness tycoon, Jane Fonda.
Documentary
Denmark|USA
2019
101 Minutes
dictator wife president confident disheartening engaging fascinating somber quirky philippines politics dictatorship philippines political corruption political repression wretched excess rise 1990s
An extraordinary look into the political career of Imelda Marcos, this documentary tells a cautionary tale of a powerful leader whose questionable sense of reality divided the Philippines.
Documentary
USA
2003
169 Minutes
film critic narrator filmmaker fascinating mellow creative southern california los angeles filmmaking los angeles history film industry city life culture discovery 2000s
A documentary on how Los Angeles has been used and depicted in the movies.