20 movies like Man on Wire, ordered by similarity : Burden(2016), The Brandon Teena Story(1998), Shirkers(2018), Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang(2016), Double Dare(2003), Hera Pheri(1975), Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film(2006), Crumb(1994), American Movie(1999), The Gleaners and I(2000), God Grew Tired of Us(2006), Beware the Slenderman(2016) ...
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".
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.
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.
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.
7.3/10
Documentary
USA
2016
76 Minutes
Ian Buruma Guo-Qiang Cai Wen-You Cai Jeffrey Deitch Phil Grucci Thomas Krens
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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.
Documentary
2003
81 Minutes
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6.8/10
Crime, Comedy, Drama, Action
India
1975
164 Minutes
Amitabh Bachchan Saira Banu Kimi Katkar Vinod Khanna Sulakshana Pandit Deepa Sahi Shilpa Shirodkar
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Two friends Ajay and Vijay gets separated from each other when they discover secrets about their past in their own ways.
Documentary
2006
240 Minutes
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Rare archival film footage and interviews illustrate filmmaker Ric Burns' tribute to art-world icon Andy Warhol.
8.0/10
Documentary
USA
1994
119 Minutes
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An intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.
7.0/10
Documentary
USA
1999
107 Minutes
Mark Borchardt Tom Schimmels Monica Borchardt Alex Borchardt Chris Borchardt Ken Keen Mike Schank Matt Weisman Bill Borchardt Cliff Borchardt Tom Beach
filmmaker blue-collar worker friend mother uncle amusing charming offbeat suburbia wisconsin blue collar movie making ambition aspirations disillusionment quest underdog 1990s
Four teenage boys enter a pact to lose their virginity by prom night.
7.7/10
Documentary
France
2000
82 Minutes
Agnès Varda Francois Wertheimer
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Varda films and interviews gleaners in France in all forms, from those picking fields after the harvest to those scouring the dumpsters of Paris.
7.9/10
Documentary
USA
2006
86 Minutes
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Four boys from Sudan embark on a journey to America after years of wandering Sub-Saharan Africa in search of safety.
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.
7.9/10
Documentary
USA
1998
93 Minutes
Robert De Niro Lenny Bruce
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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 »
7.6/10
Documentary
UK
2020
70 Minutes
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Blind climber Jesse Dufton's ascent of the Old Man of Hoy.
Documentary
2017
99 Minutes
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The life of Frank Serpico, the former NYPD officer and whistle blower who exposed rampant corruption in the department in the '60s and '70s. The reclusive Serpico talks about his life, from childhood through retirement.
7.5/10
Documentary
USA
1977
175 Minutes
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On the one hand, you have the Panamians, but Frederick Wiseman shows them as the Americans see them: from a distance. They are poor and of no particular interest to them even if Panama is ... See full summary »
Romance
2013
102 Minutes
Daniel Radcliffe Zoe Kazan Megan Park Adam Driver Mackenzie Davis Jemima Rooper Rafe Spall Meghan Heffern Jonathan Cherry Oona Chaplin
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A medical-school dropout (Daniel Radcliffe) tries to hide his attraction to his new friend (Zoe Kazan), a bubbly artist who already has a boyfriend.
6.4/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2001
94 Minutes
Jon Favreau Vince Vaughn Sean Combs Famke Janssen Faizon Love David O'Hara Vincent Pastore Peter Falk
boxer friend girlfriend crime boss criminal amusing tense new york city los angeles restaurant friendship mob dangerous assignment drugs failed romance underdog quest 2000s
Two aspiring boxers, lifelong friends, get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group.
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.
7.1/10
Documentary
USA
2019
86 Minutes
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A look at the people involved with various political campaigns during the 2018 U.S. congressional election.
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