20 movies like Beware the Slenderman, ordered by similarity : Tales of the Grim Sleeper(2014), Shirkers(2018), Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart(2014), Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills(1996), Billie(2019), Makala(2017), The Amazing Johnathan Documentary(2019), No Stone Unturned(2017), Catfish(2010), Man on Wire(2008), Atomic Homefront(2017), Which Way Home(2009) ...
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.
Documentary
UK|USA
2014
105 Minutes
Lonnie David Franklin Jr. Seymour Amster Laverne Peters Margaret Prescod
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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
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.
Documentary
USA
2014
98 Minutes
Nicole Kidman Joaquin Phoenix Helen Hunt Matt Dillon Joyce Maynard Stanley M. Brooks Joyce Chopra
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A small-town murder in New England became one of the highest-profile cases of the twentieth century. As the first fully televised court case, the Pamela Smart trial rattled the ... See full summary »
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
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A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.
Documentary, Music
USA
2019
96 Minutes
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A group of wealthy boys in Los Angeles during the early 1980s establish a 'get-rich-quick' scam that turns deadly.
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
USA
2019
91 Minutes
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What begins as a documentary following the final tour of a dying magician - "The Amazing Johnathan" - becomes an unexpected and increasingly bizarre journey as the filmmaker struggles to separate truth from illusion.
Documentary
UK|USA
2017
111 Minutes
Emma Rogan
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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, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2010
88 Minutes
Ariel Schulman Wendy Whelan Tiler Peck Drew Jacoby Blake Alexandros
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Young filmmakers document their colleague's budding online friendship with a young woman and her family which leads to an unexpected series of discoveries.
Documentary
UK|USA
2008
90 Minutes
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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
USA
2017
100 Minutes
Dawn Chapman Douglas Clemens Robbin Ellison Dailey Kay Drey R. William Field Lois Gibbs
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A terrifying look at the corruption that's destroying our nation and our planet. This should shake every American citizen. Citizens of an American city fight back against corruption and greed and try to save their own lives.
Documentary
USA
2009
83 Minutes
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"Which Way Home" is a feature documentary film that follows unaccompanied child migrants, on their journey through Mexico, as they try to reach the United States. We follow children like ... See full summary »
Documentary
2017
89 Minutes
Geeta Gandbhir Michelle Brettin Rachel Dissell Mariska Hargitay Helena Lazaro Kym Worthy Cy Vance
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An investigation into the way sexual assault cases are handled by police departments across the United States.
Mystery & Thriller, Documentary, Comedy
USA
2002
97 Minutes
Paige Kimble Jonathan Knisely Balu Natarajan Julianne Ruth
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Spellbound follows eight teenagers on their quest to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee.
Documentary
USA
2016
85 Minutes
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A documentary about three students determined to graduate from their high school in Indianapolis, despite the fact that the institution has one of the lowest graduation rates in the country.
Documentary
USA
2014
106 Minutes
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A documentary about the discovery of the largest Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil ever found.
Documentary
USA
1998
89 Minutes
Greta Olafsdóttir Kate Bornstein JoAnne Brandon Teena Brandon John Lotter Tom Nissen Lana Tisdel
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Documentary about a multiple murder in rural Nebraska in 1993.
Documentary
USA
2009
86 Minutes
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Great Directors, directed by Angela Ismailos, features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, ... See full summary »
Documentary
USA
1987
75 Minutes
Andy Minsker Gerry Heller Morgan Young
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A documentary, photographed in black-and-white, with a hip jazz soundtrack, looks at the boys and coach of a small but accomplished boxing club near Portland, Oregon. The film focuses on ... See full summary »
Documentary, Biography
USA
2015
89 Minutes
Mukunda Angulo Narayana Angulo Bhagavan Angulo Govinda Angulo
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Confined in an apartment from a New York housing project, the six Angulo brothers learned everything they know about the world through watching films and spend their time reenacting their favorite movies with intricate homemade costumes.