Movies like Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy (2024)
The best movies like Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy (2024) are The Social Dilemma (2020), The Great Hack (2019) and Get Smart With Money (2022). If Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy hooked you with its documentary, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedCowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014)7.6/10 from 541 votes
- NewestVice Is Broke (2025)Released 2025
The Social Dilemma (2020)
This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Great Hack (2019)
Explore how a data company named Cambridge Analytica came to symbolize the dark side of social media in the wake of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGet Smart With Money (2022)
Financial advisers share their simple tips on spending less and saving more with people looking to take control of their funds and achieve their goals.
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Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion (2024)
Hiding behind the shiny Instagram façade of Brandy Melville, the go-to clothing brand for young women, is a shockingly toxic culture that lies within the global fast fashion industry.
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MoviePass, MovieCrash (2024)
Exploring the company founding and the implosion of the business by outside investors who took over the company, left it bankrupt and under investigation.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFake Famous (2021)
Explores the meaning of fame and influence in the digital age through an innovative social experiment. Following three Los Angeles-based people with relatively small followings, the film explores the attempts made to turn them into famous influencers by purchasing fake followers and bots to “engage” with their social media accounts.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisFood, Inc. (2008)
Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner examines how mammoth corporations have taken over all aspects of the food chain in the United States, from the farms where our food is grown to the chain restaurants and supermarkets where it's sold. Narrated by author and activist Eric Schlosser, the film features interviews with average Americans about their dietary habits, commentary from food experts like Michael Pollan and unsettling footage shot inside large-scale animal processing plants.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Minimalists: Less Is Now (2021)
They've built a movement out of minimalism. Longtime friends Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus share how our lives can be better with less.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe True Cost (2015)
Film from Andrew Morgan. The True Cost is a documentary film exploring the impact of fashion on people and the planet.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisThat Sugar Film (2014)
One man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as 'healthy'. Through this entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDon't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever (2025)
In this documentary, wealthy entrepreneur Bryan Johnson puts his body and fortune on the line to defy aging and extend his life beyond all known limits.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like this(Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies (2015)
Documentary exploring the human tendency to be dishonest. Inspired by the work of social scientist, Dan Ariely, the film interweaves personal stories, expert opinions, behavioral experiments, and archival footage to reveal how and why people lie.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisConsuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2007)
Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products and the family car. Drawing on the insights of health care professionals, children's advocates, and industry insiders, the film focuses on the explosive growth of child marketing in the wake of deregulation, showing how youth marketers have used the latest advances in psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to transform American children into one of the most powerful and profitable consumer demographics in the world. Consuming Kids pushes back against the wholesale commercialization of childhood, raising urgent questions about the ethics of children's marketing and its impact on the health and well-being of kids.
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Owned & Operated (2012)
Owned & Operated is a mosaic of the world through the lens of the internet. Showing our lives as consumers, under the thumbs of privileged individuals and their methods of control. But the world is awakening, and the experience is something outside the normal rules of social interaction, causing excitement in those who are not served by the current system... and fear in those who are pampered by it. This documentary attempts to present these events using the video, audio and written content uploaded to the internet by the collective human consciousness comprised of every individual participant.
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Poverty, Inc. (2015)
Poverty, Inc. explores the hidden side of doing good. From disaster relief to TOMs Shoes, from adoptions to agricultural subsidies, Poverty, Inc. follows the butterfly effect of our most well-intentioned efforts and pulls back the curtain on the poverty industrial complex - the multi-billion dollar market of NGOs, multilateral agencies, and for-profit aid contractors. Are we catalyzing development or are we propagating a system in which the poor stay poor while the rich get hipper?
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Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014)
Follow the shocking, yet humorous, journey of an aspiring environmentalist, as he daringly seeks to find the real solution to the most pressing environmental issues and true path to sustainability.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Emperor's New Clothes (2015)
An uproarious critique of the world financial crisis. Building on actor, comedian, and provocateur Russell Brand’s emergence as an activist following his 2014 book Revolution, where he railed against “corporate tyranny, ecological irresponsibility, and economic inequality".
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Vice Is Broke (2025)
An investigation into the once high-flying digital news outlet that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2023 after boasting a valuation of $5.7 billion in 2017.
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Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos (2020)
Jeff Bezos is not only one of the richest men in the world, he has built a business empire that is without precedent in the history of American capitalism. His power to shape everything from the future of work to the future of commerce to the future of technology is unrivaled. As politicians and regulators around the world start to consider the global impact of Amazon — and how to rein in Bezos’ power — FRONTLINE investigates how he executed a plan to build one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world.
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Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut (2024)
Delve into the digestive system with this lighthearted and informative documentary that demystifies the role gut health plays in our overall well-being.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMinimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things (2015)
How might your life be better with less? The popular simple-living duo The Minimalists examines the many flavors of minimalism by taking the audience inside the lives of minimalists from various walks of life.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWirecard: The Billion Euro Lie (2021)
Wirecard: a beacon of hope for Germany's future industries. A FinTech with a dark mucky past and a grandiose future. A company that was set to take over Deutsche Bank in 2019. Until the marvel collapses as a tissue of lies in June 2020, leaving a black hole of 3.2 billion euros in debt.
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Food, Inc. 2 (2024)
Filmmakers Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser to take a fresh look at our efficient yet vulnerable food system.
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Trainwreck: The Cult of American Apparel (2025)
Featuring tell-all interviews with insiders and former staff, this exposé traces American Apparel's journey from fashion phenomenon to financial flop.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Gig Is Up (2021)
From delivery riders and rideshare drivers to the invisible workers training artificial intelligence, millions of people around the world are caught in a radical transformation of work. Through intimate, deeply personal stories spanning multiple continents, The Gig Is Up reveals the human cost of platform capitalism. Promising freedom and flexibility, companies like Uber, Amazon and Deliveroo have created a system in which algorithms determine who works, what they earn and when they can be fired. As workers confront precarious livelihoods, corporate power and an increasingly uncertain future, they also find ways to resist. A sweeping yet intimate portrait of the people behind the digital economy, the film explores a growing global struggle over the future of work.
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Take Your Pills (2018)
In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a way to do more -- faster and better. But at what cost?
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe World According to Monsanto (2008)
Monsanto is the world leader in genetically modified organisms (GMOs), as well as one of the most controversial corporations in industrial history. This century-old empire has created some of the most toxic products ever sold, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and the herbicide Agent Orange. Based on a painstaking investigation, The World According to Monsanto puts together the pieces of the company’s history, calling on hitherto unpublished documents and numerous first-hand accounts.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisPOM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011)
A documentary about branding, advertising and product placement that is financed and made possible by brands, advertising and product placement.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOwn the Room (2021)
Follows five young star students on their journey to win one of the world’s most prestigious competitions for student entrepreneurs.
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The Secret (2006)
Interviews with leading authors, philosophers and scientists, with an in-depth discussion of the Law of Attraction. The audience is shown how they can learn and use 'The Secret' in their everyday lives.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both documentary
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What are the best movies like Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy?
The closest matches to Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy are The Social Dilemma (2020), The Great Hack (2019) and Get Smart With Money (2022). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy?
People who watched Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy most often go on to The Social Dilemma (2020), The Great Hack (2019) and Get Smart With Money (2022).
What is the highest-rated movie like Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy?
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014), rated 7.6/10 by 541 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy?
Vice Is Broke (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy?
Yes: The Social Dilemma (2020), The Great Hack (2019) and Get Smart With Money (2022).
How are movies similar to Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.