Movies like comment faire disparaître un corps. (2026)

Who Are You, Charlie Brown? (2021)

Lupita Nyong'o narrates a documentary about Peanuts and its creator, Charles M. Schulz. Famous fans—including Drew Barrymore, Kevin Smith, and Al Roker—share its influence on them, and a new animated story finds Charlie Brown on a quest.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both documentary & animation

Tower (2016)

Combining archival footage with rotoscopic animation, Tower reveals the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors of America's first mass school shooting, when the worst in one man brought out the best in so many others.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & documentary

Piece by Piece (2024)

A unique cinematic experience that invites audiences on a vibrant journey through the life of cultural icon Pharrell Williams. Told through the lens of LEGO® animation, turn up the volume on your imagination and witness the evolution of one of music's most innovative minds.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & documentary

Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis (2021)

Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis, is a documentary short featuring animation that focuses on the story of a top secret POW camp that was classified for over 5 decades. In the midst of WWII, a group of young Jewish refugees are assigned to guard a top secret POW camp near Washington D.C. The Jewish soldiers soon discover that their prisoners are no other than Hitler's top scientists - What starts out as an intelligence mission to gather information from the Nazis, soon gets a shocking twist when the Jewish soldiers are tasked with a very different mission altogether. A mission that would question their moral values - exposing a dark secret from America's past.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both documentary & animation

Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? (2013)

A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn animation.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both documentary & animation

Another Day of Life (2018)

In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the Angola's civil war. There, he witnessed once again the dirty reality of war and discovered a sense of helplessness previously unknown to him. Angola changed him forever: it was a reporter who left Poland, but it was a writer who returned…

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & documentary

Grand Theft Hamlet (2024)

Two unemployed friends have a fresh idea: they want to stage Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' in Grand Theft Auto. But even in a virtual world, reality intrudes in a wild and trippy film shot entirely inside the ultra-violent video game.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & documentary

Welcome to Leith (2015)

In September 2012, the tiny prairie town of Leith, North Dakota, sees its population of 24 grow by one. As the new resident's behavior becomes more threatening, tensions soar, and the residents desperately look for ways to expel their unwanted neighbor.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & documentary

Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes (2001)

The historical saga of American superheroes. Born in the period between the Great Depression and the World War II to combat the hobgoblins of the modern world, these mutant human beings with superhuman powers colonized the funny papers, radio dramas, television and films, to become a truly national industry in the United States: they gave expression to the fears and obsessions of the twentieth century and bolstered American ideals.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both documentary & animation

So Help Me God (2018)

Some 20 years ago, two sex workers were murdered in an upper-class Brussels neighborhood. Celebrated Belgian magistrate Anne Gurwez decides to revisit this cold case, pouring over the evidence with the use of new technologies and tracking down then-suspects.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both documentary & thriller

The Green Prince (2014)

This real-life thriller tells the story of one of Israel’s prized intelligence sources, recruited to spy on his own people for more than a decade. Focusing on the complex relationship with his handler, The Green Prince is a gripping account of terror, betrayal, and unthinkable choices, along with a friendship that defies all boundaries.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both documentary & thriller

Le Clitoris (2017)

Women are lucky, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure: the clitoris! In this humorous and instructive animated documentary, find out its unrecognized anatomy and its unknown herstory.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & documentary

Talhotblond (2009)

This is the true story of a love triangle that takes place entirely online. Lies lead to murder in real life, as a teenage vixen (screen name 'talhotblond') lures men into her web. Revealing a shocking true crime story that shows the Internet's power to unleash our most dangerous fantasies.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both documentary & thriller

The Devil Pulls the Strings (2022)

A visual essay about Mario Bava's film "Shock" by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas examining the film’s imagery, objects, and connections between possession and puppetry.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary

News from Taxi Driver (2019)

The New York of News from Home was filmed in 1976, while the one of Taxi Driver was filmed in the summer of 1975. Both works reflect the same decadent city. Two visions that shift from the everyday to the existential complement each other. A resignification of Akerman's images through the voice-over of Scorsese's work.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary

nostomanie (2026)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary

Luca Guadagnino: Projecting Desire (2025)

Video essay exploring Luca Guadagnino's filmmaking methods, focusing on the passionate dynamics of desire and ardent longing for connection that sizzles across his cinema.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary

Sentimental Structure (2023)

A video poem about a house. The home, or at least its foundations, are what evoke memories of that childhood, now lost in time.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary

A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride (2026)

From 1920 to 1965, the great Buster Keaton made spectacular use of locomotives in his films. This video essay charts the course of his iconic cinematic career across the many tracks he rode along on screen: as a young man in the surge of his silent movie ascent in Our Hospitality, while making his masterpiece The General, and traversing the width of Canada on a railway speeder car as an old man in The Railrodder.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary

Autobiography of My Diabetes (2025)

After the making of my previous film (PLAY DEAD!), some unfinished business remained on my desktop. Home movies and various body horror films from my childhood cluttered my computer screen. Part medical treatise, part self-anamnesis, and a mashup tinged with nostalgia, this video essay returns the images emanating from my computer screen to the everyday gaze of a diabetic.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary

Tales from the Black Forest (2025)

Video essay on Heart of Stone, folktales and gothic horror by film and literature scholar Mary Going. Included on the Eureka! Entertainment release of of the 1950 DEFA film "Heart of Stone," or "Das Kalte Herz", the original German title.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary

アウト画像 Autogazō (2025)

Through an exercise in fragmentation and personal memory, Autogazō examines the construction of self-identity projected across the six classical artistic disciplines. Navigating domestic archive footage, physical staging in darkness, and fractured reflections, the piece converges toward the seventh art: a threshold where cinema ceases to be a mere recording medium to embody the filmmaker himself.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary

«Permette? Ettore Scola» una conversazione con Lino Miccichè (2002)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary

Mill of the Stone Women & The Gothic Body (2025)

A visual essay on the trope of the wax/statue woman in Gothic horror by author and critic Kat Ellinger. She examines the film through “body Gothic”: the way Gothic horror turns women’s bodies into sites of beauty, vulnerability, illness, artistic display, medical exploitation, and death.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary

Oz Voyeurs (2025)

A Video essay where Andrew Mercado discusses Ozploitation rarities. The Australian films discussed are: Final Cut [or Death Games] (1980), Road Games(1981), Alvin Rides Again (1974), Lady Stay Dead (1981), Night Of Fear (1973), Inn Of The Damned (1975), Crosstalk (1982).

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary

Are You Sure That It Wasn’t Just Your Imagination? (2022)

A video essay on the film by writer and pop culture historian Keith Allison where he gives a concise historical-and-critical companion to Alberto De Martino’s 1963 The Blancheville Monster—released in Italy as Horror. Rather than functioning as a production-history interview, it places the film within the early-1960s revival of Gothic horror and then reads its particular blend of Poe-inspired nightmare, old-dark-house melodrama, and psychological uncertainty.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary

How Comedy Drowned in a Radioactive Cesspool of Corruption and Depravity (2026)

We continue our exploratory investigation into the depths of the comedy world, trying to figure out how and why it got so degraded and destroyed. Picking up from where our last exploration left off, we examine the current state of the comedy sphere, while probing the invisible techno algorithmic undertow that shapes our inner thoughts and outer behavior. We also consider humanity's innate and deeply subcortical instinct to belong to a group, and the amygdalar fear factory in our brain which influences us to stay with and protect that group. Comedy.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary

How Comedy Was Destroyed by an Anti-Reality Doomsday Cult (2025)

Continuing our investigation into how our current comedy era got to be so wonderful. They say that power doesn't corrupt, it reveals. Once a guy like Joe Rogan, the Comedy Czar, grabs hold of the reins of power, he can wield his power in any number of directions. We examine humanity's innate instinct to migrate, and where we head when there is nowhere else to go. How can the nature of subjective reality be leveraged and exploited. The complex psychological mechanisms behind the current comedy era. The powerful cult behind the destruction of everything that was ever good. Hyperreality, classic reality. And the cycles.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary

How Comedy Became a Dystopian Imperial Hell World (2025)

Human beings are on the precipice of the next migration era, and comedy is at the forefront of this new age. Some have already begun the journey. This is an ongoing investigation into how our current comedy era got to be so wonderful. How did this once beloved art form come to be run by an autocratic dictator? How it started. Why it won't end. The evolution of the podcast. The shadowy nature of identity. The cycles. Examining the tragic past and psychology that motivates its beloved Dear Leader: Joe Rogan. And wondering if the possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary

SO ALIVE! (2026)

A fictional boy aims to become a non-fictional rapper. His label has other plans.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary