Movies like What Haunts Us (2017)
The best movies like What Haunts Us (2017) are Rewind (2019), Mourning Son (2015) and Brother's Keeper (1992). If What Haunts Us 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 ratedAudrie & Daisy (2016)7.1/10 from 204 votes
- NewestDeath by Numbers (2024)Released 2024
Rewind (2019)
Digging through the vast collection of his father's home videos, a young man reconstructs the unthinkable story of his boyhood and exposes vile abuse passed through generations.
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Mourning Son (2015)
Dave Navarro is a trauma survivor of the highest order. When Dave was only 15 years old his mother was brutally murdered by her estranged ex-boyfriend. For 8 long years her killer avoided capture while Dave dealt with his deepest, darkest fears through drugs, art and escapism. In a heartbreaking, inspirational journey, Dave confronts the events that changed his life forever. Through revelations from friends and family, to the cold hard facts from police and FBI agents, Dave attempts to come to terms with his mother's senseless murder and the horrific realities of domestic violence.
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Brother's Keeper (1992)
This documentary by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky details the murder trial of Delbert Ward. Delbert was a member of a family of four elderly brothers, working as semi-literate farmers and living together in isolation from the rest of society until William's death.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisDeath by Numbers (2024)
Four years after being shot with an AR-15 during the Parkland school shooting on February 14, 2018, Samantha Fuentes reckons with existential questions of hatred and justice as she prepares to confront her shooter.
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A Dangerous Son (2018)
Documentary following three families each coping with a child affected by serious emotional or mental illness. The families explore treatment opportunities and grapple with the struggle of living with their child's condition.
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American Tragedy (2019)
Sue Klebold attempts to reconcile how the son she affectionately referred to as "Sunshine Boy" became a school shooter. "If love could have stopped Columbine," she says, "Columbine would never have happened."
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The Witness (2015)
A brother's journey to unravel the truth about the mythic death and little known life of Kitty Genovese, who was reportedly murdered in front of 38 witnesses and has become the face of urban apathy.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Am Vanessa Guillen (2022)
Vanessa Guillen was 20 years old when she was found murdered at a US Army base. Rather than submit to silence, her family fought for justice and change.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Family I Had (2017)
In The Family I Had, a mother recalls how her brilliant teenage son came to shatter their idyllic family through one horribly violent and shocking act. Now, left to pick up the pieces, the survivors test the boundaries of their newly defined reality in this moving true crime exploration of the nature and limits of familial love.
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Always in Season (2019)
When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother's search for justice and reconciliation begins while the trauma of more than a century of lynching African Americans bleeds into the present.
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The Lie: The Murder of Grace Millane (2024)
The shocking murder of 21-year-old British backpacker, Grace Millane, in New Zealand grabbed headlines around the world in 2018, as did the ensuing investigation and trial. This chilling true-crime documentary revisits the night of her tragic murder with previously unseen footage and expert analysis, exploring the alarming, regressive attitudes laid bare in the subsequent trial, and highlighting important, broader issues of violence against women in today’s society.
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Feast of the Assumption: BTK and the Otero Family Murders (2010)
A living victim's personal journey through one of the most unique serial killer cases in U.S. History - the BTK murders, as told through the eyes of Charlie Otero, the oldest surviving member of the first family BTK murdered on January 15th, 1974.
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When We Were Bullies (2021)
A mind-boggling "coincidence" leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class – and fifth grade teacher – to examine their memory of and complicity in a bullying incident fifty years ago.
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Who Killed My Son? (2021)
In the colder time of year of 2014, an Indian American understudy named Pravin Varughese disappears in the little, southern Illinois city of Carbondale. Close to 7 days after Pravin’s vanishing, his body is found and the specialists rule his demise a mishap.
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77 Minutes (2016)
A documentary by Charlie Minn about the McDonalds Massacre from 1984, when a man walked into a McDonald's restaurant in San Diego armed with guns and shot 40 men, women, and children. It took law enforcement 77 minutes to end the siege. This documentary focuses on the victims of the attack and its effects.
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Leave No Trace (2022)
In February 2022, the Boy Scouts of America reached a $2.7 billion agreement over sex abuse claims, the largest such settlement in history. Leave No Trace explores how this all-American institution went so horrifyingly wrong.
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Life with Murder (2010)
Chatham, Ontario, 1998. Eighteen-year-old Jennifer Jenkins is brutally shot to death by multiple rifle rounds in her family home. The main suspect: her brother, Mason Jenkins, who fled the scene of the crime.
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The Acid King (2021)
The story of Ricky Kasso, an American teenager who murdered his friend, Gary Lauwers, in an alleged "Satanic sacrifice" during the summer of 1984.
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Audrie & Daisy (2016)
A documentary film about three cases of rape, that includes the stories of two American high school students, Audrie Pott and Daisy Coleman. At the time of the sexual assaults, Pott was 15 and Coleman was 14 years old. After the assaults, the victims and their families were subjected to abuse and cyberbullying.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisThere's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane (2011)
Filmmaker Liz Garbus investigates the mysterious tragedy of Diane Schuler in an effort to understand what went wrong.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWho Took Johnny (2014)
An examination of the infamous thirty-year-old cold case of Iowa paperboy Johnny Gosch, the first missing child to appear on a milk carton. The film focuses on Johnny’s mother, Noreen Gosch, and her relentless quest to find the truth about what happened to her son. Along the way there have been mysterious sightings, bizarre revelations, and a confrontation with a person who claims to have helped abduct Johnny.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStrong Island (2017)
Examining the violent death of the filmmaker’s brother and the judicial system that allowed his killer to go free, this documentary interrogates murderous fear and racialized perception, and re-imagines the wreckage in catastrophe’s wake, challenging us to change.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMost Likely to Succeed (2019)
In 2007, four teenagers from disparate backgrounds are voted "Most Likely To Succeed" during their senior year of high school. Over a ten-year period, they each chart their own version of success and navigate the unpredictability of American life in the 21st Century.
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Citizen Sleuth (2023)
Follows Emily Nestor and her hit true-crime podcast, Mile Marker 181, as she investigates a mysterious death. Her search for truth—and fame—reveals the rise and fall of an Appalachian podcaster in the new media age.
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The Unspeakable (2021)
Their loved ones were murdered on 9/11. Twenty years later, they are still fighting for the truth.
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Are All Men Pedophiles? (2013)
We live in a society that both condemns pedophiles and sexualizes young girls. The film explores the many dangers children face and exposes the systematic violation of children rights by societies, presenting the testimony of both victims and perpetrators. It also looks at how the pedophilia hysteria that has led to the mass incarceration adults and children.
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Song of Parkland (2019)
When Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School drama teacher Melody Herzfeld heard the fire alarm on Feb. 14, 2018, she was with her students in rehearsals for their annual children’s musical. Moments later, a Code Red sounded. Herzfeld rushed her 65 students into a storage closet while a shooter killed 17 teachers and students nearby.
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We Will Dance Again (2024)
A music festival symbolizing peace, freedom, and eternal love transforms into a horrifying nightmare of terror. Survivors, marked by death and trauma, reconstruct the event through their perspectives, embodying the lost innocence and beauty of youth, forever scarred by the tragic events that unfolded. This is a horrifying glimpse through the eyes of the individuals who endured the brutal October 7th onslaught at the Nova Music Festival.
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32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide (2017)
Traces the life and mental illness of New York artist and photographer Ruth Litoff, and her sister's struggle to come to terms with her tragic suicide.
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Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes (2021)
Serial killer Dennis Nilsen narrates his life and horrific crimes via a series of chilling audiotapes recorded from his jail cell.
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like What Haunts Us?
The closest matches to What Haunts Us are Rewind (2019), Mourning Son (2015) and Brother's Keeper (1992). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after What Haunts Us?
People who watched What Haunts Us most often go on to Rewind (2019), Mourning Son (2015) and Brother's Keeper (1992).
What is the highest-rated movie like What Haunts Us?
Audrie & Daisy (2016), rated 7.1/10 by 204 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like What Haunts Us?
Death by Numbers (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like What Haunts Us?
Yes: Rewind (2019), Mourning Son (2015) and Brother's Keeper (1992).
How are movies similar to What Haunts Us chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside What Haunts Us, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.