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10 Best Movies Like Close-Up Long Shot

If you loved Close-Up Long Shot, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Close-Up

Close-Up

1990★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Close-Up Long Shot for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf...

#2
Katatsumori

Katatsumori

1994★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Close-Up Long Shot for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Filmmaker Naomi Kawase captures the love, loss, and loneliness felt as she prepares to move out of her foster mother's home....

#3
Magic Candies

Magic Candies

2025★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Close-Up Long Shot for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

The other kids never ask Dong-Dong to play, but he’s fine just playing marbles on his own. Until one day, he buys a bag of colorful candies and begins to discover new voices and pe...

#4
Nem Verdade Nem Mentira

Nem Verdade Nem Mentira

1979★ 9.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Close-Up Long Shot for fans of . It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A mockumentary (or is it a fake fiction?) about journalism....

#5
Days and Nights

Days and Nights

1955★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Close-Up Long Shot for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An athletic young man falls for a beautiful woman with a troubled brother. Handsome Yehia (Hafez) may come from a troubled background, but he's always strived to make the best of h...

#6
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Close-Up Long Shot for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....