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10 Best Movies Like Dick Johnson Is Dead

If you loved Dick Johnson Is Dead, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

2018★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dick Johnson Is Dead for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind....

#2
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

2013★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dick Johnson Is Dead for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his renditions of American folk songs....

#3
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me

Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me

2023★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dick Johnson Is Dead for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

From the heights of her modeling fame to her tragic death, this documentary reveals Anna Nicole Smith through the eyes of the people closest to her....

#4
"Sr."

"Sr."

2022★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dick Johnson Is Dead for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A portrait of the life and career of Robert Downey Sr. (1936-2021), the visionary and fearless US filmmaker — father of actor Robert Downey Jr. — who in the sixties and seventies l...

#5
Cameraperson

Cameraperson

2016★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dick Johnson Is Dead for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations th...

#6
Love, Marilyn

Love, Marilyn

2013★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dick Johnson Is Dead for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote estates who have contributed m...

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