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10 Best Movies Like Eva Hesse

If you loved Eva Hesse, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
To Be Takei

To Be Takei

2014★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Eva Hesse for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Over seven decades, actor and activist George Takei journeyed from a World War II internment camp to the helm of the Starship Enterprise, and then to the daily news feeds of five m...

#2
Heart of a Dog

Heart of a Dog

2015★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Eva Hesse for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveilla...

#3
Frida

Frida

2024★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Eva Hesse for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist Frida Kahlo. Told through her own words for the very first time — drawn from her diary, rev...

#4
Love, Marilyn

Love, Marilyn

2013★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Eva Hesse 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...

#5
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

2013★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Eva Hesse 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....

#6
Cameraperson

Cameraperson

2016★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Eva Hesse 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...

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