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10 Best Movies Like Her Name Is Chef

If you loved Her Name Is Chef, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Heart of a Dog

Heart of a Dog

2015★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Her Name Is Chef 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...

#2
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon

Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon

2013★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Her Name Is Chef for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Supermensch documents the astounding career of Hollywood insider, the loveable Shep Gordon, who fell into music management by chance after moving to LA straight out of college, and...

#3
Oprah Winfrey Presents: When They See Us Now

Oprah Winfrey Presents: When They See Us Now

2019★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Her Name Is Chef for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Oprah Winfrey talks with the exonerated men once known as the Central Park Five, plus the cast and producers who tell their story in "When They See Us."...

#4
Fuck

Fuck

2006★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Her Name Is Chef for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use....

#5
I Am Ali

I Am Ali

2014★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Her Name Is Chef for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Unprecedented access to Muhammad Ali's personal archive of "audio journals" as well as interviews and testimonials from his inner circle of family and friends are used to tell the ...

#6
RBG

RBG

2018★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Her Name Is Chef for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg now 84, and still inspired by the lawyers who defended free speech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish her passionate duty, steadily fi...

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