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10 Best Movies Like Iris

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

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#1
Six Hours: Surviving Typhoon Yolanda

Six Hours: Surviving Typhoon Yolanda

2014★ 8.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Iris for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the middle of a broadcast about Typhoon Yolanda's initial impact, reporter Jiggy Manicad was faced with the reality that he no longer had communication with his station. They we...

#2
Shangku Shelter

Shangku Shelter

2018★ 7.2

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

Zanskar is a remote kingdom in the northwest Indian Himalaya, where local people are snow-bound for six months of the year. About 10,000 Zanskaris live in the isolated valley. In w...

#3
Secrets of the CIA

Secrets of the CIA

1998★ 6.0

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

It fought against international terrorism in South America and watched out for our allies abroad...but what else did it do?...What are the true secrets of the C.I.A.?...

#4
Locked-In Syndrome

Locked-In Syndrome

1997★ 6.2

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

On December 8, 1995, at the age of 43, Jean-Dominque Bauby, editor-in-chief of ELLE Magazine, suffered from a stroke and fell into a coma. When Bauby awoke he found himself complet...

#5
Tomorrow Somewhere by the Sea

Tomorrow Somewhere by the Sea

2023★ 5.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Iris for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A road trip after graduating from high school is the setting of this independent feature film, in which four fundamentally different teenagers set off to Portugal together to find ...

#6
On the Juche Idea

On the Juche Idea

1991★ 10.0

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

the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung and how imperalism shouldnt exist...