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10 Best Movies Like Taraneh: A Documentary

If you loved Taraneh: A Documentary, 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 Taraneh: A Documentary 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
Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

2018★ 7.5

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

In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. This documentary revisits tho...

#3
Jane Fonda in Five Acts

Jane Fonda in Five Acts

2018★ 7.2

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

Girl next door, activist, so-called traitor, fitness tycoon, Oscar winner: Jane Fonda has lived a life of controversy, tragedy and transformation – and she’s done it all in the pub...

#4
The Red Pill

The Red Pill

2016★ 7.5

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

When a feminist filmmaker sets out to document the mysterious and polarizing world of the Men’s Rights Movement, she begins to question her own beliefs. Chronicling Cassie Jaye’s j...

#5
For Sama

For Sama

2019★ 8.2

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

A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets ...

#6
Heart of a Dog

Heart of a Dog

2015★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Taraneh: A Documentary 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...

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