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10 Best Movies Like The Celluloid Closet

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

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2020★ 7.8

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

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about the...

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Welcome to Chechnya

Welcome to Chechnya

2020★ 6.8

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

This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian repub...

#3
Circus of Books

Circus of Books

2019★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Celluloid Closet for fans of Documentary & History. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

For decades, a nice Jewish couple ran Circus of Books, a porn shop and epicenter for gay LA. Their director daughter documents their life and times....

#4
The Last Repair Shop

The Last Repair Shop

2024★ 7.5

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

In a warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain more than 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in Ame...

#5
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

2016★ 6.9

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

Nude men in rubber suits, close-ups of erections, objects shoved in the most intimate of places—these are photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe, known by many as the most contro...

#6
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

2013★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Celluloid Closet 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....

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