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10 Best Movies Like The Red Herring

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

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#1
O.J.: Made in America

O.J.: Made in America

2016★ 8.4

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

A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation....

#2
South of the Border

South of the Border

2009★ 5.9

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

A road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its ele...

#3
Hitchcock/Truffaut

Hitchcock/Truffaut

2015★ 7.2

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

Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966....

#4
Wormwood

Wormwood

2017★ 6.9

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

In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist entangled in a secret Cold War program known as MK-Ultra....

#5
Deep Web

Deep Web

2015★ 6.8

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

Deep Web gives the inside story of one of the most important and riveting digital crime sagas of the century -- the arrest of Ross William Ulbricht, the 30-year-old entrepreneur co...

#6
2000 Mules

2000 Mules

2022★ 5.9

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

Bestselling author and award-winning filmmaker, Dinesh D’Souza, exposes widespread coordinated voter fraud in the 2020 election sufficient to change the overall outcome. Drawing on...

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