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10 Best Movies Like True Stories

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

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#1
Stop Making Sense

Stop Making Sense

1984★ 8.3

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

A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album "Speaking in Tongues." The band takes the stage one by one and is joined by...

#2
Waiting for Guffman

Waiting for Guffman

1996★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to True Stories for fans of Comedy & Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort ...

#3
Hero and the Terror

Hero and the Terror

1988★ 5.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to True Stories for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Danny O'Brien is back in action fighting the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror. Three years earlier O'Brien had single-handedly captured The Terror and was called Hero...

#4
The Believers

The Believers

1987★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to True Stories for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly...

#5
Echo

Echo

2019★ 6.7

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

Through 56 independent scenes, Echo draws a portrait, both biting and tender, of modern day Iceland during the often turbulent but also exciting time of the Christmas holidays....

#6
The Tingler

The Tingler

1959★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to True Stories for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on...