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10 Best Movies Like Underground and Emigrants

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

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#1
Looking for Richard

Looking for Richard

1996★ 6.8

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

Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."...

#2
Frida

Frida

2024★ 6.7

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

An intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist Frida Kahlo. Told through her own words for the very first time — drawn from her diary, rev...

#3
The Circle

The Circle

2014★ 6.5

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

A young teacher in Zurich in the 1950s falls in love with a transvestite star but is torn between his bourgeois existence and his commitment to homosexuality. He joins a gay organi...

#4
Gilbert

Gilbert

2017★ 6.7

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

The life and career of one of comedy's most inimitable modern voices, Mr. Gilbert Gottfried....

#5
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

2016★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Underground and Emigrants 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
Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski

Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski

2018★ 7.5

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

Artists in LA discover the work of forgotten Polish sculptor Stanislav Szukalski, a mad genius whose true story unfolds chapter by astounding chapter....

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