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10 Best Movies Like Waste Land

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

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#1
Lemonade

Lemonade

2016★ 8.4

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

The second "visual album" (a collection of short films) by Beyoncé, this time around she takes a piercing look at racial issues and feminist concepts through a sexualized, satirica...

#2
Listen to Me Marlon

Listen to Me Marlon

2015★ 7.5

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

With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Mar...

#3
Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

2018★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waste Land 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...

#4
Frida

Frida

2024★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waste Land 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...

#5
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

2022★ 7.2

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

The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her person...

#6
For Sama

For Sama

2019★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waste Land 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 ...

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