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10 Best Movies Like Desolate Rome

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

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#1
For Sama

For Sama

2019★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desolate Rome 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 ...

#2
The Celluloid Closet

The Celluloid Closet

1996★ 7.2

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

Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Film contains fabulous footage from 1...

#3
Welcome to Chechnya

Welcome to Chechnya

2020★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desolate Rome 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...

#4
How to Survive a Plague

How to Survive a Plague

2012★ 6.8

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

A story of two coalitions – ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) – whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no...

#5
Seduced and Abandoned

Seduced and Abandoned

2013★ 6.2

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

SEDUCED AND ABANDONED combines acting legend Alec Baldwin with director James Toback as they lead us on a troublesome and often hilarious journey of raising financing for their nex...

#6
Salinger

Salinger

2013★ 6.4

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

An in-depth investigation into the private world of the American writer J. D. Salinger (1919-2010), who lived most of his life behind the impenetrable wall of a self-imposed seclus...

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