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10 Best Movies Like Examined Life

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

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#1
Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience

Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience

2016★ 6.9

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

A celebration of the universe, displaying the whole of time, from its start to its final collapse. This film examines all that occurred to prepare the world that stands before us n...

#2
Heart of a Dog

Heart of a Dog

2015★ 6.5

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

Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveilla...

#3
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

2006★ 7.4

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

A hilarious introduction, using as examples some of the best films ever made, to some of Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek's most exciting ideas on personal subj...

#4
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

2012★ 7.3

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

A journey into the labyrinthine heart of ideology, which shapes and justifies both collective and personal beliefs and practices: with an infectious zeal and voracious appetite for...

#5
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

2000★ 7.6

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

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern fo...

#6
RBG

RBG

2018★ 7.5

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

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg now 84, and still inspired by the lawyers who defended free speech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish her passionate duty, steadily fi...

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