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10 Best Movies Like How To Operate Your Brain

If you loved How To Operate Your Brain, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Sidney

Sidney

2022★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How To Operate Your Brain for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

This revealing documentary honors the legendary Sidney Poitier—iconic actor, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. Featuring interviews with Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Halle Ber...

#2
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends

The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends

2019★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How To Operate Your Brain for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

This documentary focuses on the actors and their journey over two summers to create the remake to the original IT, by Stephen King. The documentary originally released as bonus mat...

#3
Listen to Me Marlon

Listen to Me Marlon

2015★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How To Operate Your Brain 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...

#4
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror

Halloween: 25 Years of Terror

2006★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How To Operate Your Brain for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Follow the evolution of the 'Halloween' movies over the past twenty-five years. It examines why the films are so popular and revisits many of the original locations used in the fi...

#5
Seduced and Abandoned

Seduced and Abandoned

2013★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How To Operate Your Brain 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
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button

The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button

2009★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How To Operate Your Brain for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A documentary about the making of David Fincher's 2008 film THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON. Virtually every element in the evolution of the Fincher's film is documented here, ...

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