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10 Best Movies Like Putin's Spies

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

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#1
Cover-Up

Cover-Up

2025★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Putin's Spies for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

He's devoted his career to uncovering stories the powerful want buried. From My Lai to Abu Ghraib, dig into the life's work of journalist Seymour Hersh....

#2
Citizenfour

Citizenfour

2014★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Putin's Spies for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her....

#3
20 Days in Mariupol

20 Days in Mariupol

2023★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Putin's Spies for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities....

#4
Naqoyqatsi

Naqoyqatsi

2002★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Putin's Spies for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence....

#5
HyperNormalisation

HyperNormalisation

2016★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Putin's Spies for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing, and nothing ever changes. It is...

#6
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 Putin's Spies 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...

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