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10 Best Movies Like The Lavender Scare

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

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#1
My Mom Jayne

My Mom Jayne

2025โ€ขโ˜… 8.0

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

Through deeply personal interviews with her siblings and an examination of the photographs, letters, and belongings left behind, Mariska assembles a new portrait of her mother Jayn...

#2
Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown

Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown

2008โ€ขโ˜… 7.3

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

A chronicle of the life, work and mind that created the Cthulhu mythos....

#3
Marwencol

Marwencol

2010โ€ขโ˜… 7.2

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

After a vicious attack leaves him brain-damaged and broke, Mark Hogancamp seeks recovery in "Marwencol", a 1/6th scale World War II-era town he creates in his backyard....

#4
Welcome to Chechnya

Welcome to Chechnya

2020โ€ขโ˜… 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Lavender Scare 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...

#5
Champs

Champs

2015โ€ขโ˜… 6.4

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

A documentary about the sport of boxing, as seen through the eyes of champions Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield and Bernard Hopkins....

#6
McQueen

McQueen

2018โ€ขโ˜… 7.5

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

Alexander McQueen's rags-to-riches story is a modern-day fairy tale, laced with the gothic. Mirroring the savage beauty, boldness and vivacity of his design, this documentary is an...

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