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10 Best Movies Like The Unknown Known

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

#1
The Thin Blue Line

The Thin Blue Line

1988★ 7.6

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

This unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas....

#2
In Order of Disappearance

In Order of Disappearance

2014★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Unknown Known for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begi...

#3
Three Times

Three Times

2005★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Unknown Known for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three different periods of Taiwanese history...

#4
Rigor Mortis

Rigor Mortis

2013★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Unknown Known for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

When a former actor moves into an apartment building with the intention of commiting suicide, he is saved by a Taoist priest who used to specialize in hunting Chinese hopping vampi...

#5
Cutie and the Boxer

Cutie and the Boxer

2013★ 6.9

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

This candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko. Anxious to shed her role as her overbearing husb...

#6
Tim's Vermeer

Tim's Vermeer

2013★ 7.3

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

Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 ye...