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10 Best Movies Like This Ordinary Thing

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

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#1
Night Will Fall

Night Will Fall

2014★ 7.6

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

When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full...

#2
A Plastic Ocean

A Plastic Ocean

2016★ 7.5

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

A documentary focused on plastic pollution in the world's oceans....

#3
Fuck

Fuck

2006★ 6.4

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

A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use....

#4
Love, Gilda

Love, Gilda

2018★ 7.2

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

Diaries, audiotapes, videotapes and testimonials from friends and colleagues offer insight into the life and career of Gilda Radner -- the beloved comic and actress who became an i...

#5
Misha and the Wolves

Misha and the Wolves

2021★ 6.8

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

A woman’s Holocaust memoir takes the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher-turned-detective reveals her story as an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth....

#6
Love, Marilyn

Love, Marilyn

2013★ 6.6

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

Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote estates who have contributed m...

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