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10 Best Movies Like Underground and Emigrants

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

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#1
Welcome to Chechnya

Welcome to Chechnya

2020★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Underground and Emigrants 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...

#2
Looking for Richard

Looking for Richard

1996★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Underground and Emigrants for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."...

#3
Frida

Frida

2024★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Underground and Emigrants for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist Frida Kahlo. Told through her own words for the very first time — drawn from her diary, rev...

#4
Gilbert

Gilbert

2017★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Underground and Emigrants for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

The life and career of one of comedy's most inimitable modern voices, Mr. Gilbert Gottfried....

#5
The Last Repair Shop

The Last Repair Shop

2024★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Underground and Emigrants for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In a warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain more than 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in Ame...

#6
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

2016★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Underground and Emigrants for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Nude men in rubber suits, close-ups of erections, objects shoved in the most intimate of places—these are photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe, known by many as the most contro...

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