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10 Best Movies Like Waste Land

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

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#1
For Sama

For Sama

2019★ 8.2

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

A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets ...

#2
Zero Days

Zero Days

2016★ 7.4

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

Alex Gibney explores the phenomenon of Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer virus discovered in 2010 by international IT experts. Evidently commissioned by the US and Israeli gover...

#3
Falcon Rising

Falcon Rising

2014★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waste Land for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Chapman is an ex-marine in Brazil's slums, battling the yakuza outfit who attacked his sister and left her for dead....

#4
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling

2016★ 7.9

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

Andrew Dominik's One More Time With Feeling is a remarkable black and white documentary which chronicles the creation of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' album Skeleton Tree. Originally ...

#5
Night Will Fall

Night Will Fall

2014★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waste Land 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...

#6
One Child Nation

One Child Nation

2019★ 7.2

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

Through interviews with both victims and instigators, Nanfu Wang, a first-time mother, breaks open decades of silence on a vast, unprecedented social experiment that shaped — and d...

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