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  1. You want to see the Aum sect from inside, a year after the Tokyo subway attack.

  2. You like a film that refuses to tell you what to think of the people it films.

  3. You can sit with long, quiet scenes of daily life in a compound.

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  • House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths2021

    • you want to see the Aum sect from inside, a year after the Tokyo subway attack

    Good for you if you want to understand a real case that shook Delhi.

  • Shoah1985

    • you can sit with long, quiet scenes of daily life in a compound

    Good for you if you can sit with long silences and slow train journeys.

  • The Staircase2004

    • you want to see the Aum sect from inside, a year after the Tokyo subway attack
    • a film that refuses to tell you what to think of the people it films

    Good for you if you like a camera inside a real defense team during a murder trial.

  • Until the Light Takes Us2008

    • you want to see the Aum sect from inside, a year after the Tokyo subway attack

    Good for you if you'd rather hear the musicians themselves than the rumours.

  • Waco: American Apocalypse2023

    • you want to see the Aum sect from inside, a year after the Tokyo subway attack

    Good for you if you want to understand what really happened at Waco.

  • Making a Murderer2015

    • you can sit with long, quiet scenes of daily life in a compound

    Good for you if you like a case followed over ten years, hearing by hearing.

  • Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi2022

    • you want to see the Aum sect from inside, a year after the Tokyo subway attack

    Good for you if you want a careful account of a real family's long search.

  • Voyeur2017

    • you want to see the Aum sect from inside, a year after the Tokyo subway attack
    • a film that refuses to tell you what to think of the people it films

    Good for you if you like a true story about how a big article gets made.

  • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory2012

    • you want to see the Aum sect from inside, a year after the Tokyo subway attack

    Good for you if you followed the West Memphis Three case and want to see how it ended.

  • The Vow2020

    • you want to see the Aum sect from inside, a year after the Tokyo subway attack

    Good for you if you want to understand how thoughtful people were drawn into NXIVM.

  • Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple2006

    • you want to see the Aum sect from inside, a year after the Tokyo subway attack
    • you can sit with long, quiet scenes of daily life in a compound

    Good for you if you want to understand how ordinary people followed Jim Jones.

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