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Documentaries like Flee

Not everyone loves Flee for the same reason. Pick the one that was yours, and the picks follow.

The 3 reasons people love Flee

Read them all. One will sound more like you than the others.

  1. You want a true story told by the person who lived it.

  2. You like animation used to protect a face and still show everything.

  3. You want one life followed from Kabul to a house in Denmark.

Picks that share your reasons

Which reasons were yours?

Tick them here or with “That’s me” above. The picks re-sort by how many of your reasons they share.

  • Waltz with Bashir2008

    • a true story told by the person who lived it
    • animation used to protect a face and still show everything

    Good for you if you like a director investigating his own past.

  • Grizzly Man2005

    • a true story told by the person who lived it
    • one life followed from Kabul to a house in Denmark

    Good for you if you like a portrait made from a man's own tapes.

  • Violet Evergarden2018

    • animation used to protect a face and still show everything
    • one life followed from Kabul to a house in Denmark

    Good for you if you watch for light, rain and ink drawn with care.

  • Into the Wild2007

    • a true story told by the person who lived it
    • one life followed from Kabul to a house in Denmark

    Good for you if you like a young man searching for meaning.

  • Paris Is Burning1991

    • a true story told by the person who lived it
    • one life followed from Kabul to a house in Denmark

    Good for you if you want the ballroom scene from the people who built it, in their own words.

  • Neon Genesis Evangelion1995

    • one life followed from Kabul to a house in Denmark

    Good for you if you care more about the pilots' minds than the robot fights.

  • Night and Fog1956

    • a true story told by the person who lived it

    Good for you if you want the record itself, the archives and the places as they were left.

  • Three Identical Strangers2018

    • a true story told by the person who lived it

    Good for you if you like hearing the brothers tell it themselves.

  • American Murder: The Family Next Door2020

    • a true story told by the person who lived it

    Good for you if you want a case told only through the footage and messages left behind.

  • Cobain: Montage of Heck2015

    • a true story told by the person who lived it
    • one life followed from Kabul to a house in Denmark

    Good for you if you want his own tapes and drawings rather than someone else's version of him.

  • American Sniper2014

    • a true story told by the person who lived it
    • one life followed from Kabul to a house in Denmark

    Good for you if you want a war story that really happened.

Reasons taken from Flee's card. Picks from the Ipsomap catalogue. This application uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB.

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