14 best movies like Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude (1998)

List of the best movies like Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude (1998): If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, Three Identical Strangers, The Last of McGuinness, It Takes a Lunatic, The Imposter, Whitney, Inocente, Kate Plays Christine, I Shouldn't Be Alive, The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling.

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Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, documentary, crime, biography, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:25

Filmmaker Marshall Curry explores the inner workings of the Earth Liberation Front, a revolutionary movement devoted to crippling facilities involved in deforestation, while simultaneously offering a profile of Oregon ELF member Daniel McGowan, who was brought up on terrorism charges for his involvement with the radical group.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, documentary, detective, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:08

New York, 1980. Three complete strangers accidentally discover that they're identical triplets, separated at birth. The 19-year-olds' joyous reunion catapults them to international fame, but also unlocks an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes beyond their own lives – and could transform our understanding of human nature forever.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama, documentary, biography
CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom

After finally achieving his childhood dream, being one of the top professional wrestlers in the world, Nigel McGuinness painfully travels the world for one last tour, battling to understand his place in the business he spent his life pursuing, after his career was cut mysteriously short.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, documentary, biography
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany

The extraordinary life of beloved acting teacher and theatre producer Wynn Handman is recalled in this portrait of a provocative, innovative artist.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama, documentary, crime, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:39

It’s 1994: a 13-year-old boy disappears from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three and a half years later, he is found alive, thousands of miles away, in Spain. Disoriented and quivering with fear, he divulges his shocking story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not what it seems. Sure, he has the same tattoos, but he looks decidedly different, and he now speaks with a strange accent. Why doesn't the family seem to notice these glaring inconsistencies? It's only when an investigator starts asking questions that this astounding true story takes an even stranger turn.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, documentary, music, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:44

Filmmaker Kevin Macdonald examines the life and career of singer Whitney Houston. Features never-before-seen archival footage, exclusive recordings, rare performances and interviews with the people who knew her best.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, documentary, short, biography
CountryUSA
Duration00:40

INOCENTE is a personal and vibrant coming of age story about a young artist's determination never to surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings. At 15, Inocente refuses to let her dream of becoming an artist be caged by being an undocumented immigrant forced to live homeless for the last nine years. Color is her personal revolution and its sweep on her canvases creates a world that looks nothing like her own dark past. INOCENTE is both a timeless story about the transformative power of art and a timely snapshot of the new face of homelessness in America: children. The challenges are staggering, but the hope in her story proves that the hand she has been dealt does not define her, her dreams do.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, drama, documentary, biography
CountryUSA

Follow actress Kate Lyn Sheil as she prepares for her next role: playing Christine Chubbuck, a Florida newscaster who committed suicide live on-air in 1974. As Kate investigates Chubbuck’s story, uncovering new clues and information, she becomes increasingly obsessed with her subject.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genredrama, documentary, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

The show features accounts of individuals and groups caught in dangerous scenarios, presented both through interviews and dramatic reenactments. The main focus is how the survivors survived and the decisions they made that kept them alive.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genrecomedy, drama, documentary, biography
CountryUSA

The story of legendary comedian Garry Shandling, featuring interviews from nearly four dozen friends, family and colleagues; four decades’ worth of television appearances; and a lifetime of personal journals, private letters and home audio and video footage.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama, documentary, crime, detective, biography
CountryUSA

An experimental documentary film that uses archival footage, interviews, and fictionalized scenarios to tell the story of the people around Jeffrey Dahmer during the summer of his arrest in 1991.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, documentary, biography
CountryUSA

The life story of ‘Zen Anarchist’ filmmaker John Milius, one of the most influential storytellers of his generation.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama, documentary, biography
CountryUSA

A documentary on the life and career of Joan Rivers, made as the comedienne turns 75 years old.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama, documentary, biography
CountryUSA

A documentary interspersed with acted scenes, this portrait of John DeLorean covers the brilliant but tragically flawed automaker's rise to stardom and shocking down fall.




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