Movies like Capturing the Friedmans

Capturing the Friedmans (2003) is a documentary movie directed by Andrew Jarecki. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.

  1. Border

    1. Border (2018)

    ★ 6.7 · 954 votes · Fantasy, Drama, Crime

    When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.

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  2. Mystic River

    2. Mystic River (2003)

    ★ 7.7 · 7,766 votes · Thriller, Drama, Mystery

    The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

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  3. Trust

    3. Trust (2010)

    ★ 6.6 · 1,069 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller

    A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her parents are shattered by their daughter's actions and struggle to support her as she comes to terms with what has happened to her once innocent life.

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  4. Abducted in Plain Sight

    4. Abducted in Plain Sight (2017)

    ★ 6.6 · 405 votes · Documentary, Crime

    A family falls prey to the manipulative charms of a neighbor, who abducts their adolescent daughter. Twice.

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  5. Girl in the Picture

    5. Girl in the Picture (2022)

    ★ 7.1 · 317 votes · Crime, Documentary

    A young mother’s mysterious death and her son’s subsequent kidnapping blow open a decades-long mystery about the woman’s true identity, and the murderous federal fugitive at the center of it all.

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  6. The Imposter

    6. The Imposter (2012)

    ★ 7.3 · 823 votes · Documentary, Mystery, Crime

    In 1994, a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.

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