Movies like The Imposter
The Imposter (2012) is a documentary movie directed by Bart Layton. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Changeling (2008)
★ 7.6 · 4,635 votes · Crime, Drama, Mystery
Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.
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2. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
★ 7.2 · 4,341 votes · Thriller, Crime, Drama
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
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3. Jack Reacher (2012)
★ 6.7 · 7,922 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
One morning in an ordinary town, five people are shot dead in a seemingly random attack. All evidence points to a single suspect: an ex-military sniper who is quickly brought into custody. The interrogation yields one written note: 'Get Jack Reacher!'. Reacher, an enigmatic ex-Army investigator, believes the authorities have the right man but agrees to help the sniper's defense attorney. However, the more Reacher delves into the case, the less clear-cut it appears. So begins an extraordinary chase for the truth, pitting Jack Reacher against an unexpected enemy, with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.
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4. Searching (2018)
★ 7.6 · 4,406 votes · Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.
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5. Gone Girl (2014)
★ 7.9 · 20,536 votes · Mystery, Thriller, Drama
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
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6. Get Out (2017)
★ 7.6 · 19,481 votes · Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.
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7. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
★ 7.4 · 7,860 votes · Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
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8. Prisoners (2013)
★ 8.1 · 13,629 votes · Drama, Thriller, Crime
After his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in the detective leading the investigation, setting both men on a collision course as the search descends into obsession and moral compromise.
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9. 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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10. 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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11. American Murder: The Family Next Door (2020)
★ 7.2 · 779 votes · Crime, Documentary
Using raw, firsthand footage, this documentary examines the disappearance of Shanann Watts and her children, and the terrible events that followed.
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12. Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
★ 7.1 · 376 votes · Documentary, Crime
An Oscar nominated documentary about a middle-class American family who is torn apart when the father Arnold and son Jesse are accused of sexually abusing numerous children. Director Jarecki interviews people from different sides of this tragic story and raises the question of whether they were rightfully tried when they claim they were innocent and there was never any evidence against them.
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