Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "pseudo-documentary"

1. Megan Is Missing (2011)

Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Two teenage girls encounter an Internet child predator.

Director: Michael Goi | Stars: Amber Perkins, Rachel Quinn, Dean Waite, Jael Elizabeth Steinmeyer

Votes: 15,487

2. Daisy Jones & The Six (2023)

TV-MA | 49 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Following the rise of rock band Daisy Jones and The Six through the 1970s Los Angeles music scene on their quest for worldwide icon status.

Stars: Riley Keough, Sam Claflin, Camila Morrone, Suki Waterhouse

Votes: 37,588

3. Borat (2006)

R | 84 min | Comedy

Kazakh TV talking head Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the greatest country in the world.

Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Luenell, Chester

Votes: 442,178 | Gross: $128.51M

4. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

R | 82 min | Comedy, Music

Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.

Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Kimberly Stringer

Votes: 147,381 | Gross: $4.74M

5. Host (II) (2020)

Not Rated | 57 min | Horror, Mystery

Six friends hire a medium to hold a seance via Zoom during lockdown, but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong.

Director: Rob Savage | Stars: Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, Radina Drandova

Votes: 39,474

6. Lake Mungo (2008)

R | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Strange things start happening after a girl is found drowned in a lake.

Director: Joel Anderson | Stars: Rosie Traynor, David Pledger, Martin Sharpe, Talia Zucker

Votes: 28,979

7. 14 and Under (1973)

X | 87 min | Comedy

A series of "sex reports" intended to address the issue of pedophilia in the early 1970s.

Director: Ernst Hofbauer | Stars: Lis Kertelge, Melitta Tegeler, Harald Baerow, Hans Billian

Votes: 479

8. The Battle of Algiers (1966)

Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, War

In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.

Director: Gillo Pontecorvo | Stars: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash

Votes: 65,667 | Gross: $0.06M

9. Faces of Death (1978)

Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary, Horror

A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV material to homemade super 8 movies.

Director: John Alan Schwartz | Stars: Michael Carr, Samuel Berkowitz, Mary Ellen Brighton, Thomas Noguchi

Votes: 8,000 | Gross: $35.00M

10. Brüno (2009)

R | 81 min | Comedy

Flamboyant, gay Austrian Brüno looks for new fame in America.

Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten, Clifford Bañagale, Chibundu Orukwowu

Votes: 153,884 | Gross: $60.05M

11. Apollo 18 (2011)

PG-13 | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Decades-old found footage from NASA's abandoned Apollo 18 mission, where three American astronauts were sent on a secret expedition, reveals the reason the U.S. has never returned to the moon.

Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego | Stars: Warren Christie, Lloyd Owen, Ryan Robbins, Michael Kopsa

Votes: 57,976 | Gross: $17.69M

12. Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)

Unrated | 123 min | Drama

Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.

Directors: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi | Stars: Stefano Sibaldi, Susan Hampshire, Dick Gregory, Gualtiero Jacopetti

Votes: 1,753

13. A Hard Day's Night (1964)

G | 87 min | Comedy, Musical

Over two "typical" days in the life of The Beatles, the boys struggle to keep themselves and Sir Paul McCartney's mischievous grandfather in check while preparing for a live TV performance.

Director: Richard Lester | Stars: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr

Votes: 48,092 | Gross: $13.78M

14. Wellington Paranormal (2018–2022)

TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

Sergeant Maaka, and Officers Minogue and O'Leary, are members of the Wellington, New Zealand, police. Their job is to investigate paranormal phenomena.

Stars: Mike Minogue, Karen O'Leary, Maaka Pohatu, Thomas Sainsbury

Votes: 7,865

15. I'm Still Here (I) (2010)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Documents Joaquin Phoenix's transition from the acting world to a career as an aspiring rapper.

Director: Casey Affleck | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Antony Langdon, Carey Perloff, Larry McHale

Votes: 23,895 | Gross: $0.41M

16. Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel (2018)

Not Rated | 89 min | Horror, Mystery

Two years after escaping from demonic terror, a young woman is still haunted by unnatural visions.

Director: Stephen Cognetti | Stars: Vas Eli, Jillian Geurts, Joy Shatz, Dusty Austen

Votes: 7,072

17. The Roaring Twenties (1939)

Passed | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane, Gladys George

Votes: 15,531

18. Schoolgirl Report Part 5: What All Parents Should Know (1973)

86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Six more first-hand accounts of sexual awakening amongst school girls in the early Seventies - some with a happy end, some without.

Directors: Walter Boos, Ernst Hofbauer | Stars: Judith Armbrüster, Ekkehardt Belle, Erika Blumberger, Marina Blümel

Votes: 379

19. Catfish (2010)

PG-13 | 87 min | Documentary, Drama, Mystery

Young filmmakers document their colleague's budding online friendship with a young woman and her family which leads to an unexpected series of discoveries.

Directors: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman | Stars: Nev Schulman, Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost, Angela Wesselman-Pierce

Votes: 43,741 | Gross: $3.23M

20. Vagabond (1985)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama

A young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.

Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Macha Méril, Stéphane Freiss, Setti Ramdane

Votes: 13,664

21. The Devil's Doorway (2018)

Unrated | 76 min | Horror

In the fall of 1960, Father Thomas Riley and Father John Thornton were sent by the Vatican to investigate a miraculous event in an Irish home for 'fallen women', only to uncover something much more horrific.

Director: Aislinn Clarke | Stars: Lalor Roddy, Ciaran Flynn, Helena Bereen, Lauren Coe

Votes: 4,021

22. Be My Cat: A Film for Anne (2015)

87 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

An aspiring filmmaker goes to shocking extremes to convince Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway to star in his film. First entry in Adrian Tofei's trilogy which includes We Put the World to Sleep and Pure.

Director: Adrian Tofei | Stars: Adrian Tofei, Sonia Teodoriu, Florentina Hariton, Alexandra Stroe

Votes: 2,383

23. The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)

G | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A documentary-style drama about the "Fouke Monster", a Bigfoot-type creature that has been sighted in and around Fouke, Arkansas since the 1950s.

Director: Charles B. Pierce | Stars: Willie E. Smith, John P. Hixon, Vern Stierman, Chuck Pierce Jr.

Votes: 3,637 | Gross: $0.34M

24. 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out (2003 TV Movie)

R | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After a failed bank robbery, two heavily armed men hold the Los Angeles Police Department at bay for 44 minutes.

Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: Michael Madsen, Ron Livingston, Ray Baker, Douglas Spain

Votes: 5,475

25. A Girl Like Her (2015)

PG-13 | 91 min | Drama

Jessica Burns enlists the help of her best friend, Brian, in order to document the relentless harassment she's received from her former friend, Avery Keller, one of South Brookdale High School's most popular students.

Director: Amy S. Weber | Stars: Lexi Ainsworth, Hunter King, Jimmy Bennett, Amy S. Weber

Votes: 7,386

26. Schulmädchen-Report 8. Teil - Was Eltern nie erfahren dürfen (1974)

88 min | Drama

A group of young co-eds who are away from home at boarding school share intimate stories about their "first-time" in a revealing session of show and tell. This 1970s late-night classic has ... See full summary »

Director: Ernst Hofbauer | Stars: Manuela Widman, Wolf Ackva, Judith Armbrüster, Sandra Atia

Votes: 270

27. M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters (2020)

98 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A distraught mother suspects her teenage son of plotting a school shooting, but when the system ignores her, she's forced to take matters into her own hands.

Director: Tucia Lyman | Stars: Sevan Aliksanian, Edward Asner, Cynthia Bell, Janet Ulrich Brooks

Votes: 2,243

28. Campus Pussycats (1973)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The sexual adventures of young German girls.

Director: Ernst Hofbauer | Stars: Marisa Feldy, Lis Kertelge, Ralph Martens, Marita Vogelsang

Votes: 286

29. Punishment Park (1971)

R | 91 min | Drama, Thriller

"Punishment Park" is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews's news coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a group of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-establishment types ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Patrick Boland, Kent Foreman, Carmen Argenziano, Luke Johnson

Votes: 7,633

30. The War Game (1966)

48 min | Drama, War

A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain.

Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Michael Aspel, Peter Graham, Dave Baldwin, Kathy Staff

Votes: 7,312

31. The Chinese (1967)

Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Michel Semeniako

Votes: 8,340 | Gross: $0.04M

32. Campus Swingers (1972)

R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A fake documentary about the sex lives of teenage girls.

Director: Ernst Hofbauer | Stars: Judith Armbrüster, Marina Blümel, Ulrike Butz, Walter Feuchtenberg

Votes: 411

33. Schoolgirls Growing Up (1972)

X | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After the first part of the legendary report dealing with the sexual behavior of underage schoolgirls, and the second part dealing with the psychological background, the third part is devoted to striking individual cases.

Directors: Walter Boos, Ernst Hofbauer | Stars: Friedrich von Thun, Werner Abrolat, Gerd Arnau, Johannes Buzalski

Votes: 484

34. Naughty Freshmen (1977)

R | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In the studio of a radio house, a housewife, a juvenile psychologist, a head study director and a detective inspector talk about the Youth Protection Act.

Director: Ernst Hofbauer | Stars: Helga Anders, Sandra Atia, Ulrich Beiger, Alexandra Bogojevic

Votes: 236

35. What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004)

Not Rated | 109 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama

A fictional photographer's quest to spiritually rediscover herself is interspersed with documentary footage of scientists and theologians discussing the philosophical aspects of quantum physics.

Directors: William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente | Stars: Marlee Matlin, Elaine Hendrix, John Ross Bowie, Robert Bailey Jr.

Votes: 13,848 | Gross: $10.94M

36. The Set-Up (1949)

Approved | 73 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Sport

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter

Votes: 10,083

37. Carnal Campus (1978)

83 min | Drama, Comedy, Romance

The framework action is this time the editorial meeting of a school newspaper. In five episodes, the film describes how school-age young women in search for (physical) love in precarious situations.

Director: Walter Boos | Stars: Willy Adler, Sascha Atzenbeck, Ulrich Beiger, Eva Berthold

Votes: 194

38. Amateur Porn Star Killer (2006)

X | 71 min | Crime, Horror

The unofficial story of a killer who kidnaps and kills three girls is told through the tale of his last victim, 'Amateur Porn Star Killer' is about a girl he picks up on the street and ... See full summary »

Director: Shane Ryan-Reid | Stars: Michiko Jimenez, Jan Gould, Shane Ryan-Reid

Votes: 1,276

39. Followed (II) (2018)

R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

To gain more subscribers, a controversial social media influencer stays at a cursed hotel to terrifying results.

Director: Antoine Le | Stars: Matthew Solomon, John Savage, Tim Drier, Sam Valentine

Votes: 1,942

40. Taxi (III) (2015)

Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Drama

Banned from making movies by the Iranian government, Jafar Panahi poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran.

Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Jafar Panahi, Nasrin Sotoudeh

Votes: 16,544 | Gross: $0.32M

41. Ghoul (2015)

Not Rated | 86 min | Horror, Thriller

Three American filmmakers become the targets of the evil spirit of the most violent cannibal in recorded history.

Director: Petr Jákl | Stars: Jennifer Armour, Alina Golovlyova, Jeremy Isabella, Paul S. Tracey

Votes: 2,238

42. The Devil and Father Amorth (2017)

Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary

Father Gabriele Amorth performs his ninth exorcism on an Italian woman.

Director: William Friedkin | Stars: William Friedkin, Jeffrey Burton Russell, Christina, Gabriele Amorth

Votes: 2,662 | Gross: $0.02M

43. The Beaches of Agnès (2008)

Not Rated | 112 min | Documentary, Biography

Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.

Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier, Vincent Fournier

Votes: 4,785 | Gross: $0.24M

44. Forgotten Silver (1995 TV Movie)

53 min | Comedy

The film deals with the career of a supposedly forgotten pioneer of international cinema, Colin McKenzie, who was allegedly born in rural New Zealand in 1888.

Directors: Costa Botes, Peter Jackson | Stars: Peter Jackson, Jeffrey Thomas, Costa Botes, Leonard Maltin

Votes: 6,317 | Gross: $0.03M

45. Duffle Bag Boy (2024)

Action, Adventure, Crime

Lost and forgotten, a homeless veteran hitchhikes his way into becoming an outlaw and goes to war with the kingpin of a criminal empire.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Alexander Raye Pimentel, James Anthony Perez, Cheryce Livingston, Don Tempesta

46. Meerkat Manor (2005–2008)

26 min | Documentary

This is a documentary drama series which follows a meerkat family in the Kalahari Desert, South Africa, called the Whiskers.

Stars: Bill Nighy, Flower the Meerkat, Mozart the Meerkat, Zaphod the Meerkat

Votes: 1,303

47. Lehrmädchen-Report (1972)

72 min | Drama, Comedy

In seven episodes, the sexual adventures of highly sexy schoolgirls are dramatically presented in their workplace.

Director: Ernst Hofbauer | Stars: Renate Heuer, Marina Blümel, Carmen Jäckel, Christa Jaeger

Votes: 94

48. Hot Hungry School Girls (1972)

X | 87 min | Comedy

Five vignettes around the theme of what can happen when teenagers' parents are away from home ... and then return unexpectedly.

Director: Franz Josef Gottlieb | Stars: Karin Götz, Mattis Böttcher, Enzi Fuchs, Mogens von Gadow

Votes: 153

49. Varsity Playthings (1975)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Schoolgirl Report 9 revolves around two carloads of kids who've just left a drinking party, engage in a high-speed race and predictably have a wreck. During their investigation, the police ... See full synopsis »

Director: Walter Boos | Stars: Judith Armbrüster, Sandra Atia, Ulrich Beiger, Astrid Boner

Votes: 220

50. Schoolgirl Report Vol. 13: Don't Forget Love During Sex (1980)

R | 86 min | Comedy, Drama

During rehearsals for a school performance, a group of students discusses whether sex and love belong together, and whether both together in a relationship is possible.

Director: Walter Boos | Stars: Katja Bienert, Manuela Kohlhofer, Sylvia Engelmann, Renate Langer

Votes: 237