These documentary films were selected by the Moviepiq editorial team for watching with your partner. Popularity and critic scores don't factor in here. Emotional fit does.
The best documentary movies with your girlfriend from the 2010s based on a true story. Includes Won't You Be My Neighbor?, Free Solo, 13th and more - curated...
Watching a film together is one of the simplest and best things you can do. Pick something with enough texture that you'll want to pause it and argue about it.
The 2010s were defined by a wave of filmmakers who understood that the best genre films work on multiple levels simultaneously.
A great documentary finds the universal in the specific. One person's story becomes everyone's story.
An intimate look at America's favourite neighbor and the life, lessons, and legacy of Fred Rogers.
Follow Alex Honnold as he attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's El Capitan.
An in-depth look at the US prison system and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock musician Rodriguez.
A great documentary doesn't tell you what to think. It shows you something true and gets out of the way.
A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, and illegal, high-wire routine performed between the World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974.
When Bryan Fogel sets out to uncover the truth about doping in sports, a chance meeting with a Russian scientist transforms his project into a geopolitical thriller.
A documentary about the 1965-66 Indonesian mass killings, in which former paramilitary leaders re-enact their crimes.
True stories carry a different weight. Knowing it happened - knowing real people made these choices - changes how you watch.
The best documentaries don't resolve neatly. They give you something to carry. These do that.
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