Recommendation Request: Weird/Shocking Documentaries update

2 weeks ago 30

A few months back, I asked for recommendations on weird/shocking documentaries based on my watchlist. Since then, I took a bunch of recommendations and have updated my list (below) including documentaries that I did not enjoy. Now I'm looking for more recs, please!

Most of what I enjoy falls under the "true crime" umbrella, but I'm not interested in documentaries that glorify the perpetrators, are overly sensationalized/exploitative, or involve unsolved cases.

S -TIER

  • [ ] The Jinx
  • [ ] The Imposter
  • [ ] The Pharmacist
  • [ ] Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults
  • [ ] Wild Wild Country
  • [ ] Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter
  • [ ] Crazy Love
  • [ ] Tickled
  • [ ] The Staircase
  • [ ] Dear Zachary
  • [ ] Mind Over Murder
  • [ ] Fox Hollow Murders
  • [ ] How To Fix A Drug Scandal
  • [ ] Exhibit A
  • [ ] Athlete A
  • [ ] Paul T Goldman
  • [ ] Abducted in Plain Sight
  • [ ] The Girl In The Picture
  • [ ] Till Murder Do Us Part: Soering v. Haysom
  • [ ] Anatomy of Lies
  • [ ] Tell Them You Love Me
  • [ ] Telemarketers
  • [ ] Life With Murder
  • [ ] Going Clear
  • [ ] Jesus Camp
  • [ ] The Confessions of Thomas Quick

A-TIER

  • [ ] Tabloid
  • [ ] The Confession Killer
  • [ ] Great Photo, Lovely Life
  • [ ] Capturing the Friedmans
  • [ ] There’s Something Wrong With Aunt Diane
  • [ ] American Murder: Family Next Door
  • [ ] I Love You, Now Die
  • [ ] Ren Faire
  • [ ] Savior Complex
  • [ ] American Nightmare
  • [ ] Mommy Dead and Dearest
  • [ ] I’ll Be Gone In The Dark
  • [ ] Amanda Knox
  • [ ] Evil Genius
  • [ ] The Mortician
  • [ ] Making a Murderer
  • [ ] The Queen of Versailles
  • [ ] Tiger King
  • [ ] Don’t Fuck With Cats
  • [ ] 30 for 30: The Price of Gold
  • [ ] Stolen Youth (Sarah Lawrence Cult)
  • [ ] Don’t Pick Up The Phone
  • [ ] The Contestant
  • [ ] Love Has Won: The Cult Of Mother God
  • [ ] Devil In The Family (Ruby Franke)
  • [ ] Sins Of Our Mother (Lori Daybell)
  • [ ] Unknown Number (high school catfish)
  • [ ] Tales Of The Grim Sleeper
  • [ ] Con Mum

B-TIER

  • [ ] Witness (Kitty Genovese)
  • [ ] Who Killed Robert Wone?
  • [ ] Who Took Johnny? (Gotsch)
  • [ ] Burden Of Proof
  • [ ] Take Care of Maya
  • [ ] The Rachel Divide
  • [ ] The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping
  • [ ] Accused: Hampden Hoax
  • [ ] Murdaugh: Southern Scandal
  • [ ] Tell Me Who I Am
  • [ ] Fyre Fest
  • [ ] Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey
  • [ ] The Confession Tapes
  • [ ] Sophie: A Murder In West Cork
  • [ ] Our Father
  • [ ] The Man With 1000 Kids
  • [ ] Murder Among The Mormons
  • [ ] Allen v. Farrow
  • [ ] Leaving Neverland
  • [ ] The Keepers
  • [ ] Surviving R. Kelly
  • [ ] Blackfish
  • [ ] The Woman Who Wasn’t There
  • [ ] Three Identical Strangers
  • [ ] Chimp Crazy
  • [ ] The Curious Case of Natalia Grace
  • [ ] Mister Organ
  • [ ] Voyeur
  • [ ] An Update On Our Family (Myka Stauffer)
  • [ ] The Long Shot
  • [ ] The Trials of Gabrielides Fernandez
  • [ ] The Disappearance of Madeline McCann
  • [ ] Beware The Slenderman
  • [ ] Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist
  • [ ] Exit Through the Gift Shop
  • [ ] Zoo
  • [ ] Killer Sally
  • [ ] Running With The Devil
  • [ ] The Most Dangerous Animal Of All: Searching For My Father & Finding The Zodiac Killer
  • [ ] Sweet Bobby
  • [ ] Little Miss Innocent
  • [ ] TallHotBlonde
  • [ ] Under The Sun
  • [ ] MarWenCol
  • [ ] The Family I Had
  • [ ] The Killer Nanny
  • [ ] No One Saw A Thing
  • [ ] The Kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart
  • [ ] The Abduction of Jaycee Dugard
  • [ ] Natascha Kampuch: The Whole Story

DISLIKED

NOTE: For most of these documentaries, I found their subject matter or underlying stories interesting, but I disliked the documentary itself (either for style, pacing, bias, etc.).

  • [ ] The Case Of: Jonbenét Ramsey
  • [ ] Cold Case: Who Killed Jonbenét Ramsey
  • [ ] Casting Jonbenét
  • [ ] Dead Asleep
  • [ ] They Called Him Mostly Harmless
  • [ ] Sherri Pappini: Caught In The Lie
  • [ ] Supersize Me
  • [ ] Audrey and Daisy
  • [ ] House of Hammer
  • [ ] Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez
  • [ ] Why did you kill me?
  • [ ] The Tinder Swindler
  • [ ] Who Killed Garret Philips
  • [ ] Breath of Fire
  • [ ] What Jennifer Did
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