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15 Movies Like Why Are We Creative?

Loved Why Are We Creative?? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

9to5: Days in Porn
#1

9to5: Days in Porn

9to5 - Days in Porn focuses on the people behind a controversial and multi-billion dollar industry "The Adult Entertainment industry". It depicts their stories, each one different, unadorned and authentic, without glorification or prejudice. It delivers deep insight into their personal lives - from glamorous to grotesque - strange, fascinating, offensive, absurd and sometimes funny moments all at once.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Why Are We Creative?.

Poldi
#2

Poldi

Footballer, entrepreneur, fan favorite and true community hero — Lukas Podolski reflects on his journey and what comes next in this intimate documentary.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Why Are We Creative?.

For Sama
#3

For Sama

A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Why Are We Creative?.

Room 237
#4

Room 237

A subjective documentary that explores various theories about hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick's classic film The Shining. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice over, film clips, animation and dramatic reenactments.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Why Are We Creative?.

Trainer!
#5

Trainer!

This behind-the-scenes sports documentary follows the careers of three young German professional soccer coaches over the course of a single season.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Why Are We Creative?.

Blue Eyed
#6

Blue Eyed

In BLUE-EYED, we join a group of 40 teachers, police, school administrators and social workers in Kansas City - blacks, Hispanics, whites, women and men. The blue-eyed members are subjected to pseudo-scientific explanations of their inferiority, culturally biased IQ tests and blatant discrimination. In just a few hours under Ms. Elliott's withering regime, we watch grown professionals become despondent and distracted, stumbling over the simplest commands.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Why Are We Creative?.

Animal Love
#7

Animal Love

In conurbations where hundreds of thousands live alongside one another, in the era of a highly technological society, in which communication has never played such a significant role, man has become lonely. Disappointed by his fellow human beings, he turns to animals. Dogs and other domestic animals serve him as companions, life partners, cuddly objects and bedfellows.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Why Are We Creative?.

Speed: In Search of Lost Time
#8

Speed: In Search of Lost Time

It’s a paradox. Never before in history we have worked more efficiently. Never before we have saved time with more sophisticated technologies. Anyway, nearly all of us are feeling an increasing pressure of time. It seems that the same technology that has been invented to make our life better and easier, is now enslaving us. Why?

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Why Are We Creative?.

Paragraph 175
#9

Paragraph 175

During the Nazi regime, there was widespread persecution of homosexual men, which started in 1871 with the Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code. Thousands were murdered in concentration camps. This powerful and disturbing documentary, narrated by Rupert Everett, presents for the first time the largely untold testimonies of some of those who survived.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Why Are We Creative?.

Ein Sommer in Italien - WM 1990
#10

Ein Sommer in Italien - WM 1990

Documentary from Nadja Kölling and Vanessa Nöcker about the soccer world championship 1990 in Italy.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Why Are We Creative?.

Death Mills
#11

Death Mills

Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Why Are We Creative?.

Pianomania
#12

Pianomania

Pianomania takes the audience on a humorous journey through the secret world of sound and accompanies Stefan Knüpfer in his extraordinary work with the greatest pianists in the world. To select the instrument that corresponds to the vision of the virtuoso, according it to his desire and accompany him until he goes on stage, Stefan Knüpfer has developed nerves of steel, a boundless passion and above ability to translate words into sounds.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Why Are We Creative?.

Dragon Girls
#13

Dragon Girls

The documentary film Dragon Girls tells the story of three young Chinese girls training to become Kung Fu fighters, far away from their families, at the largest Kung Fu school in China. These girls, in a crowd of 26,000 children, are under constant pressure to conform to the norms and structures. They are turned into fighting robots and yet, if you look behind the curtain, you see children with dreams and aspirations. It show the controversial world of selection of the fittest in a totalitarian system.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Why Are We Creative?.

Freedom to Love
#14

Freedom to Love

A sex education film dedicated to all forms of human sexuality.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Why Are We Creative?.

The Specialist
#15

The Specialist

Composed exclusively of the footage recorded by Leo Hurwitz during the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961, A Specialist is a courtroom drama painting the portait of a zealous bureaucrat who has immense respect for the Law and hierarchy, a police official responsible for the elimination of several million people, a modern criminal.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Why Are We Creative?.