Weird and Obscure Documentaries Suggestion Thread

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I haven't seen it yet and I wouldn't call it obscure because it aired in HBO 2 years ago. I heard it's good and cults are always interesting.

Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God is a documentary about the life and death of Amy Carlson, the leader of Love Has Won. She believed that she was God, a 19-billion-year-old being, and a reincarnation of Jesus Christ, and that she could heal people with cancer "with the power of love". Her group has been described as a cult and Carlson as a cult leader by many, including ex-members and media outlets.

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I haven't seen it yet and I wouldn't call it obscure because it aired in HBO 2 years ago. I heard it's good and cults are always interesting.

Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God is a documentary about the life and death of Amy Carlson, the leader of Love Has Won. She believed that she was God, a 19-billion-year-old being, and a reincarnation of Jesus Christ, and that she could heal people with cancer "with the power of love". Her group has been described as a cult and Carlson as a cult leader by many, including ex-members and media outlets.

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that doc has a wild turn, without spoiling it
 
Black Metal Veins:

Pervert filmmaker Lucifer Valentine gathers a bunch of heroin addicted black metal musicians to film one of his filthy barely disguised pornos and decides it is more interesting to film them hanging out and doing drugs than making the movie. A very good look at the dregs of society.

 
I haven't seen it yet and I wouldn't call it obscure because it aired in HBO 2 years ago. I heard it's good and cults are always interesting.

Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God is a documentary about the life and death of Amy Carlson, the leader of Love Has Won. She believed that she was God, a 19-billion-year-old being, and a reincarnation of Jesus Christ, and that she could heal people with cancer "with the power of love". Her group has been described as a cult and Carlson as a cult leader by many, including ex-members and media outlets.

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We had a thread on them back before she died. Remember there were some raids on her livestreams way back then
 
There was one that came out a few years back and I wish I could remember the name of it. The plot is this girl is bron into a Mormon family, the family ends up under the spell of this Svengali type who kidnaps the 12 year girl, the family is more or less okay with it, but she is returned and the Svengali not only nails the mom but the dad. 40 years later the girl is still kind of okay with the whole thing despite knowing she really was groomed by the Svengali and her parents didn't protect her at all.
 
The Final Member (2012)
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The story of a man looking to add a human schlong to his penis museum collection. It sounds schlocky and terrible but it was actually a very well made documentary with far more twists and turns than I expected. I expected a kind of shock-doc but it turned out to just be interesting in its own right. Full documentary here

The Bridge (2006)
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A documentary that covers suicides at the Golden Gate bridge over the span of a year, including interviews with the family of those that died. Very somber, a bit macabre, but very interesting.
 
Conspiracy of Silence (1994). The surviving rough cut of an investigation related to the Franklin child prostitution ring, initially centred on Larry E. King Jr. but sprawling to uncover a bigger circle of influence. Lore has it that it was pulled last minute from airing and survived because it was sent to John De Camp, who represented some of the victims.

Sound of Torture (2013). Framed through Meron Stefanos' show, we follow two cases of the refugee kidnapping crisis of Sinai.

Till Madness Do Us Part (2013). In China, hell is the others. No explicit horrid acts, just 4 hours of painful indifference.

Children Underground (2001). Coming of age of orphaned children in post-communism Bucharest. Get to see children fight, play, huff paint and maybe get a better life.

The Man Who Knew Too Much (2021). Colin Wallace was a pioneer of fake news by slandering Irish Republicans, he was later incarcerated for manslaughter. Most people believe he was framed after refusing to work in the Clockwork Orange plot and his attempt to shed light in the Kincora Boy's Home scandal.

Cutting Edge's The Child Sex Trade (2003). Liviu Tipurita's close look to the sex trafficking of minors in Romania. You will see some common themes with Children Underground but this one has a 'father' confronting the director for not fucking his son and a meeting with a bong discussing his website selling boys. As long as I'm alive, I want the world to know Tom Peters is a nonce and he is either free or dead.

The Wethouse (2002). An intimate and tender portrayal of alcoholics at a shelter, most of them British military veterans and all of them dead soon after the documentary was released. Director Penny Woolcock's epilogue about it is mandatory reading.
 
There was one that came out a few years back and I wish I could remember the name of it. The plot is this girl is bron into a Mormon family, the family ends up under the spell of this Svengali type who kidnaps the 12 year girl, the family is more or less okay with it, but she is returned and the Svengali not only nails the mom but the dad. 40 years later the girl is still kind of okay with the whole thing despite knowing she really was groomed by the Svengali and her parents didn't protect her at all.
Abducted in plain sight. A Netflix doc.

Unknown number is another good Netflix doc with a wild twist.
 
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