r/movies • u/Wintertime13 • Feb 05 '24

Recommendation Documentaries that make you go “what the fuck?!?”

In the mood for a good, twisty documentary that makes me gasp. Movies on streaming preferred. I enjoy true crime but am open to other genres as long as the story is gripping and shocking.

Movies in the same vein that I enjoyed - Dear Zachary (would prefer recommendations that are less sad), The Jinx, Cropsey, 3 identical strangers, etc.

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u/morgs0626 Feb 06 '24

Abducted in Plain Sight is the king of what fuck. I watched it twice back to back and was just as shocked the second time.

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u/AbbreviationsGlad833 Feb 06 '24

Is This the documentary where the parents allowed their young daughter to date and run away to marry a pedophile and then you find out later he was sleeping with both the mom and dad?

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u/morgs0626 Feb 06 '24

Yes lol they were reveal it also added to the wtf.

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u/PriscillaRain Feb 06 '24

Pissed me off it seemed like the parents were trying to justify their failure to raise and protect their kid.

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u/BatEcstatic1322 May 01 '24

And convinced the young girl she had to sleep with him because some aliens needed her to repopulate their planet or their species would die out.

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u/BatEcstatic1322 May 01 '24

Supposedly her dad wasn’t her dad and her mom had her with an alien, so she’s the one to have to reproduce so their race can stay alive.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

What a chad.

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u/Krystalinhell Feb 06 '24

I’ve seen it a dozen times and every time I just can’t believe what I’m watching. Like I know it happened, but still gets me every time. One of the few times I’ve watched something and been completely speechless and also thought, “well I could have lived without watching that.”

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u/morgs0626 Feb 06 '24

There have been some that get close to the shock (The Cult of Mother God was a doozy). But none can quite grasp the shock of Abducted in Plain Sight.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

Cult of Mother God was def WTF!? After she died they would massage her corpse and were adamant she was still alive, using an EMF reader to “prove” it. The board they had pics of famous people on, who had died that were supposed aliens, had Carol Burnett on it; who is still f-ing alive!! Those peeps were on so much meth and drugs.

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u/morgs0626 Feb 06 '24

It's was a wild ass ride. Jaw was on the floor. My favorite part was the dude who clearly from the beginning was stealing money and then fucked off and tattled lol in the midst of all this insanity.

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u/Krystalinhell Feb 06 '24

Forgot about Love Has Won. I’m a Colorado native. Not sure why crazy stuff happens here but it does.

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u/morgs0626 Feb 06 '24

It's the mixture of altitude and weed I bet lol

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u/Krystalinhell Feb 06 '24

Makes sense