Movies Like Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2017)

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds is a 2017 documentary film from Alexis Bloom with a MovieMagicScore of 7.5/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with The Lost Daughter and Traffic.

Documentary

The Lost Daughter

2021

A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.

6.5

MagicScore

Traffic

2000

An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.

7.1

MagicScore

The Frighteners

1996

Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.

6.9

MagicScore

Under the Shadow

2016

After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor suggests that the missile was cursed and might be carrying malevolent Middle-Eastern spirits. She becomes convinced a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess her daughter Dorsa, and she has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself.

6.5

MagicScore

Little Voice

1998

After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedroom listening to her father's collection of old records of Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe and various other famous female singers. But at night time, LV sings, imitating these great singers with surprising accuracy. One night she is overheard by one of her mother's boyfriends, who happens to be a talent agent. He manages to convince her that her talent is special and arranges for her to perform at the local night club, but several problems arise.

6.5

MagicScore

A Winter to Remember

2016

When we first meet Lucia she is withdrawn and isolated from her friends and family, dealing with anxiety attacks and a legion of secrets. But when she meets bright and carefree Olivia, Lucia seizes the opportunity to break out of her shell and live the life she was afraid to admit she wanted.

6.3

MagicScore

Macabre

1958

After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor's young daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, leaving him with mere hours to find and rescue her.

6.0

MagicScore

He's Out There

2018

On vacation at a remote lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare conceived by a psychopath.

5.9

MagicScore

The Silver Brumby

1993

A mother tells her daughter a fable about the prince of the brumbies, brumby being a term for the feral horses of Australia, who must find its place among its kind, while one man makes it his mission to capture it and tame it. Australian adaptation of Elyne Mitchell's "The silver Brumby".

5.7

MagicScore

#10

The Monster

2016

A mother and her 10-year old daughter are trapped in a forest. There is something in this forest. Something unlike anything they have heard before. Something that lurks in the darkness and it’s coming after them.

5.5

MagicScore

#11

Mothers and Daughters

2016

Interwoven stories of what it is to be a mom seen through the lens of photographer Rigby Gray.

5.3

MagicScore

#12

Russian Lolita

2007

Very loosely based on Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’, this is the story of a writer renting a room at a single mother’s house that starts an affair with the daughter of her.

5.2

MagicScore

#13

All Nighter

2017

When a globe-trotting, workaholic father trying to visit his daughter on a last minute layover in Los Angeles discovers that she’s disappeared, he forces her awkward, nervous ex-boyfriend, still nursing a broken heart, to help him find her over the course of one increasingly crazy night.

5.7

MagicScore

#14

Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

2018

A funny, intimate and heartbreaking portrait of one of the world’s most beloved and inventive comedians, Robin Williams, told largely through his own words. Celebrates what he brought to comedy and to the culture at large, from the wild days of late-1970s L.A. to his death in 2014.

7.9

MagicScore

#15

Kim Ji-young, Born 1982

2019

Kim Ji-young, an ordinary woman in her 30s, suddenly shows signs of being inhabited by other women from her life, past and present.

7.4

MagicScore

#16

Till

2022

The true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.

7.3

MagicScore

#17

Fish Tank

2009

Fifteen-year-old Mia is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her. When she meets her party-girl mother’s charming new boyfriend Connor, she is amazed to find he returns her attention, and believes he might help her start to make sense of her life.

6.9

MagicScore

#18

Reel Injun

2010

The evolution of the depiction of the various Native American peoples in cinema, from the silent era to the present day: how their image on the screen has changed the way to understand their history and culture.

7.0

MagicScore

#19

The Seven Ravens

2015

The story of a young woman who takes it upon herself to save her brothers and rid them of a curse which they were put under by their mother.

6.8

MagicScore

#20

An Open Secret

2014

An investigation into accusations of teenagers being sexually abused within the film industry.

6.9

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds?

The top films similar to Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds by MovieMagicScore are The Lost Daughter (6.5), Traffic (7.1), The Frighteners (6.9). Each shares documentary themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds worth watching?

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.5/10 from 79 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds?

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2017) is a documentary film directed by Alexis Bloom, starring Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Todd Fisher.

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This ranked list pairs Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2017), a documentary film from Alexis Bloom, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Carrie Fisher take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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