Movies Like Strong Island (2017)

Strong Island is a 2017 documentary film from Yance Ford with a MovieMagicScore of 6.4/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Sabrina and Margot at the Wedding.

Documentary

Sabrina

1995

Sabrina Fairchild, a chauffeur's daughter, grew up at the Long Island estate of the wealthy Larrabee family enchanted with their sparkling world of privilege and wealth, but she's especially enamored of younger son David, a charming playboy. After the once plain Sabrina returns from a sojourn in Paris transformed into a glamorous young woman, she at long last catches David's eye. In a calculated effort to manipulate David away from her and into a more financially advantageous marriage, formidable older brother Linus devises a plan to keep them apart.

6.2

MagicScore

Margot at the Wedding

2007

Margot Zeller is a short story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of her estranged sister Pauline's wedding to unemployed musician/artist/depressive Malcolm at the family seaside home, Margot shows up unexpectedly to rekindle the sisterly bond and offer her own brand of support. What ensues is a nakedly honest and subversively funny look at family dynamics.

5.8

MagicScore

The Amityville Horror

2005

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

6.1

MagicScore

Murder on a Sunday Morning

2001

2001 French documentary about the murder trial of a 15 year old black teen accused of murder in Jacksonville, Florida. Winner of 2002 Academy Award for Best Documentary.

7.4

MagicScore

The Menendez Brothers

2024

Serving life in prison for murdering their parents, Lyle and Erik Menendez speak out in this documentary explaining the shocking crime and ensuing trials.

7.4

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American Murder: The Family Next Door

2020

Using raw, firsthand footage, this documentary examines the disappearance of Shanann Watts and her children, and the terrible events that followed.

7.3

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Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case

2023

July 1, 2000. British 21-year-old Lucie Blackman goes missing in Tokyo, sparking an international investigation — and an unyielding quest for justice.

7.0

MagicScore

Team Foxcatcher

2016

With never-before seen home video, this film recounts the paranoid downward spiral of John E. du Pont and the murder of Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz.

7.0

MagicScore

Amanda Knox

2016

This gripping, atmospheric documentary recounts the infamous trial, conviction and eventual acquittal of Seattle native Amanda Knox for the 2007 murder of a British exchange student in Italy.

6.6

MagicScore

#10

Into the Deep: The Submarine Murder Case

2020

In 2016, a young Austrialian filmmaker began documenting amateur inventor Peter Madsen. One year in, Madsen brutally murdered Kim Wall aboard his homemade submarine. An unprecedented revelation of a killer and the journey his young helpers take as they reckon with their own complicity and prepare to testify.

6.5

MagicScore

#11

Murder by the Coast

2021

In 1999, teen Rocío Wanninkhof is murdered. Her mother's ex-partner, Dolores Vázquez, is suspected. Did she do it? A second victim reveals the truth.

6.3

MagicScore

#12

Why Did You Kill Me?

2021

The line between justice and revenge blurs when a devastated family uses social media to track down the people who killed 24-year-old Crystal Theobald.

5.9

MagicScore

#13

The Jeffrey Dahmer Files

2013

An experimental documentary film that uses archival footage, interviews, and fictionalised scenarios to tell the story of the people around Jeffrey Dahmer during the summer of his arrest in 1991.

5.5

MagicScore

#14

25 Years of Innocence

2020

Tomasz Komenda was 23 years old when his normal life was brutally interrupted. Overnight he was arrested, thrown into prison and charged with murder. Subsequent expert opinions confirmed his participation in the crime, and any evidence was against him. For nearly two decades in prison, he was beaten, intimidated, humiliated and on his own. Finally, after 18 years of imprisonment, prosecutors and a policeman appeared on his way, who decided to discover the truth behind the mysterious case of the detainee.

7.7

MagicScore

#15

In Cold Blood

1967

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.

7.5

MagicScore

#16

Killers of the Flower Moon

2023

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.

7.4

MagicScore

#17

An American Crime

2007

The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.

7.3

MagicScore

#18

A Killer Among Friends

1992

A teenage girl disappears and later turns up drowned, with a log across her back. Three years later, a former friend comes forward with some answers.

7.2

MagicScore

#19

The Good Nurse

2022

Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth.

6.9

MagicScore

#20

Dillinger

1973

After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.

6.5

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Strong Island?

The top films similar to Strong Island by MovieMagicScore are Sabrina (6.2), Margot at the Wedding (5.8), The Amityville Horror (6.1). Each shares documentary themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Strong Island worth watching?

Strong Island holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.4/10 from 94 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Strong Island?

Strong Island (2017) is a documentary film directed by Yance Ford, starring Yance Ford, Harvey Walker, Kevin Myers.

Where can I find more recommendations like Strong Island?

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About movies like Strong Island

This ranked list pairs Strong Island (2017), a documentary film from Yance Ford, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Yance Ford 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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