Movies Like Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) (2023)

Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) is a 2023 documentary, music film from Anton Corbijn with a MovieMagicScore of 7.5/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Rivers and Tides and Basquiat.

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Rivers and Tides

2001

Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature.

7.3

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Basquiat

1996

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.

6.6

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Shoah

1985

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.

8.2

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Lumière!

2016

A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.

8.0

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General Magic

2019

A tale of how the great vision and epic failure of General Magic, the "greatest dead company in Silicon Valley", changed the lives of billions.

7.2

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JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

2021

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which took place in Dallas on November 22, 1963.

7.0

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Einstein and the Bomb

2024

What happened after Einstein fled Nazi Germany? Using archival footage and his own words, this docudrama dives into the mind of a tortured genius.

6.1

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Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams

2018

An in-depth and intimate portrait of Coldplay's spectacular rise from the backrooms of Camden pubs to selling out stadiums across the planet. At the heart of the story is the band's unshakeable brotherhood which has endured through many highs and lows.

7.8

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Wandering Stars

2019

This film follows the making of Nekfeu's 3rd album, between Paris, Japan, Greece and the United States.

7.4

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#10

Global Metal

2008

In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West's most maligned musical genre - heavy metal - has impacted the world's cultures beyond Europe and North America. The film follows metal fan and anthropologist Sam Dunn on a whirlwind journey through Asia, South America and the Middle East as he explores the underbelly of the world's emerging extreme music scenes; from Indonesian death metal to Chinese black metal to Iranian thrash metal. GLOBAL METAL reveals a worldwide community of metalheads who aren't just absorbing metal from the West - they're transforming it - creating a new form of cultural expression in societies dominated by conflict, corruption and mass-consumerism.

7.3

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#11

a-ha: The Movie

2021

When "Take On Me" reached nr 1 on Billboard in the US in 1985, the dream came true. Or did it? The band was not prepared for what the success could bring, including tension between the three band members.

6.8

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#12

This Is It

2009

A compilation of interviews, rehearsals and backstage footage of Michael Jackson as he prepared for his series of sold-out shows in London.

7.3

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#13

Artifact

2012

Follow 30 Seconds to Mars as they record their latest album, This Is War, and their battle against record label EMI.

7.4

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#14

Be Here to Love Me

2004

Chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of Townes Van Zandt.

7.1

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#15

Little Richard: I Am Everything

2023

The story of the black, gay origins of rock n' roll. It explodes the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richard's complicated inner world, the film unspools the icon's life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions.

6.4

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#16

Dreamgirls

2006

A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.

6.7

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#17

Midas Man

2024

When Brian Epstein set foot in the Cavern Club in November 1961 to watch The Beatles perform, he saw something no one else could – a glimmer of gold. Sharply dressed and well-spoken, Brian was hardly the most obvious radical – but being Jewish, closeted and having grown up as an outsider who had failed at pretty much everything, he was a 26-year old with something to prove and who wanted to tear up the rulebook.

6.3

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#18

The Girl Can't Help It

1956

A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks.

6.2

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#19

Very Nice, Very Nice

1961

Arthur Lipsett's first film is an avant-garde blend of photography and sound. It looks behind the business-as-usual face we put on life and shows anxieties we want to forget. It is made of dozens of pictures that seem familiar, with fragments of speech heard in passing and, between times, a voice saying, "Very nice, very nice." The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

5.9

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#20

Urbanized

2011

A documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.

7.4

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Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)?

The top films similar to Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) by MovieMagicScore are Rivers and Tides (7.3), Basquiat (6.6), Shoah (8.2). Each shares documentary/music themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) worth watching?

Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.5/10 from 35 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)?

Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) (2023) is a documentary, music film directed by Anton Corbijn, starring Aubrey Powell, Storm Thorgerson, Noel Gallagher.

Where can I find more recommendations like Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)?

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About movies like Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

This ranked list pairs Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) (2023), a documentary and music film from Anton Corbijn, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Aubrey Powell 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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