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15 films tagged found footage
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2012 · Science fiction
Three high-school boys climb down a hole in a field and come out able to move things with their minds, and at first they mostly mess about. Shot as if one of them is filming the whole time.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2026 · Comedy
Three former male models, well past their modelling years, decide to start a band aimed at grown women, and go off to singing and dancing lessons to get there. Shot as a mockumentary, with the three of them playing versions of themselves.
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2008 · Science fiction
A going-away party in Manhattan is cut short by something very large coming ashore, and the whole night is filmed on one guest's camcorder. Short, shaky and more or less in real time.
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Little-known
2014 · Horror
A videographer answers an online ad and drives out to a cabin to film a stranger for a day, for a fee. It is all handheld, just the two of them, and awkward from the first minute.
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2009 · Science fiction
Twenty years after an alien ship stalls above Johannesburg, its passengers live in a fenced-off slum and a company man is sent in to hand out eviction notices. It starts as a fake documentary and turns into a chase with a lot of gunfire.
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2023 · Horror
A struggling late-night host books a Halloween special in 1977 with a parapsychologist and the girl she says came out of a satanic cult. Presented as the tape of that broadcast, near enough in real time.
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Little-known
2016 · Comedy
A documentary crew follows a hugely famous pop star through the release of his second solo album, as everything around him starts to wobble. A fake documentary, jokes packed tight, and a lot of full songs.
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Little-known
2007 · Horror
A late-night TV reporter and her cameraman follow a fire crew into a Barcelona apartment block, and the building is sealed off with them inside. Shot entirely as camera footage, in one place, and it is short.
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Little-known
2023 · Comedy
The staff of a shabby theatre camp in upstate New York try to keep the place open for one more summer while putting on an original musical. Shot like a documentary, and mostly improvised jokes.
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2014 · Comedy
A documentary crew films four vampires who share a flat in Wellington and argue about the dishes, the rent and the chores rota. It is a fake documentary, short, and one joke after another.
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Little-known
2013 · Science fiction
A privately funded crew goes to a moon of Jupiter to look for life under the ice, told through the ship's own cameras. Small, procedural, and assembled out of order.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2020 · Horror
Six friends in lockdown hold a seance over a video call and something comes through. Fifty-seven minutes, entirely inside the call window.
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2007 · Horror
A couple set up a camera in their bedroom to record what has been happening at night. Mostly a static shot of two people asleep.
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2012 · Horror
A true-crime writer moves his family into the house where the murders happened, and finds a box of home movies in the attic. Dark rooms and a projector.
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1999 · Horror
Three students go into the Maryland woods to make a documentary about a local legend, and get lost. Handheld, arguing, and mostly at night.
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