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Plot Summary:
Timothy R. Heidecker is charged with 20 counts of 2nd degree murder. The deaths occurred at the electric sun desert music festival, where it is alleged Mr. Heidecker distributed deadly vape pens.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: mockumentary
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Undecided: The Movie (2016)
Plot Summary:
A camera crew follows two "undecided" voters along the actual campaign trail, and no Presidential candidate - on either side of the aisle - is spared.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, fake documentary
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Borderline (2016)
Plot Summary:
Mockumentary based in the border security office of fictional Northend Airport, a small provincial airport which may lack a little in glamour, but still must abide by the same rules as larger international airports.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, sitcom, parody
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The Office (2017)
Plot Summary:
Finnish adaption of the British TV series "The Office".
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, sitcom
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This Duckburg Life (2021)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to Disney Channel’s first-ever podcast, expanding on the DuckTales universe. Your host, Huey Duck, brings you stories from Duckburg- relatable tales like fighting an evil mind-reading robot or escaping an angry mob of Beagle Boys! These stories are brought to life with audio featuring your favorite DuckTales characters.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 12 min
Plot tags: mockumentary
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Hospital People (2017)
Plot Summary:
Set in a fictional hospital, this mockumentary follows the lives of porters, hospital radio DJs, chaplains and managers asking who exactly are all these people, and should any of them be remotely near a hospital?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: mockumentary
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Sherman's Showcase (2019)
Plot Summary:
Travel through time via music and comedy drawn from the forty-year library of the legendary, but fictional, musical variety show called “Sherman's Showcase.”.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: mockumentary
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Decoys (2020)
Plot Summary:
Five duck decoy carvers from Alberta pursue their dreams of winning the illustrious (their words) Northern Alberta Carving Cup.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: mockumentary
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I Hate Going to Work (2019)
Plot Summary:
A slice-of-life office drama about people who don't want to go to work that will resonate with everyday office workers.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: mockumentary
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Players (2022)
Plot Summary:
A pro League of Legends esports team pursues their first championship after years of close calls and heartache. To win it all, they will need their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie, and their 27-year-old veteran to put their egos aside and work together.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, spoof
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Paul Cruz: Latin Actor (2010)
Plot Summary:
An all American Latin Actor hilariously struggles to fit into the stereotypes of Hollywood while dealing with his alcoholic manager, sex addicted agent, dysfunctional family and bad dates. A satirical look at docuseries and reality shows.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, hispanic, mockumentary
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Scot Squad (2014)
Plot Summary:
Mockumentary comedy series following the life of scottish police officers from different areas of the force in a fly on the wall style.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, spoof, mockumentary
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The Festival (2005)
Plot Summary:
A verité-satire, The Festival is an ensemble comedy, told from the perspective of fictional IFC documentarian, Cookie. Cookie's subject: Rufus Marquez, a quixotic young director embarking on his virgin voyage to the prestigious Mountain United Film Festival (MUFF.) The Film is The Unreasonable Truth of Butterflies. The goal is a distribution deal. And the pressure is on. Rufus - unprepared for the excess of schmoozing activities - maneuvers an assortment of pretentious filmmakers, salivating distributors and smile-for-the-camera festival VIPs. The problem is, no one has seen his film - and the more no one sees it, the hotter the buzz becomes. As her bosses close in, Cookie loses her objectivity and Rufus loses his film - literally - as his masterpiece goes missing.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: mockumentary
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New Eden (2020)
Plot Summary:
Former cult leaders turned convicts, Katherine Wryfield and Grace Lee are interviewed about New Eden for the first time in a decade by two unseen documentarians. Using archival footage, interviews, and news clips, they begin to take us through the events that transformed New Eden from a feminist utopia into a drug addled, alien-worshipping disaster space…not to mention the murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: parody, spoof, mockumentary
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Trial & Error (2017)
Plot Summary:
A bright-eyed New York lawyer takes his first big case defending an eccentric poetry professor accused of murdering his wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, absurd, humorous, witty, funny, anthology, hilarious, spoof, surprise ending, parody
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Little Lunch (2015)
Plot Summary:
An ABC3 Australian mockumentary comedy series about fifteen highly significant minutes of a child's life: snack time in the primary school playground. From the creators of "Upper Middle Bogan.".
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 13 min
Plot tags: mockumentary
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Trailer Park Boys (2001)
Plot Summary:
Follow the booze-fueled misadventures of three longtime pals and petty serial criminals who run scams from their Nova Scotia trailer park.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, sitcom, humorous, witty, semi serious, funny, dark comedy, feel good, absurd, offbeat
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Chad and JT Go Deep (2022)
Plot Summary:
Best bros Chad and JT set out to spread positivity through community activism and chill vibes in this raucous prank comedy series.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, buddy comedy
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Family Tree (2013)
Plot Summary:
Having recently lost his job and his girlfriend, 30-year-old Tom Chadwick has a rather unsure sense of his own identity. But when he inherits a mysterious box of belongings from a great aunt he never met, Tom starts investigating his lineage and uncovers a whole world of unusual stories and characters, acquiring a growing sense of who he and his real family are.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, realistic, humorous, witty, not serious, dark comedy, offbeat, independent film, odd
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Operation Good Guys (1997)
Plot Summary:
Operation Good Guys is a British mockumentary, a fly-on-the-wall documentary series about an elite police unit's bid to snare one of Britain's most powerful crime lords. It was first screened on BBC Two from 1997 - 2000. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, it witnesses, on camera, the total breakdown, professionally and personally, of the Operation Good Guys team. Throughout the operation, The 'Good Guys' have an unfortunate habit of embroiling into their calamitous world some of the country's best-known celebrities, from actors and footballers, to TV presenters and even the odd ex-convict. It was created by Ray Burdis and co written by Ray Burdis, Hugo Blick and Dominic Anciano, although much of the dialogue was improvised by the actors. The series utilised the concept of a mock documentary capturing the truths of a workplace four years before the notion reached fame in The Office. However, this mockumentary style was watered down slightly when a laugh track was added for the second and third series. The series was awarded the Silver Rose for Best Sitcom and the Prix de la Presse, voted for by the International Press, at the Montreux Golden Rose Festival.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, mockumentary, sitcom, detective, offbeat, realistic, not serious, surreal
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Jury Duty (2023)
Plot Summary:
The inner workings of an American jury trial through the eyes of one particular juror, Ronald Gladden. Gladden is unaware the entire case is fake, everyone except him is an actor and everything that happens — inside the courtroom and out — is carefully planned.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 29 min
Plot tags: mockumentary
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People Like Us (1999)
Plot Summary:
People Like Us was a British radio and TV comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary written by John Morton, and starring Chris Langham as Roy Mallard, an inept interviewer. Originally a radio show for BBC Radio 4 in three series from 1995 to 1997, it was made into a television series for BBC Two that aired from September 1999 to June 2000.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, parody, spoof, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fake documentary
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Reservation Dogs (2021)
Plot Summary:
This comedy follows the exploits of four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma who steal, rob and save in order to get to the exotic, mysterious and faraway land of California.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, funny, anime, teen comedy
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Accused (2023)
Plot Summary:
In this crime anthology series, viewers discover how an ordinary person got caught up in an extraordinary situation, ultimately revealing how one wrong turn leads to another, until it’s too late to turn back. Told from the defendant’s point of view, each episode opens in a courtroom on the accused without knowing their crime or how they ended up on trial.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: anthology
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American Vandal (2017)
Plot Summary:
A true-crime satire that explores the aftermath of a costly high school prank that left twenty-seven faculty cars vandalized with phallic images.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 34 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, ironic, sitcom, funny, captivating, anime, spoof, parody, light
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Decker (2014)
Plot Summary:
The free world is in danger, and only one man can help. Jack Decker has sworn to defend America from foreign terrorists regardless of which spineless president is in charge. This is Decker: The Series.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, realistic, not serious, captivating, funny, spoof, cult classic, campy, cult film
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Reno 911! (2003)
Plot Summary:
Reno 911! is an American comedy television series on Comedy Central that ran from 2003 to 2009. It is a mockumentary-style parody of law enforcement documentary shows, specifically COPS, with comic actors playing the police officers. Most of the material is improvised, using a broad outline, and with minimal scripted material. The series spawned a film, Reno 911!: Miami, featuring the same cast. Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant and Kerri Kenney-Silver both starred in and are billed as creators of the series.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, parody, mockumentary, not serious, funny, detective, spoof, hilarious, offbeat
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Parks and Recreation (2009)
Plot Summary:
Hilarious ensemble comedy that follows Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, and her tireless efforts to make her quintessentially American town just a little bit more fun.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 281000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, sitcom, humorous, funny, talky, not serious, realistic, clever, hilarious, political
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Franklin & Bash (2011)
Plot Summary:
When they're not hanging out at their favorite hot dog stand pontificating on what they'd go through to enjoy a night with their favorite female celebrities, Jared Franklin and Peter Bash are chasing down their latest clients...sometimes literally. With business cards in hand, they're ready to nab a client within seconds after a car accident, arrest for solicitation or any other incident where their legal services may be needed. Once in the courtroom, they show their flair for the dramatic and the shocking.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, exciting, light, sincere, touching, captivating, suspenseful
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Welcome to Flatch (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a documentary crew sets out to explore the lives of residents in a small American town – their dreams, their concerns – they stumble upon the midwestern town of Flatch, which is made up of many eccentric personalities. It’s a place you want to visit and maybe even stay. If there was a decent motel. Which there is not.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Documentary Now! (2015)
Plot Summary:
Loving parodies of some of the world's best-known documentaries. Each episode is shot in a different style of documentary filmmaking, and honors some of the most important stories that didn't actually happen.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, parody, spoof, humorous, satirical, funny, light, captivating, entertaining, anthology