Every mockumentary movie streaming on Netflix in the US right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against Netflix’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Netflix US
Directed by Bo Burnham
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBurnham dismantles the special's fourth wall, treating his isolation studio as both set and subject—a meta-commentary on performance itself.
Stuck in COVID-19 lockdown, US comedian and musician Bo Burnham attempts to stay sane and happy by writing, shooting and performing a one-man comedy special.
Directed by Bo Burnham
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a mockumentary; stand-up special with musical performance.
Combining his trademark wit and self-deprecating humor with original music, Bo Burnham offers up his unique twist on life in this stand-up special about life, death, sexuality, hypocrisy, mental illness and Pringles cans.
Directed by Stan Lathan
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a mockumentary; traditional stand-up special format.
Dave Chappelle takes on gun culture, the opioid crisis and the tidal wave of celebrity scandals in this defiant stand-up special.
Directed by Madeleine Parry
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a mockumentary; deconstructs comedy conventions through philosophical monologue rather than faux-documentary framing.
The Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby is taking an anti-comedy stance in her newest special.
Directed by John L. Spencer
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a mockumentary; conventional stand-up special despite satirical content.
In his first special in seven years, Ricky Gervais slings his trademark snark at celebrity, mortality and a society that takes everything personally.
Directed by Michael Drumm
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a mockumentary; standard stand-up special documentation.
The affable, towheaded comic demonstrates his hysterical brand of self-effacing comedy and deadpan delivery at two sold-out shows at Chicago's Vic Theater. It's OK to laugh at this pale white guy...'cause nobody's laughing at Jim Gaffigan harder than Jim Gaffigan!
Directed by Judah Friedlander
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFriedlander's deadpan persona interviews real New Yorkers, blurring performance and documentary observation brilliantly.
Deadpan comic and self-proclaimed world champion Judah Friedlander performs over several nights in New York, explaining why America is No. 1.
Directed by Michael John Warren
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCharacter actors fully inhabit delusional personas, breaking reality through commitment to false backstories and guest interactions.
Two delusional geriatrics reveal curious pasts, share a love of tuna and welcome a surprise guest in this filming of the popular Broadway comedy show.
Directed by Mike Binder
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a mockumentary; traditional stand-up special format.
Comedian Bill Burr sounds off on cancel culture, feminism, getting bad reviews from his wife and a life-changing epiphany during a fiery stand-up set.
Directed by Luis Alfaro
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a mockumentary; genuine documentary about a TV series.
A documentary on why 'Money Heist' sparked a wave of enthusiasm around the world for a lovable group of thieves and their professor.
Directed by Spike Jonze
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a mockumentary; Spike Jonze-directed stand-up special.
In a comedy special directed by Spike Jonze, Aziz Ansari shares deep personal insights and hilarious takes on wokeness, family and the social climate.
Directed by Larry Charles
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBorat's fake-documentary framing captures unsuspecting real Americans, weaponizing mockumentary's false authenticity for satirical exposure.
Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.
Directed by Kristian Mercado Figueroa
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a mockumentary; stand-up special with autobiographical storytelling.
Breakups. Therapy. Bangs. Taylor's gone through some stuff since her quarter-life crisis, and she spins her mental health journey into insightful comedy.
Directed by Al Campbell
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCunk's faux-expert interviews parody documentary pretension while spouting absurdist pseudo-wisdom with deadpan authority.
Pioneering documentary maker Philomena Cunk returns with her most ambitious quest to date: venturing right up the universe and everything to examine life and existence in an attempt to find out the point of it all. Along the way, she interrogates experts on subjects from the big bang to biology and art to artificial intelligence. Really get to the nub of it.
Directed by David Paul Meyer
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a mockumentary; traditional stand-up special format.
Trevor Noah gets out from behind the "Daily Show" desk and takes the stage for a stand-up special that touches on racism, immigration, camping and more.
Directed by Rhys Thomas
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMulaney stages children's variety show as nostalgic parody, treating juvenile format with mock-earnest production values.
John Mulaney and his kid pals tackle existential topics for all ages with catchy songs, comedy sketches and special guests in a nostalgic variety special.
Directed by Brian Klein
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a mockumentary; compilation stand-up special.
Nothing is off limits as Jimmy Carr serves up the most outrageous jokes from his stand-up career in a special that's not for the faint of heart.
Directed by Panayotis Pascot
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a mockumentary; stand-up special.
Those who still see him as an innocent teen TV correspondent are in for a surprise: French comic Panayotis Pascot is all grown up and ready to get real.
Directed by Richard Linklater
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRotoscoped animation blurs memory and fabrication, treating a fictionalized moon landing as lived documentary experience.
A man narrates stories of his life as a 10-year-old boy in 1969 Houston, weaving tales of nostalgia with a fantastical account of a journey to the moon.
Directed by Sydney Sibilia
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a mockumentary; documentary about actual historical events.
The rise and fall of the pirate mixtape empire of three brothers from Naples, Italy, during the '80s.
Directed by Mike Clattenburg
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTrailer Park Boys commits fully to found-footage realism, treating petty criminality with faux-documentary gravitas.
The boys get arrested for robbing an ATM machine and spend 18 months in jail, upon release they decide to pull off "The Big Dirty", a plan to steal a large amount of coins because they are untraceable and quit their life of crime forever.
Directed by Diego Pignataro
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a mockumentary; stand-up special with musical performance.
Brazilian YouTube sensation Whindersson Nunes revisits his humble beginnings and much more in a series of playful stories and peculiar songs.
Directed by Rik Reinholdtsen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a mockumentary; traditional stand-up special.
Sebastian Maniscalco brings an acerbically unique approach to peacocks on planes, life hacks, rich in-laws and life's annoyances in this comedy special.
Directed by Ulises Valencia
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a mockumentary; stand-up special.
Mexican stand-up comedian Franco Escamilla draws his jokes from real-life experiences -- and he's willing to do anything for new material. He's not afraid to make generalizations about how men bathe. But he is scared to talk to strangers. Especially at funerals.
Directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBlurs documentary and fiction through stylized reenactments, questioning whether corruption's 'truth' survives theatrical treatment.
This documentary walks the line between fact and fiction, delving into corruption in the Mexican police through the experiences of two officers.
Directed by Shannon Hartman
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a mockumentary; stand-up special.
Fedoras, mom's underpants, and puppy love all make Jim Norton's s**t list in 'Mouthful of Shame'.
Directed by Akiva Schaffer
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Lonely Island constructs fake '80s sports mythology through elaborate period-accurate mockumentary aesthetics.
The Lonely Island spoofs Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire in this visual rap album set in the Bash Brothers' 1980s heyday.
Directed by Troy Miller
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a mockumentary; ventriloquism performance special.
The ventriloquist, Jeff Dunham, taped his second Netflix special in his hometown of Dallas, TX in the American Airlines Center. He returns with his normal cast of characters including Walter, Bubba J, Peanut, José Jalapeño on a Stick, Achmed the Dead Terrorist, and one of his newest additions Larry, a high strung, chain-smoking, on-again, off-again personal adviser to the President.
Directed by Gus Van Sant
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGail's obsessive news-anchor ambition destroys through faux-authentic TV documentary moments embedded in dramatic narrative.
Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.
Directed by Alice Mathias
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBlack Mirror creators parody 2020 as catastrophic year through fake-news segments and mock expert interviews.
2020: A year so [insert adjective of choice here], even the creators of Black Mirror couldn't make it up… but that doesn't mean they don't have a little something to add. This comedy event that tells the story of the dreadful year that was — and perhaps still is? The documentary-style special weaves together some of the world's most (fictitious) renowned voices with real-life archival footage.
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