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Best Mockumentary Movies on Paramount+

Every mockumentary movie streaming on Paramount+ in the US right now — 15 films ranked by rating, checked against Paramount+’s live catalog.

Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Paramount+ US

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South Park: Post COVID: The Return of COVID (2021)

IMDb 7.5 Letterboxd 3.6 1h 2m

Directed by Trey Parker

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSouth Park's fake news chyrons and absurdist political commentary perfectly weaponize the mockumentary format to critique pandemic discourse.

If Stan, Kyle and Cartman could just work together, they could go back in time to make sure Covid never happened. But traveling back to the past seems to be the easy answer until they meet Victor Chaos.

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South Park: The End of Obesity (2024)

IMDb 7.1 Letterboxd 3.5 0h 51m

Directed by Trey Parker

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSouth Park weaponizes concerned experts and pseudo-documentary earnestness to satirize pharmaceutical culture and body-image hysteria.

The advent of new weight loss drugs has a huge impact on everyone in South Park. When Cartman is denied access to the life-changing medicine, the kids jump into action.

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Jackass 3D (2010)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 67% Letterboxd 3.4 1h 34m

Directed by Jeff Tremaine

✦ MovieMuse AI takeJackass 3D's shaky-cam 'found footage' authenticity and complete absence of narrative structure redefine mockumentary as pure documented chaos.

Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Wee Man and the rest of their fearless and foolhardy friends take part in another round of outrageous pranks and stunts. In addition to standing in the path of a charging bull, launching themselves into the air and crashing through various objects, the guys perform in segments such as "Sweatsuit Cocktail," "Beehive Tetherball" and "Lamborghini Tooth Pull."

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Jackass Number Two (2006)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 66% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 32m

Directed by Jeff Tremaine

✦ MovieMuse AI takeJackass Number Two's pseudo-interviews and faux-documentary framing ironically legitimize absolute stupidity with documentary gravitas.

Jackass Number Two is a compilation of various stunts, pranks and skits, and essentially has no plot. Chris Pontius, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, and the whole crew return to the screen to raise the stakes higher than ever before.

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Jackass Forever (2022)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 86% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 36m

Directed by Jeff Tremaine

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSelf-documentation of dangerous stunts collapses the line between stunt performer and documentarian, making the camera complicit in chaos.

The Jackass crew, along with some newcomers, returns for one more round of hilarious, absurd, and dangerous stunts.

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Jackass: The Movie (2002)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 49% Letterboxd 3.4 1h 25m

Directed by Jeff Tremaine

✦ MovieMuse AI takeJackass: The Movie's deadpan narration treats cartoonish violence with unearned journalistic seriousness, the mockumentary's greatest weapon.

Johnny Knoxville and his band of maniacs perform a variety of stunts and gross-out gags on the big screen for the first time. They wander around Japan in panda outfits, wreak havoc on a once civilized golf course, they even do stunts involving LIVE alligators, and so on.

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Jackass 3.5 (2011)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 60% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 25m

Directed by Jeff Tremaine

✦ MovieMuse AI takeJackass 3.5 mines comedy from 'behind-the-scenes' footage, leveraging mockumentary's meta-commentary on what footage 'belongs' on screen.

Johnny Knoxville of 'Jackass' releases unused material of stunts, tricks, antics and shenanigans shot during the production of 'Jackass 3D' that didn't make it into the film, as well as the hilarious outtakes.

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Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis (2018)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 7% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 25m

Directed by Joel Gallen

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCelebrity roasts mock their own format through deliberately overwrought production values and fake-serious commentary on entertainment.

Bruce Willis goes from "Die Hard" to dead on arrival as some of the biggest names in entertainment serve up punches of their own to Hollywood's go-to action star. And with Roast Master Joseph Gordon-Levitt at the helm, nobody is leaving the dais unscathed.

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Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013)

IMDb 6.5 🍅 61% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 32m

Directed by Jeff Tremaine

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBad Grandpa embeds hidden-camera pranks within a fake biographical narrative, blending mockumentary and reality-TV prank formats.

86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy.

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Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen (2011)

1h 18m

Directed by Joel Gallen

✦ MovieMuse AI takeComedy roasts weaponize the documentary's mock-reverent tone to systematically dismantle their subjects with choreographed irreverence.

It's Charlie Sheen's turn to step in to the celebrity hot seat for the latest installment of The Comedy Central Roast.

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Jackass 2.5 (2007)

IMDb 6.3 Letterboxd 3.1 1h 4m

Directed by Jeff Tremaine

✦ MovieMuse AI takeJackass 2.5 frames outtakes as intentional material, forcing viewers to question what separates 'real' documentary from discarded footage.

The crew have now set off to finish what as left over from Jackass 2.0, and in this version they have Wee Man use a 'pee' gun on themselves, having a mini motor bike fracas in the grocery mall, a sperm test, a portly crew member disguised as King Kong, as well as include three episodes of their hilarious adventures in India.

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Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5 (2014)

IMDb 6.2 Letterboxd 3.0 1h 26m

Directed by Jeff Tremaine

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBad Grandpa .5's bonus scenes and new 'Gloria' segments exploit mockumentary's malleability—recontextualizing footage creates new narratives.

Bad Grandpa .5 gives you a whole new perspective on the world of Irving Zisman with bonus scenes and pranks also featuring Spike Jonze as "Gloria" and Catherine Keener as Irving's wife "Ellie", plus a look at the evolution of Johnny Knoxville's naughty alter-ego, the makeup effects, and a behind-the-scenes peek at the idiocy it takes to make a hidden camera movie in public.

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Reno 911!: It's a Wonderful Heist (2022)

IMDb 5.6 Letterboxd 2.9 1h 19m

Directed by Christian Hoffman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeReno 911!'s mockumentary cop-show format brilliantly satirizes procedural earnestness through incompetent authority figures.

It’s Holiday Season in Reno, and Lieutenant Dangle wishes he’d never been born. With the help of a roller skating “Angel,” he learns how much better the lives of the other deputies would be if he never existed. Will he decide to live on anyway? There’s still Christmas criminals to catch!

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One Crazy Cruise (2015)

IMDb 5.3 Letterboxd 2.6 1h 7m

Directed by Michael Grossman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeOne Crazy Cruise weaponizes the mystery-documentary format to build fake stakes around fabricated amnesia and fabricated consequences.

A family goes on a cruise but not all is what it seems. The next day they wake up with no memories of last night, which gets them in a LOT of trouble!

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Scary Movie 4 (2006)

IMDb 5.1 🍅 34% Letterboxd 2.4 1h 23m

Directed by David Zucker

✦ MovieMuse AI takeScary Movie 4 deconstructs horror-film grammar through exaggerated mockumentary parody aesthetics and desperate genre-saturation.

Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.

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