Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere (2026)
★★★ — Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere (2026)
Louis Theroux has spent the better part of three decades embedding himself with groups most journalists would struggle to get near, from white supremacists and religious extremists to sex workers and gangsta rappers, and this 2026 documentary finds him turning his attention to the so-called manosphere, the loosely connected online ecosystem of red-pill influencers, pick-up artists, and self-styled "alpha male" coaches that has grown substantially in visibility since the mid-2010s. Produced by Mindhouse Productions (the company Theroux co-founded after his long BBC Three run), the film was directed by Adrian Choa and runs at 89 minutes, sitting comfortably within Theroux's recent feature-length format rather than the shorter episodic style of his earlier work. The timing is pointed, arriving at a cultural moment when figures like Andrew Tate have dragged manosphere rhetoric into mainstream political conversation.
Fatherless kids growing up to scam and "influence" other Fatherless kids. Selling and promoting onlyfans girls only to then claim it's disgusting and ridiculing those same girls. Telling young boys to "leave the matrix" by sucking them into their own pyramid schemes of financial scamming, rejecting mainstream morality in favour of alienating, antisocial behaviour. It seems money really is the root of all evil. Not the best Louis Theroux documentary because I could feel a sense of cruel irony in Theroux here. He wanted to explore the "manosphere", this misogynistic, sexist, homophobic space but in doing so he discovered that he himself would always be livestreamed during this process and his presence in turn gave more clout to these abhorrent posers. In that, it feels like Theroux is doing less journalism here and a little bit of voyeurism in a way.
Rating: ★★★ | Year: 2026 | Watched: 2026-03-14
Where to watch (UK)
Stream: Netflix · Netflix Standard with Ads
Physical: Amazon UK
Affiliate disclosure: Movies With Macca may earn a small commission on purchases or subscriptions started via these links. It costs you nothing extra.
Related on Movies With Macca
More with Louis Theroux: Louis Theroux: The Settlers (2025)
More from United Kingdom: Lessons of Darkness (1992) · Shinjuku Boys (1995) · The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) · Blue (1993)
More from the 2020s: Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain (2024) · Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage (2025) · The Long Walk (2025) · Americana (2023)
More documentary: Letter from Siberia (1957) · Lessons of Darkness (1992) · Style Wars (1983) · Here and Elsewhere (1976)
