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The Perfect Neighbor

6.8(361)20251h 37m3

Police bodycam footage reveals how a long-running neighborhood dispute turned fatal in this documentary about fear, prejudice and Stand Your Ground laws.

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Released
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Language
English
  • florida
  • homicide
  • racist
  • murder
  • true crime
  • yelling
  • neighborhood
  • woman director
  • annoying
  • neighbor feud
  • escalation
  • complaint

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • IndiaIN

    • Digital / OTTU/A 16+Netflix17 Oct 2025
  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereSundance Film Festival24 Jan 2025
    • PremiereSouth by Southwest Film & TV Festival9 Mar 2025
    • PremiereFull Frame Documentary Film Festival4 Apr 2025
    • PremiereChicago DOC10 Film Festival3 May 2025
    • PremiereDC/DOX 14 Jun 2025
    • PremiereMartha's Vineyard African American Film Festival7 Aug 2025
    • PremiereCamden International Film Festival14 Sept 2025
    • PremiereAspen Film Festival17 Sept 2025
    • PremiereMill Valley Film Festival3 Oct 2025
    • PremiereNew York Film Festival8 Oct 2025
    • Theatrical (limited)R10 Oct 2025
    • PremiereWoodstock Film Festival17 Oct 2025
    • Digital / OTTRNetflix17 Oct 2025
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereSheffield DocFest20 Jun 2025
    • Digital / OTT15Netflix17 Oct 2025
  • United Arab EmiratesAE

    • Digital / OTTNetflix17 Oct 2025
  • AustraliaAU

    • PremiereSydney Film Festival5 Jun 2025
    • PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival9 Aug 2025
    • Digital / OTTMNetflix17 Oct 2025
  • CanadaCA

    • Digital / OTTRNetflix17 Oct 2025
  • AfghanistanAF

    • Digital / OTTNetflix17 Oct 2025
  • AlbaniaAL

    • Digital / OTTNetflix17 Oct 2025
  • AlgeriaDZ

    • Digital / OTTNetflix17 Oct 2025
  • American SamoaAS

    • Digital / OTTNetflix16 Oct 2025
  • AndorraAD

    • Digital / OTTNetflix17 Oct 2025
  • AngolaAO

    • Digital / OTTNetflix17 Oct 2025

Frequently asked questions

The Perfect Neighbor was released on 10 October 2025.

Audience reviews

3
  • D

    Dean

    11/25/2025

    1/10

    Started good and actually similar thing happened to me. I have a problematic neighbor and once, he insulted my mother when they were outside, then when he returned he banged on our door and this is when I said enough was enough. I got furious, went outside and started banging on his door and telling him to come out and face me like a man to man. He didn't. But in this documentary, that problematic neighbor shot the d…

  • B

    Brent Marchant

    12/28/2025

    6/10

    This is likely to be seen as an unpopular assessment, for a variety of reasons and regardless of where one stands on the issues presented in this release. Director Geeta Gandbhir’s Netflix documentary examines the question of using potentially fatal force for self-protection under controversial state statutes known as Stand Your Ground laws. In particular, the film explores a 2023 case in Marion County, Florida in wh…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    7/21/2026

    6/10

    There's something really quite disturbing about this body-cam led feature, and something distressingly unnecessary about it too. What is immediately clear to the viewer is that over a two year period of filming, Susan Lorincz is ill. Now I'm no psychiatrist but if you are police officers constantly being called to a property by a woman who is claiming all sorts of often quite trivial infractions on her property by he…

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