15 Awesome Summer 2017 Movies You Probably Missed

3. Icarus

Icarus Netflix
Netflix

The Plot: Filmmaker and amateur cyclist Bryan Fogel puts himself through a regimen of performance-enhancing drugs to examine their effects and also the ease with which they can circumvent anti-doping measures. Naturally, he discovers far more than he bargained for.

Why It's Awesome: Icarus could've easily been a mildly interesting novelty documentary about drugs in sports, but thanks to a consistently fascinating, even horrifying, array of reveals, it evolves to become a legitimately disturbing look at the business of cheating in sports, and the lengths those involved will go to cover it up.

Suspenseful and exciting in ways so few documentaries are, it also couldn't feel much more timely coming just a year before Russia's FIFA World Cup kicks off.

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