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10 Best Movies Like Escape from the Newsroom

If you loved Escape from the Newsroom, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Re-Kill

Re-Kill

2015★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Escape from the Newsroom for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Five years after a zombie outbreak, the men and women of R-Division hunt down and destroy the undead. When they see signs of a second outbreak, they fear humanity may not survive....

#2
The World of Apu

The World of Apu

1959★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Escape from the Newsroom for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old college friend on a trip up-country to a village wedding....

#3
Life Is Sweet

Life Is Sweet

1990★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Escape from the Newsroom for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, N...

#4
Marriage Italian Style

Marriage Italian Style

1964★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Escape from the Newsroom for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings....

#5
Love and Death

Love and Death

1975★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Escape from the Newsroom for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon....

#6
Days of Heaven

Days of Heaven

1978★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Escape from the Newsroom for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a...