Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 19, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Headline

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

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#1
Rose Plays Julie

Rose Plays Julie

2021★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Headline for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A story of a young woman searching for her biological mother. Set against a backdrop of misogyny, revenge, and longing, Rose undertakes a journey that leads her to revelations that...

#2
Chatroom

Chatroom

2010★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Headline for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When strangers Jim, Eva, Emily and Mo meet William online in his new 'Chelsea Teens!' chatroom, they're completely seduced by his fast-talking, charismatic character. But beneath t...

#3
Coldwater

Coldwater

2013★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Headline for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmat...

#4
The Operative

The Operative

2019★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Headline for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject....

#5
Lila & Eve

Lila & Eve

2015★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Headline for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Lila, a grief-stricken mother reeling from her son’s murder, attends a support group where she meets Eve, who urges her to take matters into her own hands to track down her son’s k...

#6
The Lords of Discipline

The Lords of Discipline

1983★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Headline for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep a...

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