Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 13, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Headlines

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

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#1
Overheard

Overheard

2009★ 6.9

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

The story revolves around three members of a police surveillance squad conducting an investigation into a financial investment group involved in criminal fraud. The focus of the pl...

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#3
Protégé

Protégé

2007★ 6.8

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

A special agent has for 8 years been deep undercover in Asia's lucrative organized crime trade as he plays protégé to one of the key players, Banker. Now, Nick has but he has start...

#4
Absence of Malice

Absence of Malice

1981★ 6.6

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

Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it inv...

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2020★ 6.7

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

Early morning silence is broken by screeching tires as a helicopter bears down on a speeding vehicle. Taking a quick corner, the team tumbles out into the woods as their car pulls ...

#6
Shattered Glass

Shattered Glass

2003★ 7.0

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

The true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass, who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at The New Republic for t...

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