Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 15, 2026

10 Best Movies Like It Happens

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

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#1
Case 137

Case 137

2025★ 7.0

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

Stéphanie, a police officer working for Internal Affairs, is assigned to a case involving a young man severely wounded during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris. While she ...

#2
Paris by Night

Paris by Night

2012★ 6.1

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

Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris’s demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs, making sure once again that t...

#3
The Stranger

The Stranger

2025★ 6.8

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

Algiers, 1938. Meursault, a quiet and unassuming employee in his early thirties, attends his mother's funeral without shedding a tear. The next day, he begins a casual affair with ...

#4
Rogue City

Rogue City

2020★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Happens for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Caught in the crosshairs of police corruption and Marseille’s warring gangs, a loyal cop must protect his squad by taking matters into his own hands....

#5
Òlòtūré

Òlòtūré

2019★ 6.3

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

In Lagos, Nigeria, young, naive Nigerian journalist Òlòtūré goes undercover to expose the shady underworld of human trafficking. Unused to this brutal environment, crawling with ru...

#6
Pasha

Pasha

1968★ 6.7

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

Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigat...

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