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10 Best Movies Like Playmaker

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

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#1
News of the World

News of the World

2020★ 6.9

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

A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped....

#2
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

2014★ 6.1

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

Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack....

#3
Germany. A Winter's Tale

Germany. A Winter's Tale

2019★ 5.1

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

Becky, Tommi and Maik form a right-wing terror cell that lives in the underground and is dreaming of country-wide attention. Entangled in a complex relationship of love, hate and f...

#4
The Walk

The Walk

2015★ 7.0

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

The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974....

#5
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1996★ 7.1

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

Isolated bell-ringer Quasimodo wishes to leave Notre Dame tower against the wishes of Judge Claude Frollo, his stern guardian and Paris' strait-laced Minister of Justice. His first...

#6
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....