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10 Best Movies Like Shadowplay

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

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#1
Frailty

Frailty

2002★ 7.0

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

A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "d...

#2
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#3
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shadowplay for fans of Thriller. 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....

#4
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

2018★ 8.4

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

Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable...

#5
The Suicide Squad

The Suicide Squad

2021★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shadowplay for fans of Action. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X as they are dropped off at th...

#6
Green Book

Green Book

2018★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shadowplay for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and ...