Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 11, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Act

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

🏆

Expert Review & Ratings

See our full critical analysis and audience score for The Act.

View Review →
Advertisement
#1
Intermission

Intermission

2003★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Act for fans of Crime & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconcepti...

#2
Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer

Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer

2025★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Act for fans of Crime & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next book by n...

#3
Panic

Panic

2000★ 6.2

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

Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for hi...

#4
American Murderer

American Murderer

2022★ 5.9

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

The True story of how charismatic con man Jason Derek Brown bankrolls his extravagant lifestyle through a series of scams. On Brown’s trail: Lance Leising, a dogged FBI special age...

#5
Things Change

Things Change

1988★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Act for fans of Crime & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But Gino's mi...

#6
Bad

Bad

1977★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Act for fans of Crime & Comedy. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house, but makes extra money by providing ruthless women the oppurtunity to perform hit jobs. L.T. is a parasite, and contacts Hazel looking fo...

Advertisement