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Movies that feel likePrimetime (2026)

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. When a high stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his veneered dream of fame curdles into a nightmare of performative justice.

If you loved Primetime, the closest films we have are Compliance (2012), The Master and Margarita (2024) and The Guilty (2021). All three share Primetime's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Some Kind of Heaven (2021).

πŸ… 86% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 8.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Lance Oppenheimcontemplativetensedreamlikeunsettling
9 of 12 streaming nowNetflix Β· Amazon Prime Video Β· Fandor

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If Primetime hit the spot, these will too

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Compliance
2012 Β· dir. Craig Zobel
πŸ… 89%β˜… 6.4drama Β· thriller

The same two preoccupations: a true story, and psychological thriller

The difference: Easier on the dream logic than Primetime

On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food restaurant, manager Sandra receives a phone call from a police officer saying that an employee has stolen money from a customer.

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The Master and Margarita
2024 Β· dir. Michael Lockshin
β˜… 7.1fantasy Β· drama

Both land stillness and dream logic at once

The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than Primetime does

A struggling writer in 1930s Soviet Moscow finds his life transformed when a mysterious professor arrives with his bizarre entourage, including a wisecracking trickster, a deadly assassin, a vampire maid, and a giant talking black cat, turning the city upside down while exposing the hypocrisy of those in power.

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The Guilty
2021 Β· dir. Antoine Fuqua
πŸ… 73%β˜… 6.3drama Β· thrillerNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: psychological thriller

A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.

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November
2017 Β· dir. Rainer Sarnet
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.1drama Β· fantasy Β· romance

Drama built on unease, twice over

The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than Primetime does

In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.

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Dead of Night
1945 Β· dir. Charles Crichton
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.5horror Β· thriller

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Made in the 1940s, in a different era of the craft

An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.

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Tumbbad
2018 Β· dir. Rahi Anil Barve
πŸ… 87%β˜… 8.2fantasy Β· horrorPrime Video

Both lean on dream logic more than on drama

India, 1918. On the outskirts of Tumbbad, a cursed village where it always rains, Vinayak, along with his mother and his brother, care of a mysterious old woman who keeps the secret of an ancestral treasure that Vinayak gets obsessed with.

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Verity
2026 Β· dir. Michael Showalter
β˜… 6.3mystery Β· thrillerRent or buy

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Lowen Ashleigh, hired to ghostwrite for best-selling author Verity Crawford, uncovers Verity's autobiographical notes, and becomes involved in what may prove to be a lethal conspiracy.

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Some Kind of Heaven
2021 Β· dir. Lance Oppenheim
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.2documentaryRent or buy

Lance Oppenheim directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

Behind the gates of a palm-tree-lined fantasyland, three residents and one interloper at America's largest retirement community strive to find happiness.

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The Devil's Backbone
2001 Β· dir. Guillermo del Toro
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.3fantasy Β· drama Β· horror

Contemplative drama in both cases

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa LucΓ­a orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.

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Footprints on the Moon
1975 Β· dir. Luigi Bazzoni
β˜… 6.6thriller Β· mystery Β· drama

Unsettling thriller in both cases

Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?

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Horns
2013 Β· dir. Alexandre Aja
πŸ… 41%β˜… 6.4drama Β· fantasy Β· thrillerPrime Video

A streak of stillness through both

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.

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Kingdom: Ashin of the North
2021 Β· dir. Kim Seong-hun
β˜… 6.9drama Β· fantasy Β· thrillerNetflix

Both work the same tension

Tragedy, betrayal and a mysterious discovery fuel a woman's vengeance for the loss of her tribe and family.

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