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10 Best Movies Like Behind the Headlines

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

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#1
While the City Sleeps

While the City Sleeps

1956★ 6.9

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

Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer"....

#2
The Mask of Dimitrios

The Mask of Dimitrios

1944★ 7.0

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

A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career...

#3
Pitfall

Pitfall

1948★ 6.9

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

An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator....

#4
Blackmail

Blackmail

1929★ 6.5

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

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees ...

#5
Murder in Three Acts

Murder in Three Acts

1986★ 5.8

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

In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of ...

#6
The Big Combo

The Big Combo

1955★ 7.0

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

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend....

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