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10 Best Movies Like State of Play

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

#1
Love Is the Perfect Crime

Love Is the Perfect Crime

2013★ 5.6

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

Marc, in his 40s, is a professor of literature at the University of Lausanne. Still a bachelor — and still living with his sister Marianne in a huge, isolated chalet that they inhe...

#2
The House That Dripped Blood

The House That Dripped Blood

1971★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to State of Play for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house....

#3
Nine Lives

Nine Lives

2005★ 6.0

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

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life....

#4
Stone Cold

Stone Cold

2005★ 6.8

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

Jesse Stone is a former L.A. homicide detective who left behind the big city and an ex-wife to become the police chief of the quiet New England fishing town of Paradise. Stone's ol...

#5
Vitus

Vitus

2006★ 7.4

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

Vitus tells the story of a highly-gifted boy (played by real-life piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu) whose parents have demanding and ambitious plans for him....

#6
Asher

Asher

2018★ 5.8

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

Asher is a former Mossad agent turned gun for hire, living an austere life in an ever-changing Brooklyn. Approaching the end of his career, he breaks the oath he took as a young ma...