Movies Like It's Just a Story
If you liked It's Just a Story (2019), a drama and thriller movie directed by Emilia Natali, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Requiem for a Dream (2000)
★ 8/10Also dramaThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
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The Crush (1993)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and dramaA precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
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Shirley (2020)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and thrillerA famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
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Chatroom (2010)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and thrillerWhen strangers Jim, Eva, Emily and Mo meet William online in his new 'Chelsea Teens!' chatroom, they're completely seduced by his fast-talking, charismatic character. But beneath the surface lies a much darker truth…
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Light It Up (1999)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and thrillerOn a winter day in a southside Queens high school, events collide and six students are suddenly in an armed standoff with the NYPD. At the school, classrooms freeze, teachers come and go, resources are scant.
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The Spiral (2026)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and thrillerOn a stormy night in Rome, Anna arrives at her daughter Alice’s apartment with a devastating confession: their entire family history is built on a lie. Twenty years earlier, after a horrific accident that nearly cost…
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Black Bear (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and thrillerAt a remote lake house in the Adirondack Mountains, a couple entertains an out-of-town guest looking for inspiration in her filmmaking. The group quickly falls into a calculated game of desire, manipulation, and…
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Secret Window (2004)
★ 6.6/10Also thrillerMort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey…
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The Hummingbird Project (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and dramaA pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.
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The Good Neighbor (2022)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller and dramaA nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and…
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The Double (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller and dramaAn awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.
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The Words (2012)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and thrillerThe Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to…
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Road to Paloma (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also thriller and dramaWhile Native American Wolf is being pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own hands, when his mother was raped and killed on their reservation he crosses paths with Cash, a down and out musician who is…
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The House on Carroll Street (1988)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and thrillerA reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she overhears a noisy argument in the neighboring house…
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The Experiment (2010)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and drama20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
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Following (1999)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and thrillerBill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly chosen strangers, a seemingly innocent entertainment that becomes dangerous when he crosses paths with a mysterious…
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The Hours (2002)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaThe story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together…
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Before I Fall (2017)
★ 7/10Also dramaSamantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her…
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Swimming Pool (2003)
★ 6.5/10Also thrillerA British crime novelist travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek solitude in order to work on her next book. However, the unexpected arrival of the publisher's daughter induces…
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The Insider (1999)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and thrillerA research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.