Movies Like Deadline

If you liked Deadline (2011), a movie directed by Joel Lamangan, 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.

1
The Operative (2019)
★ 5.8/10
A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
2
Hereafter (2010)
★ 6.2/10
Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
3
The Parallax View (1974)
★ 6.8/10
An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.
4
JFK (1991)
★ 7.6/10
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
5
Tatami (2024)
★ 7.7/10
Iranian female judokas Leila and her coach Maryam, travel to the Judo World Championship, intent on bringing home Iran’s first gold medal. Midway through the Judo World Championships, they receive an ultimatum from the…
6
Salvador (1986)
★ 7/10
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children.
7
The House on Carroll Street (1988)
★ 6/10
A 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…
8
The Killing Fields (1984)
★ 7.5/10
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid…
9
Posthumous (2014)
★ 6/10
After false reports of his demise put him and his work on the map, an artist decides to continue the charade by posing as his own brother. Soon, a reporter enters his life and has a profound effect on him.
10
The Post (2017)
★ 7/10
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
11
Nothing But the Truth (2008)
★ 6.9/10
When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail…
12
Nick of Time (1995)
★ 6.2/10
An ordinary man is suddenly forced into a plot to kill a politician in exchange for his kidnapped daughter's freedom.
13
Coffy (1973)
★ 6.6/10
After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her…
14
The Jackal (1997)
★ 6.4/10
Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of…
15
Rising Sun (1993)
★ 6.2/10
When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation, detectives John Connor and Web Smith are called in to investigate. Although Connor has previous experience working…
16
Blood on the Sun (1945)
★ 5.9/10
Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by the propaganda…
17
State of Play (2009)
★ 6.8/10
When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.
18
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)
★ 6.3/10
Stuck in a rut, reporter Kim Baker decides to shake things up by leaving her desk job in New York and taking a dangerous assignment in Afghanistan. Far from home and completely out of her comfort zone, a…
19
Target Number One (2020)
★ 6.2/10
Ex heroin junkie, Daniel Léger, gets involved in a drug deal with the wrong people for the wrong reasons. When the deal goes sour, Daniel gets thrown into a Thai prison and slapped with a 100-year sentence. While he…
20
True Crime (1999)
★ 6.5/10
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly…