Movies Like Scandal: 15 Minutes of Fame

If you liked Scandal: 15 Minutes of Fame (2001), a drama and crime movie directed by Jill Hayworth, 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
Power (1986)
★ 5.8/10Also drama
Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to…
2
Pitfall (1948)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and crime
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.
3
The Company You Keep (2012)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
4
The Parallax View (1974)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and drama
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.
5
National Theatre Live: Prima Facie (2022)
★ 8.8/10Also drama and crime
Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. From working class origins, she has reached the top of her game. An unexpected event forces her to confront the lines where the patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and…
6
The Laundromat (2019)
★ 6/10Also crime and drama
When a widow gets swindled out of insurance money, her search for answers leads to two cunning lawyers in Panama who hide cash for the superrich.
7
Palmetto (1998)
★ 6/10Also crime
After being released from prison on a bum charge, Harry Barber is out for payback to regain his lost two years. He's hired by Mrs. Malroux to fake the kidnapping of her stepdaughter (the daughter of a dying…
8
The Natural (1984)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.
9
Street Smart (1987)
★ 6/10Also crime and drama
A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.
10
Disclosure (1994)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and crime
A computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life.
11
Double Indemnity (1944)
★ 8.1/10Also crime
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
12
52 Pick-Up (1986)
★ 6.1/10Also crime
Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and…
13
The Social Reckoning (2026)
★ 7/10Also drama
Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network's most guarded secrets.
14
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and drama
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district…
15
The Skulls (2000)
★ 5.8/10Also crime and drama
A senior at an Ivy League college, who depends on scholarships and working on the side, gets accepted into the secret society The Skulls. He hopes it betters chances at Harvard but The Skulls is not what he thought and…
16
The Contender (2000)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival. When Senator Laine Hanson is nominated as the first woman in history…
17
The Devil's Double (2011)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and crime
A chilling vision of the House of Saddam Hussein comes to life through the eyes of the man who was forced to become the double of Hussein's sadistic son.
18
American Hustle (2013)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and crime
A conman and his seductive partner are forced to work for a wild FBI agent, who pushes them into a world of Jersey power-brokers and the Mafia.
19
Bordertown (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama
American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for…
20
Heatwave (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
A woman's life takes an unexpected turn when she falls for her boss's wife. She must soon defend herself as she becomes entangled in a web of malice.