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Movies Like Prologue

If you liked Prologue (2020), a drama movie directed by Justin Joseph Hall, 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. 1Die My Love

    Die My Love (2025)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace…

  2. 2Knox Goes Away

    Knox Goes Away (2024)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    A contract killer, after being diagnosed with a fast-moving form of dementia, is presented with the opportunity to redeem himself by saving the life of his estranged adult son. But to do so, he must race against the…

  3. 3Fathers and Daughters

    Fathers and Daughters (2015)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.

  4. 4Sleuth

    Sleuth (2007)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Locked in a high-tech English manor, bound in a deadly duel of wits, Andrew Wyke and Milo Tindle come together as English gentlemen to discuss the matter of Wyke's wife: the woman both are sleeping with.

  5. 5Faces

    Faces (1968)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Middle-aged suburban husband Richard abruptly tells his wife, Maria, that he wants a divorce. As Richard takes up with a younger woman, Maria enjoys a night on the town with her friends and meets a younger man. As the…

  6. 6Here

    Here (2024)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.

  7. 7Deep Water

    Deep Water (2022)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.

  8. 85 Flights Up

    5 Flights Up (2014)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    A long-time married couple who've spent their lives together in the same New York apartment become overwhelmed by personal and real estate-related issues when they plan to move away.

  9. 9Sleeping with the Enemy

    Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.

  10. 10The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them

    The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (2014)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her volumes that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

  11. 11Wah-Wah

    Wah-Wah (2005)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12, through his parents' traumatic separation, till he's 14.

  12. 12Death of a Salesman

    Death of a Salesman (1985)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    Willy Loman, an aging, failing salesman, struggles to accept reality and his failure to achieve the American Dream.

  13. 13The Thing with Feathers

    The Thing with Feathers (2025)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Following the death of his wife, a young father's hold on reality crumbles, and a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.

  14. 14American Beauty

    American Beauty (1999)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

  15. 15Everybody's Fine

    Everybody's Fine (2009)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Eight months after the death of his wife, Frank Goode looks forward to a reunion with his four adult children. When all of them cancel their visits at the last minute, Frank, against the advice of his doctor, sets out…

  16. 16Leave the World Behind

    Leave the World Behind (2023)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices—and two strangers appear at their door.

  17. 17Effie Gray

    Effie Gray (2014)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

  18. 18Goodbye June

    Goodbye June (2025)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.

  19. 19Careful What You Wish For

    Careful What You Wish For (2015)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.

  20. 20Blackbird

    Blackbird (2019)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.

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