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Movies Like The Broadcast

If you liked The Broadcast, a movie directed by Karl Huber, 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. 1Late Night with the Devil

    Late Night with the Devil (2024)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A live broadcast of a late-night talk show in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.

  2. 2Scary Movie 3

    Scary Movie 3 (2003)

    ★ 6/10

    News anchorwoman Cindy Campbell has to investigate mysterious crop circles and killing video tapes, and help the President stop an alien invasion in the process.

  3. 3Contact

    Contact (1997)

    ★ 7.5/10

    A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult…

  4. 4Don't Look Up

    Don't Look Up (2021)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh.

  5. 5Meet John Doe

    Meet John Doe (1941)

    ★ 7.3/10

    As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to…

  6. 6Pontypool

    Pontypool (2009)

    ★ 6.5/10

    When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy…

  7. 7Monsters

    Monsters (2010)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear…

  8. 8The Mothman Prophecies

    The Mothman Prophecies (2002)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror when fate draws him to the sleepy West Virginia town of Point Pleasant, whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous…

  9. 9On the Line

    On the Line (2022)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A provocative and edgy radio host must play a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a mysterious caller who's kidnapped his family and is threatening to blow up the whole station.

  10. 10Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder

    Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (2009)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Leela becomes an outlaw when she and a group of ecologically-minded feminists attempt to save an asteroid of primitive life forms and the Violet Dwarf star from being destroyed, while Fry joins a secret society and…

  11. 11The Vast of Night

    The Vast of Night (2019)

    ★ 6.6/10

    At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.

  12. 12Frequency

    Frequency (2000)

    ★ 7.3/10

    When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise…

  13. 13A Quiet Place Part II

    A Quiet Place Part II (2021)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk…

  14. 14Knowing

    Knowing (2009)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his…

  15. 15The Cabin in the Woods

    The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Five friends set out for a weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, expecting nothing more than fun and relaxation. As night falls, they discover that something far more unsettling is at work and that nothing about…

  16. 16Short Cuts

    Short Cuts (1993)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a…

  17. 17A Long Way Down

    A Long Way Down (2014)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Four lost souls—a disgraced TV presenter, a foul-mouthed teen, an isolated single mother, and a failed musician—decide to end their lives on the same night, New Year's Eve. When this disillusioned quartet of strangers…

  18. 18Red Lights

    Red Lights (2012)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Two investigators of paranormal hoaxes, the veteran Dr. Margaret Matheson and her young assistant, Tom Buckley, study the most varied metaphysical phenomena with the aim of proving their fraudulent origins. Simon…

  19. 19The Shadow

    The Shadow (1994)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Based on the 1930s comic strip, The Shadow is put up against his archenemy Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom using an atom bomb. Using his powers of invisibility and "the power…

  20. 20Videodrome

    Videodrome (1983)

    ★ 7.2/10

    As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential…

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