Movies Like Deadline

If you liked Deadline (1980), a horror and thriller movie directed by Mario Azzopardi, 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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Antichrist (2009)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and horror
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
2
The Player (1992)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and thriller
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
3
Black Butterfly (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and drama
Paul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried…
4
Shirley (2020)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and thriller
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
5
Bird Box (2018)
★ 6.8/10Also horror and thriller
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.
6
The Plague (2025)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and thriller
A socially awkward tween endures the ruthless hierarchy at a water polo camp, his anxiety spiraling into psychological turmoil over the summer.
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It Comes at Night (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and horror
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives…
8
Birth/Rebirth (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and horror
A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.
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Hunter Hunter (2020)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and thriller
A fur trapper leaves his wife and daughter behind to kill a rogue wolf in the remote wilderness, but they soon become increasingly worried when their peaceful existence is disrupted.
10
Grizzly Night (2026)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and thriller
On August 12, 1967, in Montana's Glacier National Park, the unthinkable happened: that same night, nine miles apart, there were not one—but two—fatal grizzly bear attacks.
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Watcher (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and thriller
As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.
12
Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and thriller
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.
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Black Bear (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and thriller
At 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…
14
mother! (2017)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and drama
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
15
Bone Lake (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and thriller
A couple’s romantic vacation at a secluded lakeside estate is upended when they are forced to share the mansion with a mysterious and attractive couple. In this darkly hilarious and seductive horror story, a dream…
16
Barbarian (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and thriller
In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she…
17
The Surrender (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and horror
A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead.
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The Invisible Man (2020)
★ 7.1/10Also thriller and horror
When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can…
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Nocebo (2022)
★ 6/10Also thriller and horror
A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying…
20
The Shining (1980)
★ 8.2/10Also horror and thriller
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the…