If You Liked Primetime, Watch These Next
Finished Primetime (2026) and want more of the same? These 19 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Primetime, most of them are thriller, drama.
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19 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Manhattan Night(2016)
5.9DramaMysteryThrillerAlso drama and thriller
Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is…
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2.Careful What You Wish For(2015)
6.1DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
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.
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3.Butterfly on a Wheel(2007)
6.4CrimeDramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
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4.A Thousand and One(2023)
6.6DramaCrimeAlso drama
Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a…
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5.Crime of Passion(1956)
6.1DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama and thriller
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.
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6.Auto Focus(2002)
6.4CrimeDramaAlso drama
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with the help of his seedy friend, John Henry Carpenter. This biographical drama…
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7.Trust(2010)
6.6CrimeDramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her parents are shattered by their daughter's actions and struggle to…
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8.One Hour Photo(2002)
6.7DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
Sy Parrish has lovingly developed photographs for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually convinces himself he's part of their family. When Sy's picture-perfect fantasy collides with an ugly dose of reality, a bizarre and…
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9.Fatale(2020)
6.0DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
After a wild one-night stand, successful sports agent Derrick Tyler watches his perfect life slowly disappear when he discovers the sexy and mysterious woman he risked everything for is determined police detective Valerie Quinlan who entangles him in her latest investigation. As he desperately tries to put the pieces…
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10.Adulterers(2016)
6.2ThrillerDramaAlso thriller and drama
On a steamy New Orleans afternoon, Sam Deuprey decides to surprise his beautiful wife, Ashley, for their anniversary and comes home early. But Ashley is not alone in the bedroom. She and her lover, Damien are about to learn how far a jealous husband will go.
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11.Hard Candy(2006)
6.8DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
Hayley’s a smart, charming teenage girl. Jeff’s a handsome, smooth fashion photographer. An Internet chat, a coffee shop meet-up, an impromptu fashion shoot back at Jeff’s place. Jeff thinks it’s his lucky night. He’s in for a surprise.
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12.Street Smart(1987)
6.0ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso thriller and drama
A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.
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13.Straw Dogs(2011)
5.9DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A young couple moves to a quaint southern town. Soon their perfect getaway turns out to become a living hell when dark secrets and lethal passions spiral out of control.
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14.Natural Born Killers(1994)
7.1CrimeThrillerDramaAlso thriller and drama
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
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15.Enough(2002)
6.6DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of their first child, her picture perfect life is shattered when she discovers Mitch's hidden possessive dark side, a controlling and abusive alter ego that can turn trust,…
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16.Nightcrawler(2014)
7.7CrimeDramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
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17.Deep Water(2022)
5.8DramaMysteryThrillerAlso drama and thriller
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.
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18.Primal Fear(1996)
7.7CrimeDramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His latest case involves an altar boy, accused of brutally murdering the archbishop of Chicago. Vail finds himself up against his ex-pupil and ex-lover, but as the case progresses and the Church's dark secrets…
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