If You Liked Balestra, Watch These Next
Finished Balestra (2024) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Balestra, most of them are science fiction, thriller, drama.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Vesper(2022)
6.3Science FictionDramaAdventureAlso science fiction and drama
After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of a future.
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2.A Dry White Season(1989)
6.7DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
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3.2073(2024)
6.7ThrillerScience FictionDramaAlso thriller and science fiction
Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and personal freedom have been well and truly obliterated.
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4.The Mandela Effect(2019)
6.3Science FictionThrillerDramaAlso science fiction and thriller
A man becomes obsessed with facts and events that have been collectively misremembered by thousands of people. Believing the phenomena to be the symptom of something larger, his obsession eventually leads him to question reality itself.
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5.The Truth About Emanuel(2013)
6.0DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
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6.Paradise Hills(2019)
5.9FantasyScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
A young woman is sent to Paradise Hills to be reformed, only to learn that the high-class facility's beautiful facade hides a sinister secret.
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7.The Kovak Box(2006)
5.8Science FictionThrillerActionAlso science fiction and thriller
David Norton is used to being in control. As a best-selling author, he decides the fate of his characters, their lives and their deaths. But what happens when his fictional world becomes all too real?
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8.Black Site(2022)
6.0ActionThrillerCrimeAlso thriller and drama
A group of officers based in a labyrinthine top-secret prison must fight for their lives against Hatchet, a brilliant and infamous high-value detainee. When he escapes, his mysterious and deadly agenda has far reaching and dire consequences.
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9.Rogue Agent(2022)
6.3ThrillerDramaAlso thriller and drama
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
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10.My Zoe(2019)
6.5DramaScience FictionAlso drama and science fiction
Isabelle, a geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage, is raising her only daughter, Zoe, with her contentious ex-husband. Zoe means everything to her mother and so when tragedy strikes the fractured family, Isabelle travels to Russia in seeking the help of a world-renowned fertility physician who Isabelle believes…
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11.Right at Your Door(2006)
5.8DramaThrillerScience FictionAlso drama and thriller
A dirty bomb goes off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud.
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12.Split(2016)
5.9FantasyDramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
The story of a young woman who takes an epic journey to claim her own darkness and sexuality so she can stop putting it into the hands of her abusive lover. When Inanna, a young actress, working as a stripper, becomes obsessed with a mask maker, she sacrifices parts of herself and her life, piece by piece, in order…
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14.The Operative(2019)
5.8DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
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15.Killer's Kiss(1955)
6.3ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso thriller and drama
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced…
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16.The Caveman's Valentine(2001)
5.9DramaMysteryThrillerAlso drama and thriller
Romulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities, including his police officer daughter, claim the death is accidental. Romulus is convinced the man was murdered by a prominent art photographer but…
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17.6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain(2017)
5.8ThrillerDramaAlso thriller and drama
An adrenaline seeking snowboarder gets lost in a massive winter storm in the back country of the High Sierras where he is pushed to the limits of human endurance and forced to battle his own personal demons as he fights for survival....
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18.Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven(2014)
8.0Science FictionDramaMysteryAlso science fiction and drama
In this epic two-part finale, the Doctor comes face to face with the mysterious Missy, and an impossible choice is looming. With Cybermen on the streets of London, old friends unite against old enemies, and the Doctor takes to the air in a startling new role.
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19.The Hummingbird Project(2019)
6.2ThrillerDramaAlso thriller and drama
A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.
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20.Prodigy(2017)
6.1ThrillerScience FictionAlso thriller and science fiction
Jimmy is a committed child psychologist who uses his own playbook, but when he is brought in to work with Ellie, he is completely unprepared for his subject—a 9-year-old psychopathic genius with nothing to lose. As he begins to understand the extent of her capabilities and the fate that has been planned for her, he…
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