If You Liked The Insider, Watch These Next
Finished The Insider (1999) 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 The Insider, most of them are drama, thriller.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Kill the Messenger(2014)
6.6CrimeDramaMysteryAlso drama and thriller
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.
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2.Nothing But the Truth(2008)
6.9DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail. Meanwhile, her attorney, Albert Burnside argues her case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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3.The Fifth Estate(2013)
6.0DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
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4.The Company You Keep(2012)
6.2DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
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5.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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6.Tyler Perry's Duplicity(2025)
6.6ThrillerDramaAlso thriller and drama
High-powered attorney Marley faces her most personal case yet when she is tasked with uncovering the truth behind the murder of her best friend Fela’s husband. With the help of her boyfriend – a former cop turned private investigator – Marley’s search for what really happened leads her down a treacherous maze of…
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7.The Experiment(2010)
6.4ThrillerDramaAlso thriller and drama
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
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9.Enemy of the State(1998)
7.1ActionDramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
When the videotape of the murder of a congressman unknowingly ends up in the hands of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert Clayton Dean, he is framed for the murder. With the help of the mysterious Brill, Dean attempts to throw the NSA off his trail and prove his innocence.
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10.Closet Land(1991)
6.7DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A young writer is interrogated by a sadistic secret policeman. She is accused of embedding political messages in her children's stories. The entire movie takes place in one room, with only the two actors. The movie is set in an unidentified, modern police state.
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11.Target Number One(2020)
6.2ThrillerCrimeAlso thriller
Ex heroin junkie, Daniel Léger, gets involved in a drug deal with the wrong people for the wrong reasons. When the deal goes sour, Daniel gets thrown into a Thai prison and slapped with a 100-year sentence. While he tries to survive his Bangkok incarceration, the news of his conviction captures the attention of Globe…
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12.White Boy Rick(2018)
6.4CrimeDramaAlso drama
The story of Richard Wershe Jr., a teenager who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s, and was ultimately arrested for drug trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.
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13.The Infiltrator(2016)
6.7CrimeDramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
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14.The Public Eye(1992)
6.2CrimeDramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.
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15.Light It Up(1999)
6.6DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
On a winter day in a southside Queens high school, events collide and six students are suddenly in an armed standoff with the NYPD. At the school, classrooms freeze, teachers come and go, resources are scant.
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16.Crisis(2021)
6.2ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso thriller and drama
Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's involvement with narcotics, and a university professor battles unexpected…
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17.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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19.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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20.Canary Black(2024)
6.2ActionThrillerCrimeAlso thriller
Top level CIA agent Avery Graves is blackmailed by terrorists into betraying her own country to save her kidnapped husband. Cut off from her team, she turns to her underworld contacts to survive and help locate the coveted intelligence that the kidnappers want.
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