Movies like Prophetess (2026)
The best movies like Prophetess (2026) are Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know (2020), Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020) and Secrets of the Neanderthals (2024). If Prophetess hooked you with its mystery and documentary, these 27 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedUrban Legend (1998)6.1/10 from 1,769 votes
- NewestFrühlingsgold (2026)Released 2026
- In FrenchThe Revelation of the Pyramids (2010)Also in French
Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know (2020)
Black holes stand at the limit of what we can know. To explore that edge of knowledge, the Event Horizon Telescope links observatories across the world to simulate an earth-sized instrument. With this tool the team pursues the first-ever picture of a black hole, resulting in an image seen by billions of people in April 2019. Meanwhile, Hawking and his team attack the black hole paradox at the heart of theoretical physics—Do predictive laws still function, even in these massive distortions of space and time? Weaving them together is a third strand, philosophical and exploratory using expressive animation. “Edge” is about practicing science at the highest level, a film where observation, theory, and philosophy combine to grasp these most mysterious objects.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both documentary & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020)
This remarkable journey across our planet and universe explores how meteorites, shooting stars, and deep impacts have awoken our wonder about other realms—and make us rethink our destinies.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both documentary & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSecrets of the Neanderthals (2024)
This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record tells us about their lives and disappearance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both documentary & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMisha and the Wolves (2021)
A woman’s Holocaust memoir takes the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher-turned-detective reveals her story as an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both documentary & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Revelation of the Pyramids (2010)
For centuries, the Great Pyramids have fascinated Mankind. Patrice Pooyard's The Revelation Of The Pyramids reveals what lies behind the greatest of archaeological mysteries: a message of paramount importance for humanity. From China to Peru, from Egypt to Mexico, through the world's most enigmatic and most beautiful sites, the director has spent 6 years meeting eminent scientific specialists and verifying his discoveries. The result will shake the teaching of history to its very core, and revolutionize Egyptology entirely. A great odyssey along a breathtaking route climaxes in a revelation as unexpected as it is staggering.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both documentary & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDerren Brown: Miracle (2016)
Illusionist Derren Brown reinvents the concept of "faith healing" through a series of stunts that debunk the confines of fear, pain and disbelief.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both documentary & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTalhotblond (2009)
This is the true story of a love triangle that takes place entirely online. Lies lead to murder in real life, as a teenage vixen (screen name 'talhotblond') lures men into her web. Revealing a shocking true crime story that shows the Internet's power to unleash our most dangerous fantasies.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both documentary & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWekufe: The Origin of Evil (2016)
A student travels with her boyfriend to Chiloé, remote Patagonia island in southern Chile, to investigate the link that exists between the high number of sexual related crimes and the myths 'n' legends that surround this mysterious place.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both mystery & thriller
Urban Legend (1998)
A college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLuciano's Successor (2024)
In order to hunt down a missing artifact, two detectives interrogate the recently captured master thief Arsenia Beaumont. But Arsenia is not one to let her secrets be known to just anyone. Only one detective has ever earned her respect. The detectives must prove they are worthy opponents if they want to finish their case.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller
Maman (2025)
Marie-Hélène, my mother, is retiring and takes with her her memories, her anxieties and the mental burden of having raised three children while working full time. As she works her last shift as a home nurse, her thoughts jostle and harmonize in a whirlwind similar to a panic attack.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary
Karihwanoron: Precious Things (2017)
Yagorihwanirats, a Mohawk child from Kahnawake Mohawk Territory in Quebec, attends a unique and special school: Karihwanoron. It is a Mohawk immersion program that teaches Mohawk language, culture and philosophy. Yagorihwanirats is so excited to go to school that she never wants to miss a day – even if she is sick.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary
Looking Back Before You Leap (2023)
A collection of memories from a tumultuous time at University.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary
Sin piedad (2025)
Under the relentless sun, a killer stalks through the mountains, where the innocence of a young couple becomes prey. With no shadows to hide their fate, the hunt is a macabre game in broad daylight, where fear is not hidden in the darkness, but burns with the rawness of the unperturbed noon.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller
Jack Kerouac's Road: A Franco-American Odyssey (1987)
Part documentary, part drama, this film presents the life and work of Jack Kerouac, an American writer with Québec roots who became one of the most important spokesmen for his generation. Intercut with archival footage, photographs and interviews, this film takes apart the heroic myth and even returns to the childhood of the author whose life and work contributed greatly to the cultural, sexual and social revolution of the 1960s.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary
Glasswork (2022)
Like at the New Year’s Eve, showers of colourful light cut through the darkness. While fireworks dissolve into nothing after a thunderous sound, shattered glass leaves material artifact. Sharp pieces then become a reminder of the real track that fireworks leave in the sky.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary
The Statue of Giordano Bruno (2005)
This film was made out of the capture of a live animation performance presented in Rome in January 2005 by Pierre Hébert and the musician Bob Ostertag. It is based on live action shooting done that same afternoon on the Campo dei Fiori where the philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned by the Inquisition in 1600. A commemorative statue was erected in the 19th century, that somberly dominate the market held everyday on the piazza. The film is about the resurgence of the past in this place where normal daily activities go on imperturbably. The capture of the performance was reworked, shortened and complemented with more studio performances.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary
Sky Spirits (2010)
The basis of the experimental film Sky Spirits are real-life shots of fireworks. The authors of the film have collected these shots from the year 2001. to 2008. The experiment explores the ultimate limits of fireworks as sources of light, showing this through real-life dynamic light patters which are led through video processors, resulting in chromatically rich animated samples. The material is "laboratory" processed and then formed into a film unit, while respecting the dramaturgy of fireworks. The original sound was used, which was, of course, subsequently processed, too. The whole work process is a kind of "homage to the tape" because the entire work is completely recorded and realised on digital video tapes, without using any kind of computer program.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary
Wintopia (2019)
IDFA and Canadian filmmaker Peter Wintonick had a close relationship for decades. He was a hard worker and often far from home, visiting festivals around the world. In 2013, he died after a short illness. His daughter Mira was left behind with a whole lot of questions, and a box full of videotapes that Wintonick shot for his Utopia project. She resolved to investigate what sort of film he envisaged, and to complete it for him.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary
Leftovers (2016)
When Eve is granted furlough for a day, she realises the difference between making a plan and acting on it.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both mystery
Wizard Cave (2025)
Trapped in a monotonous office life, Ralph longs for more. After discovering a mysterious file called Magic Cave, he journeys to a remote cave, where an ancient wizard tests whether he fulfills a long-forgotten legend.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both mystery
Malartic (2024)
Ten years after an enormous open-pit gold mine began operations in Malartic, the hoped-for economic miracle is nothing more than a mirage. Filmmaker Nicolas Paquet explores the glaring contrast between the town’s decline and the wealth of the mining company, along with the mechanisms of an opaque decision-making system in which ordinary people have little say. Part anthropological study, part investigation into the corridors of power, Malartic addresses the fundamental issue of sustainable and fair land management.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Prophetess?
The closest matches to Prophetess are Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know (2020), Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020) and Secrets of the Neanderthals (2024). Below are 24 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Prophetess?
Start with Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know (2020), the closest match to Prophetess.
What is the highest-rated movie like Prophetess?
Urban Legend (1998), rated 6.1/10 by 1,769 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Prophetess?
Frühlingsgold (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Prophetess?
Yes: The Revelation of the Pyramids (2010), Maman (2025) and Frühlingsgold (2026).
How are movies similar to Prophetess chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Prophetess, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.