Movies Like Nocturama
If you liked Nocturama (2016), a drama and thriller movie directed by Bertrand Bonello, 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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Made in France (2015)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and thrillerSam, a freelance journalist, decides to investigate the growing phenomenon of disaffected youth joining extremist groups. He infiltrates a group of four young people who have been tasked with the creation of a jihadist…
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Irreversible (2002)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and thrillerA woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a…
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The Devil, Probably (1977)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaCharles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, he decides that suicide is the…
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District B13 (2004)
★ 6.8/10Also thrillerSet in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.
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Ares (2016)
★ 6/10Also drama and thrillerIn a near future, the world order has changed. With its 10 millions of unemployed citizens, France has now become a poor country. Its people wavers between rebellion and resignation and find an outlet in the shape of…
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I Stand Alone (1999)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and thrillerAfter completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, the Butcher wants to start life anew. He institutionalizes his daughter and moves to the Lille suburbs with…
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The Tenant (1976)
★ 7.6/10Also thriller and dramaA quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
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Personal Shopper (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and thrillerMaureen, mid-20s, is a personal shopper for a media celebrity. The job pays for her stay in Paris, a city she refuses to leave until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes…
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Simon Killer (2012)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and thrillerA recent college graduate flees to Paris after a break-up, where his involvement with a prostitute begins to reveal a potentially dark recent past.
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Greta (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller and dramaA young woman returns a lonely widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers the widow might not be all that she seems.
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Femme Fatale (2002)
★ 6.2/10Also thrillerA $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enemies from Laure's secret…
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La Haine (1995)
★ 8.1/10Also dramaAfter a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously…
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The Day of the Jackal (1973)
★ 7.5/10Also thrillerAn international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
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Dheepan (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaThree war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.
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Caché (2005)
★ 7/10Also drama and thrillerAs the host of a literary TV show, Georges begins receiving anonymously filmed videos of his family alongside cryptic, disturbing drawings, but as the tapes become increasingly intimate, they reveal a stalker who has…
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The Mad Women's Ball (2021)
★ 7.1/10Also thriller and dramaA woman who is unfairly institutionalized at a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel 'Le bal des folles' by Victoria Mas.
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Unthinkable (2010)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and thrillerThe government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned interrogator and an FBI agent to find out exactly where the nukes…
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Dog 51 (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also thrillerIn the near future, Paris is divided into three zones that separate social classes, and no one can escape ALMA, a predictive AI that has revolutionized law enforcement. When ALMA’s creator is assassinated, Salia, a top…
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Just a Breath Away (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and thrillerWhen a deadly mist engulfs Paris, people find refuge in the upper floors of the buildings. With no information, no electricity and hardly any supplies, Mathieu, Anna and their daughter Sarah try to survive the disaster.
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Eden (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also dramaPaul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.