Movies Like Paris Belongs to Us

If you liked Paris Belongs to Us (1961), a mystery and drama movie directed by Jacques Rivette, 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.

1
The Tenant (1976)
★ 7.6/10Also thriller and mystery
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
2
Caché (2005)
★ 7/10Also mystery and drama
As 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…
3
Greta (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also mystery and thriller
A 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.
4
Femme Fatale (2002)
★ 6.2/10Also mystery and thriller
A $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…
5
Ares (2016)
★ 6/10Also drama and thriller
In 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…
6
The Commuter (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and mystery
A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.
7
Mothers' Instinct (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and mystery
When a sudden tragedy uproots the lives of two women and their families, they begin to question the relationships they once held so dear.
8
Trigger Point (2021)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and mystery
Nicolas Shaw is a retired U.S. special operative who becomes part of an elite 'invisible' team that quietly takes out the worst villains around the world.
9
Blow-Up (1966)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and mystery
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death…
10
The Adversary (2002)
★ 6.6/10Also mystery and drama
Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist Jean-Marc Faure (Auteuil) pursues an imaginary career as a doctor of…
11
The Serpent's Egg (1977)
★ 6.2/10Also mystery and drama
In 1923 Berlin, following the suicide of his brother, an American acrobat struggles to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism, and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.
12
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and thriller
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The…
13
Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller and mystery
When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d'Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking…
14
Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and thriller
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
15
Irreversible (2002)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and thriller
A 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…
16
Dream Lover (1994)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and mystery
Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman…
17
Chloe (2010)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and thriller
Catherine and David Stewart are a well-to-do couple living in a posh area of Toronto, but all is not well in paradise. Catherine suspects that David is cheating on her, so she hires an escort named Chloe to meet David…
18
Triage (2009)
★ 6/10Also drama and thriller
The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.
19
Nocturama (2016)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and thriller
Some young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center.
20
The Mad Women's Ball (2021)
★ 7.1/10Also thriller and drama
A 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.