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Movies Like North

If you liked North (1992), a drama movie directed by Xavier Beauvois, 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. 1Élisa

    Élisa (1995)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past…

  2. 2Juliette in Spring

    Juliette in Spring (2024)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Juliette goes back in her hometown to spend some time with her family. She finds herself between a loving but moody father, a New Age mother, a sister in the midst of an existential crisis, and a grandmother slowly…

  3. 3The Last Woman

    The Last Woman (1976)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son.

  4. 4Kompromat

    Kompromat (2022)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Mathieu, a member of the French institute in Irkutsk, is arrested overnight by the Russian authorities. Imprisoned and accused of sexual abuse on his own daughter, he realises he is a victim of a Kompromat. With the…

  5. 5Most

    Most (2003)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    A poetic and powerful story of a father forced to choose between love and duty.

  6. 6In the Beginning

    In the Beginning (2009)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    France, present day. A professional conman passes himself off as the boss of a construction site building a highway extension. He cons the whole region, hires dozens of workers and cynically enjoys the profits of his…

  7. 7Stillwater

    Stillwater (2021)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers…

  8. 8My Little Loves

    My Little Loves (1974)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after a year of high school, goes to live with his mother in the south of France; a harsher environment which rapidly changes his perception of friends, work, and women.

  9. 9Out of Control

    Out of Control (2025)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    Julien and Marie have enjoyed 15 years of seemingly stable marriage until Anaëlle, Julien’s childhood flame, returns. Her sudden presence awakens old insecurities in Marie, who begins to doubt Julien’s devotion and…

  10. 10Blast

    Blast (2022)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    In a Parisian parking lot Sonia finds herself trapped in her car with her son and the daughter of her boyfriend Fred, who has been left outside, powerless to deal with the situation: an anti-tank mine has been set…

  11. 11The Origin of Evil

    The Origin of Evil (2022)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    In a luxurious seaside villa, a modest young woman finds herself in the company of a strange family: an unknown and wealthy father, his extravagant wife, his daughter, an ambitious woman, a rebellious teenager, and…

  12. 12Only the Animals

    Only the Animals (2019)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Following the disappearance of the glamorous and secretive Evelyne Ducat during a blizzard in the highlands of southern France, the lives of five people inextricably linked to Evelyne are brought together to…

  13. 13Little Boy Blue

    Little Boy Blue (1998)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The…

  14. 1424 Days

    24 Days (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".

  15. 15The Dazzled

    The Dazzled (2019)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    Camille, is the eldest of a large family. One day, her parents enter a religious community which gradually, regimentation becomes sectarian and Camille will have to fight to assert her freedom and save her brothers and…

  16. 16Chaos

    Chaos (2001)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady…

  17. 17Daddy Longlegs

    Daddy Longlegs (2010)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny hosts his kids within a midtown studio apartment…

  18. 18Out of Love

    Out of Love (2025)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    When Jeanne, a meticulous insurance assessor, is suddenly left to care for her estranged sister’s two children after their mother vanishes, her carefully ordered life begins to unravel. Confronted with unexpected…

  19. 19Saint Omer

    Saint Omer (2022)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and…

  20. 20Declaration of War

    Declaration of War (2011)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others. Except that their little boy, Adam, behaves…

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