Movies Like The Mad Women's Ball
If you liked The Mad Women's Ball (2021), a thriller and drama movie directed by Mélanie Laurent, 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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The Round Up (2010)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and historyA faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
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Plan A (2021)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and dramaGermany 1945, Max, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, meets a radical group of Jewish resistance fighters, who, like him, lost all hope for their future after they were robbed of their existence and their entire families…
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The Emperor of Paris (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and thrillerParis, France, early 19th century. The legendary convict François Vidocq lives in disguise trying to escape from a tragic past that torments him. When, after an unfortunate event, he crosses paths with the police…
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A Perfect Enemy (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and thrillerFamed architect Jeremy Angust is approached on his trip to the Paris Airport by a chatty girl named Texel Textor who needs a ride. He obliges and after they part ways at the airport entrance, he misses his flight. As…
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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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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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Les Misérables (2019)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and thrillerStéphane has recently joined the Anti-Crime Squad in Montfermeil, in the suburbs of Paris, France, where Victor Hugo set his famed novel “Les Miserables”. Alongside his new colleagues Chris and Gwada – both experienced…
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Spider (2002)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller and dramaA mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
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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 Rays and Shadows (2026)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and historyJean and Otto, a French newspaperman and a young German Francophile, are fighting for peace in Europe. Jean’s daughter, Corinne, is launching a brilliant acting career in the film world, but war breaks out and France…
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Apaches: Gang of Paris (2023)
★ 6/10Also drama and thrillerParis, 1884. The lives of three orphaned children wandering the streets dominated by ruthless criminals change tragically when they carry out a daring robbery.
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Sister My Sister (1994)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and thrillerA true story of shocking violence catapults a picturesque little town into history. The close sibling relationship between the two maids takes on a new dimension as their overbearing employer discovers a sexual fever…
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Kompromat (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller and dramaMathieu, 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…
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The Number 23 (2007)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and dramaAnimal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.
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Flic Story (1975)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and dramaThe film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy…
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Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and thrillerJacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents…
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Inglourious Basterds (2009)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and thrillerIn 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…
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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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M (1951)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and thrillerIn the city, someone is murdering children. The police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.
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Shutter Island (2010)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and thrillerWorld War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.