Movies Like Paris Under Watch
If you liked Paris Under Watch (2012), a drama and thriller movie directed by Cédric Jimenez and Arnaud Duprey, 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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November (2022)
★ 7/10Also drama and thrillerIn November 2015, a series of unprecedented and deadly attacks hits Paris. The anti-terrorist police led by Heloise and her chief commander Fred face an unprecedented level of pressure. In a race against the clock…
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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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Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and thrillerA self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
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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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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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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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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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Yamakasi (2001)
★ 6/10Also dramaYamakasi - Les samouraïs des temps modernes is a 2001 French movie written by Luc Besson. It demonstrates the skills of the Yamakasi, a group of traceurs who battle against injustice in the Paris ghetto. They use…
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Bastille Day (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also thrillerMichael Mason is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals a bag that contains more than just a wallet. Sean Briar, the field agent on the case, soon realises that…
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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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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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Spy, Stand Up (1982)
★ 7.2/10Also thriller and dramaSebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative to discover how…
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Nocturama (2016)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and thrillerSome 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.
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Subway (1985)
★ 6.5/10Also thrillerFred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen some documents. While hiding out in the back rooms and conduits of the…
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From Paris with Love (2010)
★ 6.5/10Also thrillerJames Reese has a good job as an ambassador's aid in France, but his real passion is a side gig—working in a minor role in the CIA. He would love to be a full-fledged agent and can't believe his luck when he lands an…
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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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The Bourne Identity (2002)
★ 7.5/10Also thrillerWounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many…
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Code Unknown (2000)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in…
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Pasha (1968)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaSix months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his own, which leads him through…
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Only the Animals (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaFollowing 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…