Movies like Les Misérables
Les Misérables (1998) is a crime movie directed by Bille August. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. The Longest Yard (2005)
★ 6.7 · 3,815 votes · Drama, Comedy, Crime
Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution's football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a tune-up game which lands him quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against the guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach and player Nate Scarborough, Crewe and his team must overcome not only the bloodthirstiness of the opposition, but also the corrupt warden trying to fix the game against them.
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2. The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
★ 7.7 · 2,132 votes · Adventure, Drama, History
Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
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3. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
★ 7.9 · 1,922 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
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4. Richard Jewell (2019)
★ 7.4 · 2,828 votes · Drama, History, Crime
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.
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5. Winter's Tale (2014)
★ 6.3 · 1,438 votes · Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.
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6. Stillwater (2021)
★ 6.6 · 1,492 votes · Drama, Crime, Thriller
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, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.
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7. The Wrong Man (1956)
★ 7.1 · 634 votes · Crime, Drama
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
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8. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
★ 7.1 · 393 votes · Drama, Romance, Crime
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
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9. Goya's Ghosts (2006)
★ 6.6 · 550 votes · Drama, History
Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.
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