Movies like The Mad Women's Ball
The Mad Women's Ball (2021) is a thriller movie directed by Mélanie Laurent. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. The Round Up (2010)
★ 7.5 · 1,054 votes · Drama, History, War
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
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2. Greta (2019)
★ 6.5 · 1,502 votes · Mystery, Thriller, Drama
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.
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3. The Emperor of Paris (2018)
★ 6.3 · 539 votes · Drama, Crime, Thriller
Paris, 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 chief, he makes a bold decision that will turn the ruthless mastermind of the Parisian underworld against him.
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4. Les Misérables (2019)
★ 7.6 · 1,633 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
Stéphane 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 members of the team – he quickly discovers tensions running high between local gangs. When the trio finds themselves overrun during the course of an arrest, a drone captures the encounter, threatening to expose the reality of everyday life.
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5. The Tenant (1976)
★ 7.6 · 1,272 votes · Thriller, Mystery, Drama
A 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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6. Irreversible (2002)
★ 7.2 · 3,459 votes · Drama, Thriller, Crime
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 natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.
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7. Kompromat (2022)
★ 6.3 · 302 votes · Thriller, 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 help of the FSB, someone has built up a case to frame him. Isolated, he has no one to turn to. Proving his innocence is impossible: the only solution is to escape.
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8. The Number 23 (2007)
★ 6.4 · 3,658 votes · Thriller, Mystery, Crime
Animal 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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9. 15 Minutes of War (2019)
★ 6.8 · 327 votes · War, Action, Drama
February 1976. Somalian rebels hijack a school bus carrying 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City. When the terrorists drive it to a no-man’s-land on the border between Somalia and French territory, the French Government sends out a newly formed elite squad to rescue the hostages. Within a few hours, the highly trained team arrives to the crisis area, where the Somalian National Army has taken position behind the barbed wire on the border. The French unit is left with very few options to rescue the hostages. As the volatile situation unravels, the French men quickly come up with a daring plan: carry out a simultaneous 5 men sniper attack to get the children and the teacher out safely. A true story.
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