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10 Best Movies Like Frances

If you loved Frances, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

1946★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Frances for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he...

#2
Swing Shift

Swing Shift

1984★ 5.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Frances for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, she takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, th...

#3
The Notorious Bettie Page

The Notorious Bettie Page

2005★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Frances for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up photos made her the target of a ...

#4
Common Ground

Common Ground

2002★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Frances for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory ...

#5
Hungry Soul

Hungry Soul

1956★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Frances for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable busin...

#6
National Theatre Live: Obsession

National Theatre Live: Obsession

2017★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Frances for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Gino is a drifter, down-at-heel and magnetically handsome. At a road side restaurant he encounters husband and wife, Joseph and Hanna. Irresistibly attracted to each other, Gino an...