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10 Best Movies Like Freedom

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

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#1
The Minister

The Minister

2011★ 6.4

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

Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene ...

#2
The Passengers of the Night

The Passengers of the Night

2022★ 6.9

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

On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end and s...

#3
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#4
A Secret

A Secret

2007★ 6.4

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

In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family histo...

#5
School of Life

School of Life

2017★ 7.4

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

Paris 1930. Paul has only ever had one and the same horizon: the high walls of the orphanage, an austere building in the Parisian working class suburbs. Entrusted to a joyful count...

#6
I’m Going Home

I’m Going Home

2001★ 6.7

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

The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car cra...

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