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10 Best Movies Like La Bête noire

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

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#1
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#2
School of Life

School of Life

2017★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to La Bête noire 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...

#3
Uncontrollable Circumstances

Uncontrollable Circumstances

1989★ 6.2

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

Philippe and Daniel decide to go on vacation Southeast Asia, where they meet Hans, a European who livesthere and he becomes their guide and host. Once the holidays are over, before...

#4
Kompromat

Kompromat

2022★ 6.3

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

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 ...

#5
For My Country

For My Country

2023★ 6.1

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

Aissa, a young officer of Algerian origin, tragically loses his life during a fresher initiation ritual at the prestigious French military academy of Saint-Cyr. As the death tears ...

#6
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

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