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10 Best Movies Like Le rêve d'Esther

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

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#1
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Le rêve d'Esther for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

#2
Haute Couture

Haute Couture

2021★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Le rêve d'Esther for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Esther is at the end of her career as Head Seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop. One day, she gets her handbag stolen in the metro by a 20 years old girl, Jade. Instead of ...

#3
Under the Stars of Paris

Under the Stars of Paris

2021★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Le rêve d'Esther for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Christine’s life has not been easy lately. Her lonely routine is divided between free food banks distributions and wandering the streets. On a cold winter night she founds Suli, an...

#4
The Passengers of the Night

The Passengers of the Night

2022★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Le rêve d'Esther 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...

#5
Time of the Wolf

Time of the Wolf

2003★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Le rêve d'Esther for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A middle-class family flees an unspecified disaster that has struck the city and takes refuge in their country home. They think this will allow them to escape the chaos, but they s...

#6
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Le rêve d'Esther for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, his ex-speechwriter and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about poli...

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