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10 Best Movies Like Les Misérables

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

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#1
The Best Is Yet to Come

The Best Is Yet to Come

2019★ 6.8

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

Following a huge misunderstanding, two friends always decide to tackle everything to make up for lost time....

#2
The Specials

The Specials

2019★ 7.8

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

For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have lived in a different world—the world of autistic children and teens. In charge of two separate nonprofit organizations (The Hatch & The Shelt...

#3
Gloria Mundi

Gloria Mundi

2019★ 6.3

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

Daniel leaves prison. He returns to Marseilles where Mathilda, his daughter, has just given birth. Nicolas, her spouse, a self-employed driver, is exhausted while Mathilda is a sal...

#4
15 Minutes of War

15 Minutes of War

2019★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Les Misérables for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

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 bet...

#5
Night Shift

Night Shift

2020★ 5.2

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

Three officers are tasked with escorting an illegal immigrant to Charles de Gaulle airport, where he will be forced onto a plane and sent back to his homeland. But when they find o...

#6
Street Flow

Street Flow

2019★ 6.9

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

Noumouké, from the suburb of Paris, is about to decide which brother's foot steps to follow - the lawyer student Soulaymaan or the gangster Demba....