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10 Best Movies Like Only the Fire

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

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#1
Final Set

Final Set

2021★ 6.1

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

Thomas was once renowned as a young tennis prodigy, but never had the career he hoped for. At 37, despite his declining physical fitness and shattered knee he decides to compete in...

#2
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

#3
Angels of Sin

Angels of Sin

1943★ 6.9

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

A well-off young woman decides to become a nun, joining a convent that rehabilitates female prisoners. Through their program, she meets a woman named Thérèse who refuses any help b...

#4
Pasha

Pasha

1968★ 6.7

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

Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigat...

#5
A Distant Neighborhood

A Distant Neighborhood

2010★ 7.1

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

Thomas, a father in his fifties, returns by chance to the town where he grew up. He collapses and wakes up forty years earlier in the body of his teenage self. Thrown back into his...

#6
Élisa

Élisa

1995★ 6.4

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

Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Par...

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