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10 Best Movies Like Paula

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

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#1
Herself

Herself

2020★ 6.7

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

Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws...

#2
Haute Couture

Haute Couture

2021★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Paula 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
School of Life

School of Life

2017★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Paula 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...

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Paula 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...

#5
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Paula 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...

#6
The Kindness of Strangers

The Kindness of Strangers

2019★ 6.3

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

Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who get...

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