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10 Best Movies Like The Big House

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

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#1
Promises

Promises

2022★ 6.3

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

Clémence, the fearless mayor of a town near Paris, is completing the final term of her political career. With her faithful right-hand man Yazid, she has long fought for this town p...

#2
My Little Princess

My Little Princess

2011★ 6.5

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

Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is an unpredictable photographer ...

#3
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1996★ 7.1

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

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devot...

#4
Just to Be Sure

Just to Be Sure

2017★ 6.4

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

Erwan, a strapping Breton who clears mines for a living, is shaken when he discovers that his father is not his father. Despite his affection for the man who raised him, he quietly...

#5
Chaos

Chaos

2001★ 6.3

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

A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, ...

#6
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Big House 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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