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10 Best Movies Like The Possessors

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

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#1
The Exchange Student

The Exchange Student

1967★ 6.8

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

Monsieur Bosquier, the owner of a private school, is far from pleased when his eldest son, Philippe, fails his end of year exams. He decides to send his wayward offspring to Englan...

#2
Maigret Sets a Trap

Maigret Sets a Trap

1958★ 7.0

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

Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret pieces the clues together, he ...

#3
Don't Come Knocking

Don't Come Knocking

2005★ 6.2

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

Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die ...

#4
The Cow and I

The Cow and I

1959★ 6.7

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

In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way....

#5
Manon

Manon

1949★ 6.9

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

Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis, and Rob...

#6
The Magnificent Tramp

The Magnificent Tramp

1959★ 7.0

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

Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy....