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10 Best Movies Like The Young Lieutenant

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

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#1
Case 137

Case 137

2025★ 7.0

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

Stéphanie, a police officer working for Internal Affairs, is assigned to a case involving a young man severely wounded during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris. While she ...

#2
Le Samouraï

Le Samouraï

1967★ 7.8

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

After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless em...

#3
Gangsters

Gangsters

2002★ 6.6

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

Franck Chaievski and Nina Delgado are two undercover detectives of a French special force trying to identify two corrupts members of the Paris Police Force. Franck is pretending to...

#4
Monsieur Hire

Monsieur Hire

1989★ 7.2

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

A French man spies on a lovely younger woman across the way. When he's spotted by the woman shortly after being questioned by the police about a local murder, the man's simple life...

#5
Oh Mercy

Oh Mercy

2019★ 6.4

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

A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered on Christmas Eve. However, in a neighborhood rife with crime, everyone seems to be ...

#6
Razzia

Razzia

1955★ 6.7

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

Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough ...

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