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10 Best Movies Like Code Unknown

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

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#1
The Public Woman

The Public Woman

1984★ 5.9

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

An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and i...

#2
The Passengers of the Night

The Passengers of the Night

2022★ 6.9

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

On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end and s...

#3
Coup de Chance

Coup de Chance

2023★ 6.2

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

Fanny and Jean have everything of an ideal couple: fulfilled in their professional life, they live in a magnificent apartment in the beautiful districts of Paris and seem to be in ...

#4
Breathless

Breathless

1960★ 7.5

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

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him....

#5
My Little Loves

My Little Loves

1974★ 6.8

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

Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after a year of high school, goes to live with his mother in the south of France; a harsher environment which rapidly changes his perception ...

#6
Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

2003★ 7.3

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

Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she ...

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