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10 Best Movies Like La Bête noire

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

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#1
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to La Bête noire 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...

#2
Kompromat

Kompromat

2022★ 6.3

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

Mathieu, a member of the French institute in Irkutsk, is arrested overnight by the Russian authorities. Imprisoned and accused of sexual abuse on his own daughter, he realises he ...

#3
Street Flow 3

Street Flow 3

2026★ 5.9

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

Grieving and facing the consequences of their crimes, the Traoré brothers get one last chance to forge a new path....

#4
Gloria Mundi

Gloria Mundi

2019★ 6.3

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

Daniel leaves prison. He returns to Marseilles where Mathilda, his daughter, has just given birth. Nicolas, her spouse, a self-employed driver, is exhausted while Mathilda is a sal...

#5
Élisa

Élisa

1995★ 6.4

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

Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Par...

#6
Saint Omer

Saint Omer

2022★ 6.2

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

A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues,...

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