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10 Best Movies Like L'Assommoir

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

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#1
Paris 36

Paris 36

2008★ 6.1

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

A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of 1936, Paris is in a state of u...

#2
The Last Woman

The Last Woman

1976★ 6.1

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

Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son....

#3
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#4
Strange Affair

Strange Affair

1981★ 6.2

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

A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his family and friends, viewing it a...

#5
The Minister

The Minister

2011★ 6.4

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

Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene ...

#6
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

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