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10 Best Movies Like Les Misérables

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

#1
Umberto D.

Umberto D.

1952★ 7.9

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

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by th...

#2
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Les Misérables for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#3
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#4
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Les Misérables for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...

#5
Ex Machina

Ex Machina

2015★ 7.6

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

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But ...

#6
Extraction

Extraction

2020★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Les Misérables for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A hardened gun-for-hire's latest mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son....