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10 Best Movies Like Pierrot the Prodigal

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

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#1
Haute Couture

Haute Couture

2021★ 6.1

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

Esther is at the end of her career as Head Seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop. One day, she gets her handbag stolen in the metro by a 20 years old girl, Jade. Instead of ...

#2
Secret Name

Secret Name

2021★ 6.0

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

Nelie escaped a miserable existence by becoming a frontline nurse in 1914. One day, she takes the identity of Rose, a young woman from a good family, who dies in front of her. She ...

#3
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pierrot the Prodigal 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...

#4
The Minister

The Minister

2011★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pierrot the Prodigal 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 ...

#5
Heaven Will Wait

Heaven Will Wait

2016★ 7.0

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

Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when she meets a boy on the Internet...

#6
Fanny

Fanny

2013★ 6.8

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

"Fanny" is the second part of the "Marseille trilogy", made by Marcel Pagnol with the generic name of "Marius, Fanny and César". Fanny falls in love and is abandoned by Marius. Now...

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