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10 Best Movies Like Promises

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

#1
Mali Twist

Mali Twist

2022★ 6.3

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

Mali, 1960. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from the West and dream of political renewal. Samba, a young socialist, falls for spirited Lar...

#2
Wild Seas

Wild Seas

2022★ 5.9

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

A couple of fisher-folk are joined by a young new apprentice in the middle of a raging storm....

#3
Leonora addio

Leonora addio

2022★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Promises for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A tale of the three funerals for the ashes of Italian writer Luigi Pirandello intertwined with a murder committed by a young Sicilian immigrant boy in 1930s Brooklyn for what is de...

#4
Comedy of Power

Comedy of Power

2006★ 6.3

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

Magistrate Jeanne Charmant-Killman doggedly investigates CEO Michel Humeau, who is accused of participating in massive corporate malfeasance. As her investigation leads her into th...

#5
Love Is Better Than Life

Love Is Better Than Life

2022★ 5.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Promises for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Upon their release from prison twen­ty years ear­li­er, Gérard, Ary and Philippe asked them­selves if hon­esty was not the best rack­et of them all. Today, they are insep­a­ra­ble ...

#6
Atlantide

Atlantide

2022★ 7.1

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

Daniele is a young man from Sant’Erasmo, an island on the edges of the Venice Lagoon. He lives on his wits, isolated even from his peer group who are busy exploring an existence of...