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10 Best Movies Like The Defect

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

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#1
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Defect 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...

#2
Haute Couture

Haute Couture

2021★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Defect 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 ...

#3
Street Flow 2

Street Flow 2

2023★ 6.1

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

Struggling to overcome cycles of betrayal, revenge and violence, the Traoré brothers continue to fight for a brighter future in a seedy Paris suburb....

#4
Secret Name

Secret Name

2021★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Defect 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 ...

#5
Street Flow 3

Street Flow 3

2026★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Defect 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....

#6
My Little Princess

My Little Princess

2011★ 6.5

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

Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is an unpredictable photographer ...

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