Movies like The Dancer
If The Dancer's mix of dance, suicide and dancer stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Dancer's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Divines
2016 · Directed by Houda Benyamina · 105 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: dancer · Also a French drama · From the same decade (2010s)
In a ghetto where religion and drug trafficking rub shoulders, Dounia has a lust for power and success. Supported by Maimouna, her best friend, she decides to follow in the footsteps of Rebecca, a respected dealer.
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Three Colors: Blue
1993 · Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski · 98 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: france · Also a French drama
The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other…
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Happening
2021 · Directed by Audrey Diwan · 99 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: france · Also a French drama
France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background…
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Lust for Life
1956 · Directed by Vincente Minnelli · 122 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: suicide · Also drama and history
An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure.
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Elevator to the Gallows
1958 · Directed by Louis Malle · 92 min7.6
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
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The Tenant
1976 · Directed by Roman Polanski · 126 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: suicide
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
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Irreversible
2002 · Directed by Gaspar Noé · 97 min7.2
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal.
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The Mad Women's Ball
2021 · Directed by Mélanie Laurent · 122 min7.1
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
A woman who is unfairly institutionalized at a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel 'Le bal des folles' by Victoria Mas.
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The Beat That My Heart Skipped
2005 · Directed by Jacques Audiard · 107 min6.9
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career threaten to derail his musical aspirations.
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Farinelli
1994 · Directed by Gérard Corbiau · 111 min6.6
Why you'll like itAlso a French historical drama
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time.
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House of Pleasures
2011 · Directed by Bertrand Bonello · 126 min6.5
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama · From the same decade (2010s)
The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the women share…