Movies like Sister (2012)
The best movies like Sister (2012) are Time to Leave (2005), Moka (2016) and Grand Central (2013). If Sister hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedI've Loved You So Long (2008)7.3/10 from 249 votes
- NewestNaughty (2023)Released 2023
- In FrenchTime to Leave (2005)Also in French
Time to Leave (2005)
Romain, 31, a fashion photographer with terminal cancer, elects to die alone, preparing others to live past him rather than prolong the inevitable with chemotherapy or be smothered in sympathy by those who know him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMoka (2016)
Diane Kramer is led by one obsession: to find the driver of the mocha color Mercedes which hit her son and devastated her life. With a few belongings, some money and a gun, she goes to Evian, where she's learned the driver lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGrand Central (2013)
A young unemployed man finds work at a nuclear power plant and begins an illicit affair with the fiancée of one of his senior workmates.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMurderous Maids (2000)
Based on the true story of two chambermaids of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYoung & Beautiful (2013)
Isabelle, a 17-year-old student, loses her virginity during a quick holiday romance. When she returns home, she begins a secret life as a prostitute for a year.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHome (2008)
Along with her husband and three children, Marthe lives in an eden of her own creation, nearly isolated from the rest of the world. The arrival of a construction vehicle, however, pierces their tranquil, hermetic existence—before long a disused highway has been re-opened, and the family finds their home situated in the midst of rush-hour traffic. While the privileges of clean air, quietude and privacy are thus denied them, Marthe remains determined to stay no matter the cost.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLourdes (2009)
In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBreathe (2014)
Charlie, a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt, is thrilled when she becomes friends with Sarah, but when Sarah tires of Charlie and looks for a new friend, their relationship takes an ominous turn.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThings to Come (2016)
Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie’s husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Salt of Tears (2020)
Luc travels to Paris for the first time to sit the entrance exam for a carpentry school. There he meets Djemila, a young worker with whom he enjoys a short romance, before returning to his home town and beginning a relationship with Geneviève, whom he has known since childhood. Caught between two passions, Luc runs, resolving to fulfil his father's dreams by devoting himself to his future... until finally, he experiences true love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAdoration (2013)
Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI've Loved You So Long (2008)
A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNathalie... (2004)
Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hoping to learn more about his extramarital activities, Catherine heads to a strip club, where she hires call girl Nathalie to have a fling with Gerard. As the affair progresses, Nathalie gives Catherine regular status reports, and the relationship between the women evolves from business to personal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBare (2015)
A young woman's friendship with a drug-dealing drifter evolves into a lesbian romance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSuzanne (2013)
The story of a family and a love affair told through the journey of a young woman called Suzanne.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFat Girl (2001)
Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is fifteen and devilishly beautiful. Neither more futile, nor more stupid than her younger sister, she cannot understand that she is merely an object of desire. And, as such, she can only be taken. Or had. Indeed, this is the subject: a girl's loss of virginity. And, that summer, it opens a door to tragedy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Dreamlife of Angels (1998)
Isa and Marie bond while working in a French sweatshop and soon begin sharing an apartment that Marie is watching for a hospitalized mother and daughter. Marie, hoping to avoid a life of struggle and poverty, takes up with Chriss, a nightclub owner whose most attractive asset is his money. Isa recognizes the ultimate futility of the relationship and tries to keep Marie away from him, but her interference puts their friendship at risk.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Adopted (2011)
Lisa and Marine live a life of relative companionship together, where the only man permitted into the equation is Lisa’s young son, Leo. However, their simple existence is thrown into disarray when Marie meets and falls in love with Alex, a customer at her bookshop. Lisa is left feeling excluded, and tension develop. But soon an unexpected accident forces all of those involved to reassess the situation and adopt a different position in each other’s lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThis Summer Feeling (2015)
In high summer, Sasha suddenly dies. Her death brings two virtual strangers, her boyfriend Lawrence and sister Zoé, closer together, sharing their grief and the burden of their loss in Berlin, Paris and New York.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisFidelity (2019)
A successful obstetrician living a seemingly stable married life begins to question her relationship when emotional and physical intimacy fades. Suspecting her husband of betrayal, she seeks connection elsewhere, stepping into a hidden world that offers desire, control, and escape. As she navigates this parallel existence, the boundaries between loyalty, loneliness, and self-discovery slowly begin to blur.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe New Girlfriend (2014)
A young woman makes a surprising discovery about the husband of her late best friend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHideaway (Le refuge) (2009)
Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day, they overdose and Louis dies. Mousse survives, but soon learns she's pregnant. Feeling lost, Mousse runs away to a house far from Paris. Several months later, Louis' brother joins her in her refuge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this17 Girls (2011)
When Camille accidentally becomes pregnant, she encourages her friends and fellow high school classmates to follow suit. It's only a matter of time, before seventeen girls in the high school are pregnant and the town is thrown into a world of chaos.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAlbatross (2011)
Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCéline (1992)
After the death of her father, 22-year-old Céline inherits most of his estate, but gives it to her stepmother, causing her greedy fiancé to leave her. Following several failed suicide attempts, Céline is hospitalized and comes to the attention of a nurse, Genevieve, who has struggled with depression. Under her personal care, Céline gradually recovers, and the two women grow close.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSlalom (2020)
15 year-old Lyz, a high school student in the French Alps, has been accepted to a highly selective ski club whose aim is to train future professional athletes. Taking a chance on his new recruit, Fred, ex-champion turned coach, decides to make Lyz his shining star regardless of her lack of experience. Under his influence, Lyz will have to endure more than the physical and emotional pressure of the training. Will Lyz’s determination help her escape his grip?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Little Princess (2011)
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 who lives off of the generosity of others. When Hannah forces her daughter to pose as a model, Violetta finds her life with her loving grandmother turned upside down.The resulting pictures quickly become a sensation for the trendy 70's Paris art scene, and Violetta finds herself caught in between her new stature as an art muse and her dull childhood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisViolette (2013)
Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's quest for freedom through writing and on Simone's conviction that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisNaughty (2023)
In order to prevent the construction of a skyscraper in an urban forest, Elya, a young environmental activist, accepts a challenge from the mega wealthy developer: If after spending seven days with him, she doesn't fall for him, he'll stop the project. During this time of luxury and passion, Elya becomes increasingly attracted to him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLe bonheur (2013)
Alice is 30 years old and lives a simple, uncomplicated life. She is happy, or at least thinks she is. This illusion comes crashing down when she meets Jean by chance and her existence is forever changed. In his 40s, Jean is a father and husband, but spends most of his time either working as a translator in a small office or with friends. He is unaware that his encounter with Alice will put into question his entire existence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Sister?
The closest matches to Sister are Time to Leave (2005), Moka (2016) and Grand Central (2013). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Sister?
People who watched Sister most often go on to Time to Leave (2005), Moka (2016) and Grand Central (2013).
What is the highest-rated movie like Sister?
I've Loved You So Long (2008), rated 7.3/10 by 249 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Sister?
Naughty (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Sister?
Yes: Time to Leave (2005), Moka (2016) and Grand Central (2013).
How are movies similar to Sister chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Sister, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.