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Movies like Ohnivé jaro (1995)

The best movies like Ohnivé jaro (1995) are What Maisie Knew (2013), All Day and a Night (2020) and Chaos (2001). If Ohnivé jaro hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. What Maisie Knew (2013)

    In New York City, six-year-old Maisie is caught in the middle of a bitter custody battle between her self-absorbed parents—an aging rock singer mother and a distracted art dealer father. As both quickly marry new partners to strengthen their legal standing, Maisie is shuttled back and forth in an endless game of emotional point-scoring. Yet amid the chaos and upheaval, Maisie begins to find true comfort and affection in her new step-parents.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  2. All Day and a Night (2020)

    While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  3. Chaos (2001)

    A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady, first for her survival-her resurrection-then for her dignity and freedom. Stormy encounters for everyone involved.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  4. Juliette in Spring (2024)

    Juliette goes back in her hometown to spend some time with her family. She finds herself between a loving but moody father, a New Age mother, a sister in the midst of an existential crisis, and a grandmother slowly losing her mind. Buried memories and family secrets rise to the surface in this sweet, tender and sometimes extravagant family portrait.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  5. The Truth About Emanuel (2013)

    A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  6. 24 Days (2014)

    When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  7. Omar Killed Me (2011)

    In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal is found murdered in the basement of her home with the message "Omar M'a Tuer" (Omar has kill me) written beside in her own blood. Despite a lack of forensic or DNA evidence, her Moroccan gardener Omar Raddad is found guilty and sentenced to 18 years in a French prison. Shocked by the case, and convinced of his innocence, journalist Pierre-Emmanuel Vaugrenard moves to Nice to investigate, and uncover the truth...

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  8. Kompromat (2022)

    Mathieu, a member of the French institute in Irkutsk, is arrested overnight by the Russian authorities. Imprisoned and accused of sexual abuse on his own daughter, he realises he is a victim of a Kompromat. With the help of the FSB, someone has built up a case to frame him. Isolated, he has no one to turn to. Proving his innocence is impossible: the only solution is to escape.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  9. Love Me No More (2008)

    Antoine Méliot is around 40 years old and has everything he needs to be happy: a beautiful wife, two adorable children, friends he can count on, a pretty house in the Yvelines and money. But one day he decides to ruin everything in one weekend.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  10. Goodbye June (2025)

    Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  11. Mindwalk (1991)

    On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philosophy and life over the course of a single day.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  12. Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

    A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  13. Young Mothers (2025)

    Housed in a shelter for young mothers, Jessica, Perla, Julia, Ariane, and Naïma, all of whom have grown up in difficult circumstances, struggle to obtain a better life for themselves and their children.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  14. The Beasts (2022)

    Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic except for their opposition to a wind turbine project that creates a serious conflict with their neighbors. The tension will rise to the point of irreparability.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  15. On the Edge (2022)

    One night, Leo, a Spaniard working in Brussels as a subway driver, sees a young man on the edge of the platform, just before he falls onto the tracks.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  16. A Single Girl (1995)

    A young Parisian must make major decisions about pregnancy, a job, and her boyfriend.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

  17. The Young One (1960)

    A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  18. The Long Absence (1961)

    Therese, a café owner, mourns the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A tramp arrives in the town and she believes him to be her husband. But he is suffering from amnesia and she tries to bring back his memory of earlier times.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  19. The Gypsy (1975)

    Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  20. Three Days and a Life (2019)

    Christmas 1999, in a peaceful little village in the Ardennes. The life of a young boy named Antoine will soon be devastated by three tragic events : the death of a dog, the vanishing of a child, and a big ravaging storm.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  21. Waves (2024)

    At the end of the 1960s, when the air is filled with rock-and-roll and student rebellions are changing the world, the older of two brothers joins a prestigious newsroom of the public radio broadcaster. Not long after, he finds himself in the middle of a dangerous conflict between journalists and the secret service.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

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  22. Za volantem nepřítel (1975)

    Summer 1968: The crisis is reaching its peak. The director of the Prague taxi service, Mudroch, rejects the drivers' absurd demands for a pay increase. The taxi drivers decide to go on strike and seek support against Murdoch from trade unionists and enemies of the regime. The director is convinced that honest communists like him cannot be defeated. However, hateful vandals damage the brakes in his car...

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  23. Beloved (2011)

    From Paris in the 1960s to London in the first decade of the third millennium, Madeleine and her daughter Véra flit from one amorous adventure to the next, living for the moment and taking all the opportunities that life offers. But not every love affair is without its consequences, its upsets and its disappointments. As time goes by and gnaws away at one’s deepest feelings, love becomes a harder game to play.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

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  24. The Man Who Stood In the Way (2023)

    A drama that tells the story of the physician and politician MUDr. František Kriegel, the hero of the Prague Spring of 1968, who was arrested and kidnapped to Moscow on the night of August 21st together with five leaders of the party and the state (Dubček, Černík, Smrkovský, Špaček and Šimon). He was the only Czechoslovak politician who managed to stand up to Brezhnev in Moscow captivity, even under the threat of liquidation, and not to sign the Moscow Protovol which meant agreeing to the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  25. Gli angeli del potere (1990)

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  26. That Trip We Took with Dad (2016)

    Romania, 1968. Two very different brothers. Mihai is a secret police informant, Emil is a dedicated dissident. When they have the opportunity to have their ailing father’s eyes operated on in East Germany, the three set out on a moving odyssey.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  27. Invasion (1980)

    Docu-drama surrounding the events leading to the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  28. Deckname Holec (2016)

    Young director Honza David films the Russian invasion in in Prague in August 1968. With Eva the love of his life he tries to get out of the country. He wants to bring the explosive material to Vienna, to the director of the Austrian Television Helmut Zilk. He knows Eva very well but the Czech Secret Service even better ...

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  29. The Man on the Bridge (2025)

    A feature about philosophy, perception and imprisonment in Aldo Lado's Giallo "Short Night of Glass Dolls".

    Why it matches: Similar story and style

  30. Reconstruction of Occupation (2021)

    Documentary filmmaker Jan Sikl came across several hours of footage showing the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in private film archives. 53 years later, historical memory awakens from a long slumber with this reconstruction of the occupation, a cinematic adventure of a truly archeological nature.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like Ohnivé jaro?

The closest matches to Ohnivé jaro are What Maisie Knew (2013), All Day and a Night (2020) and Chaos (2001). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Ohnivé jaro?

Start with What Maisie Knew (2013), the closest match to Ohnivé jaro.

What is the highest-rated movie like Ohnivé jaro?

The Beasts (2022), rated 7.5/10 by 1,000 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Ohnivé jaro?

Goodbye June (2025) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there French movies like Ohnivé jaro?

Yes: Chaos (2001), Juliette in Spring (2024) and 24 Days (2014).

How are movies similar to Ohnivé jaro chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Ohnivé jaro, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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