Movies like A Perfect Man (2015)
The best movies like A Perfect Man (2015) are The Outsider (2016), Goliath (2022) and In the Shadow of Iris (2016). If A Perfect Man hooked you with its drama and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedLittle Tickles (2018)7.4/10 from 388 votes
- NewestGoliath (2022)Released 2022
- In FrenchThe Outsider (2016)Also in French
The Outsider (2016)
A drama about the less known aspects of the trading activity inside one of the biggest banks in the world - Société Générale. The movie tracks the rise and fall of anonymous trader turned superstar turned escape goat - Jérôme Kerviel - just as the 2008 financial crisis was unfolding
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGoliath (2022)
Patrick is a tenacious lawyer specializing in environmental law. France is a schoolteacher who becomes an activist after her husband develops cancer from exposure to a pesticide. Mathias is an ambitious lobbyist working for an international chemical corporation. The paths of these characters collide as the lives of thousands are affected by a tragic act that sparks a powerful movement while the corporation fights to prevent the truth from being revealed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn the Shadow of Iris (2016)
The sudden disappearance of a wealthy banker's wife cracks open a dizzying world of secret fetishes, desperate acts and elaborate deceptions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMade in France (2015)
Sam, a freelance journalist, decides to investigate the growing phenomenon of disaffected youth joining extremist groups. He infiltrates a group of four young people who have been tasked with the creation of a jihadist cell and whose mission is to destabilise the city centre of Paris.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll That Divides Us (2017)
A middle-class house in the middle of nowhere. A council estate in Sète. A mother and daughter. Two childhood friends. A vanishing. Blackmail. A clash between two worlds.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisCorporate (2017)
Emilie is a bright young workaholic manager in Human Resources, working for a huge French agro-food company. But, one day, one of the employees commits suicide at the company in front of her. While an investigation is underway, stuck between her traumatized colleagues and under pressure of a powerful hierarchy, she will have to get by on her own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFaultless (2016)
Constance, a 40-years-old real estate agent, gets fired from her job. With no options left, she contacts her former boss, from the small agency where she started her career. To her surprise, he is hiring, but explains he may have already found someone. Constance is convinced she will get the job because of her experience and extensive qualifications. But when Audrey, a younger and prettier woman, is hired instead, it proves too much for Constance to take.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNobody from Nowhere (2014)
Sebastien Nicolas is a reclusive realtor leading a double life – in his spare time he creates complex disguises based on acquaintances. Combined with minutely studied and rehearsed impersonations, Sebastien can disappear completely into other people's lives. Things spiral out of control after he impersonates the wrong man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAppearances (2020)
Ève and Henri are among the happy few of the French community in Vienna. They are “la crème de la crème”. The perfect picture crumbles when Ève discovers that Henri is cheating on her. On an impulse, she finds revenge with Jonas, a perfect young Austrian guy. But he’s not who she thought he was. This will lead them to an irreversible spiral.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Unknown Girl (2016)
Jenny, a young doctor who feels guilty after a young woman she refused to see winds up dead a few days later, decides to find out who the girl was, after the police can't identify the young woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThrough the Fire (2018)
Franck is a firefighter in Paris. He saves people. He lives at the station with his wife, who is about to have twins. He’s happy. During a call out to a fire, he puts himself in danger, to save his men. He’s going to have to learn to live again and accept to be the one being saved, this time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like this11.6 (2013)
In November 2009, French security van driver Toni Musulin makes off with nearly 12 million euros, then turns himself over to the authorities a week later.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisPromise at Dawn (2017)
From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLittle Tickles (2018)
Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Price of Success (2017)
A comedian's relationship with his family crumbles when his career begins to take off.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSomeone, Somewhere (2019)
Rémy and Mélanie live next door to each other in Paris but have never met. The two thirty-year-old Parisians search for connections online, but never have much success. Falling deeper into loneliness and depression, both decide to start attending regular therapy. With the help of their therapists, they uncover the real roots of their issues, and find that the connection they were both searching for is much closer than they thought.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNumber One Fan (2014)
Muriel Bayen, a divorced beautician and mother of two, loves to tell stories. She is a huge fan of this singer Vincent Lacroix, in fact she is a dedicated fan. One day Vincent knock on her door and ask for her help.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll Together (2012)
Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternative to living in a retirement home. Joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCapital (2012)
The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Teacher (2017)
Teacher in the most prestigious highschool in the country, François enjoys the life he’s always known, in the intellectual and bourgeois society of Paris. Trapped in a situation where he’s forced to accept a job in a school of a tough underprivileged suburb, he finds himself confronted to his own limits and to the upheaval of his values and certainties.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBurn Out (2018)
Tony, a promising young motorcycle racer, is forced to do perilous drug runs to save the mother of his child from a dangerous mobster.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Big Picture (2010)
Paul Exben is a success story – partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight out of a Gap catalog. But when he finds out that Sarah, his wife, is cheating on him with Greg Kremer, a local photographer, a rush of blood provokes Paul into a fatal error.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisK.O. (2017)
A CEO for a television channel finds his life torn apart after he wakes up from coma.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisParis (2008)
Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Big Hit (2020)
Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to stage Samuel Beckett’s famous play Waiting for Godot. When he is allowed to take the colorful band of convicts on a tour outside of prison, Etienne finally has the chance to thrive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMy Way (2012)
A biopic of French pop star Claude Francois, most famous for co-writing the song 'My Way'. Tracing his life from his childhood in Egypt through his success in France to his untimely death in Paris in 1978.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Best Is Yet to Come (2019)
Following a huge misunderstanding, two friends always decide to tackle everything to make up for lost time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCounter Investigation (2007)
A cop investigates whether the man convicted of murdering his daughter is really guilty.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCa$h (2008)
A man meets up with two "good guys" to recover what is unlawfully his, taking them on his whirlwind ride, doing things they never would have imagined, just to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisLes Cowboys (2015)
Drama about a father and son who set out to find their missing daughter/sister with the help of an American headhunter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like A Perfect Man?
The closest matches to A Perfect Man are The Outsider (2016), Goliath (2022) and In the Shadow of Iris (2016). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after A Perfect Man?
People who watched A Perfect Man most often go on to The Outsider (2016), Goliath (2022) and In the Shadow of Iris (2016).
What is the highest-rated movie like A Perfect Man?
Little Tickles (2018), rated 7.4/10 by 388 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like A Perfect Man?
Goliath (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like A Perfect Man?
Yes: The Outsider (2016), Goliath (2022) and In the Shadow of Iris (2016).
How are movies similar to A Perfect Man chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside A Perfect Man, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.