Movies like Made in France (2015)
The best movies like Made in France (2015) are Goliath (2022), A Perfect Man (2015) and The Outsider (2016). If Made in France 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 ratedPolisse (2011)7.7/10 from 1,338 votes
- NewestRebel (2022)Released 2022
- In FrenchGoliath (2022)Also in French
Goliath (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 thisA Perfect Man (2015)
A struggling writer finds a shortcut to fame, but a blackmailer threatens to ruin his perfect life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 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 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 thisClose Enemies (2018)
Driss and Manuel both grew up on the same council estate. An estate where the sense of belonging to your patch is much stronger than the sense of belonging to a country, a nation or a culture... Manuel has assimilated this belonging, and he has even benefited from it and built his life on it. Driss, meanwhile, has shunned it. They will both have to face up to the consequences of their decisions – because they will each have a price to pay…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisCarbone (2017)
In danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he will have to deal with betrayal, murder and settling.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisThe Anarchists (2015)
Set in 1899 Paris, a young police sergeant is chosen to infiltrate a group of anarchists, an opportunity he sees to rise through the ranks. However, he soon finds himself becoming attached to the group.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Witnesses (2007)
Paris, 1984. A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSecrets of State (2008)
In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to secrecy, these masters of manipulation follow the same methods. Alex and Al Barad are two of them. The former is the head of the D.G.S.E.'s (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure, the French equivalent of the CIA or the MI6) counter-terrorism unit while the latter reigns over a terrorist network, and both fight using the most ruthless of weapons: human beings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe First Day of the Rest of Your Life (2008)
A sprawling drama centered on five key days in a family's life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like this8th Wonderland (2008)
A website where people can virtually live in a true democracy becomes so popular that its leading members take questionable actions to improve the real world as well. This backfires and various governments brand them terrorists.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Burn 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 thisEscape from Raqqa (2019)
Paris, spring 2015. Faustine travels to Syria with her little son to join ISIS; but, once in Raqqa, she soon realizes the hell she is gotten herself into. Her husband Sylvain quickly understands that the French government is powerless to help him, so he plans with some friends a high-risk extraction operation to get his family back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOn the Run (2003)
Après quinze ans passés derrière les barreaux, Bruno, qui prône la révolution prolétarienne, s'évade. Ce dernier veut continuer la lutte, faire sortir ses camarades de prison, libérer les masses du joug capitaliste. Tous ses anciens alliés n'y croient plus, même Jeanne qui s'est mariée et a maintenant des enfants.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Enemies Within (2016)
During the 90s, Algerian terrorism reaches France. Two men. Two identities. One battle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
36th Precinct (2004)
In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, taken in part from real events of the 1980s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe New Protocol (2008)
A man investigating his son's death learns some horrific truths about the pharmaceutical industry.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPolisse (2011)
Paris, France. Fred and his colleagues, members of the BPM, the Police Child Protection Unit, dedicated to pursuing all sorts of offenses committed against the weakest, must endure the scrutiny of Melissa, a photographer commissioned to graphically document the daily routine of the team.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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 thisFrench Blood (2015)
Marco Lopez, a former Neo-Nazi and skinhead, tries to leave his violent, racist and hateful past behind him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both 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 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 thisDon't Worry, I'm Fine (2006)
A 19-year-old searches for her twin brother after he runs away from home, following a fight with their father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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 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 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
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 thisRebel (2022)
Kamal resolves to change his life for the better, and so leaves Belgium to help victims of the war in Syria. But when he arrives, he is forced to join a militia and is left stranded in Raqqa. Back home, his younger brother Nassim quickly becomes easy prey for radical recruiters, who promise to reunite him with his brother. Their mother, Leila, fights to protect the only thing she has left: her youngest son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNocturama (2016)
Some young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Made in France?
The closest matches to Made in France are Goliath (2022), A Perfect Man (2015) and The Outsider (2016). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Made in France?
People who watched Made in France most often go on to Goliath (2022), A Perfect Man (2015) and The Outsider (2016).
What is the highest-rated movie like Made in France?
Polisse (2011), rated 7.7/10 by 1,338 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Made in France?
Rebel (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Made in France?
Yes: Goliath (2022), A Perfect Man (2015) and The Outsider (2016).
How are movies similar to Made in France chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Made in France, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.