Movies like The Girl with a Bracelet (2020)
The best movies like The Girl with a Bracelet (2020) are Bruno Reidal: Confession of a Murderer (2022), Oh Mercy (2019) and SK1 (2015). If The Girl with a Bracelet hooked you with its drama and crime, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedAll Your Faces (2023)7.9/10 from 730 votes
- NewestCase 137 (2025)Released 2025
- In FrenchBruno Reidal: Confession of a Murderer (2022)Also in French
Bruno Reidal: Confession of a Murderer (2022)
Raulhac, Cantal, France, September 1, 1905. In the forest surrounding his hometown, the young seminarian Bruno Reidal murders a child and then surrenders himself to the authorities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOh Mercy (2019)
A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered on Christmas Eve. However, in a neighborhood rife with crime, everyone seems to be a suspect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSK1 (2015)
The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOnly the Animals (2019)
Following the disappearance of the glamorous and secretive Evelyne Ducat during a blizzard in the highlands of southern France, the lives of five people inextricably linked to Evelyne are brought together to devastating effect as the local police investigate the case.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCustody (2018)
Miriam and Antoine have recently separated. While she’s willing to permit their 17-year-old daughter Josephine to decide living arrangements for herself, Miriam is desperate to keep her youngest, 11-year-old Julien, away from his father. But the magistrate rules in favour of joint custody, and suddenly the boy is thrown directly into the middle of an escalating parental conflict, where it seems inevitable that sides must be chosen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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 thisLorna's Silence (2008)
Lorna is a young Albanian woman in a marriage of convenience with Claudy, a heroin addict. Just as Lorna is about to be granted Belgian citizenship, Claudy finds the strength to detox; this presents a problem not only for Lorna, but for the criminal who brokered the deal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTori and Lokita (2022)
In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the difficult conditions of their exile.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCourted (2015)
When a feared judge of the French court, Xavier Racine, encounters a French-Danish juror, Ditte Lorensen-Coteret, at a murder trial, their shared past is slowly uncovered.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Night of the 12th (2022)
Young and ambitious Captain Vivés has just been appointed group leader at the Grenoble Criminal Squad when Clara's murder case lands on his desk. Vivés and his team investigate Clara's complex life and relations, but what starts as a professional and methodical immersion into the victim's life soon turns into a haunting obsession.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
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 & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAll Your Faces (2023)
Since 2014, France's restorative justice programmes have offered a safe space for supervised dialogue between offenders and victims. Grégoire, Nawelle, and Sabine, victims of heists and violent robberies, agree to join one of these discussion groups alongside offenders Nassim, Issa, and Thomas, all convicted of violent robberies. Meanwhile Chloé, a victim of childhood sexual abuse, prepares for dialogue with her own agressor after learning he has moved back into town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisSaint Omer (2022)
A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are steadily dislodged as the life story of the accused is gradually revealed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCase 137 (2025)
When Internal Affairs officer Stéphanie investigates a young man severely injured during a chaotic Paris demonstration and finds no police misconduct, the routine case hits close to home upon her discovering the victim is from her native town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & 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 drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisConviction (2019)
Ever since she served on the jury during his trial, Nora has been convinced that Jacques Viguier is innocent, despite him being accused of murdering his wife. Following an appeal by the public prosecutor’s office, and fearing a miscarriage of justice, she convinces a leading lawyer to defend him during his second trial, on appeal. Together, they will put up a tenacious fight against injustice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Goldman Case (2023)
A second trial begins in November 1975 against French left-wing revolutionary Pierre Goldman, accused of several armed robberies and the death of two chemists.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBy the Grace of God (2019)
Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who abused him decades ago continues to work with children. He joins forces with others victims of the priest, to bring justice and “lift the burden of silence” about what they endured.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGuilty (2011)
Investigates the corrupt judicial system under which Alain Mar'caux and his wife Edith were arrested on accusations of pedophilia horrific acts they never committed- and the years he spent fighting to get out of prison, clear his name and keep his family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIn Her Name (2016)
In 1982, André Bamberski learns about the death of his 14 year-old daughter, Kalinka, while she was on vacation with her mother and stepfather in Germany. Convinced that Kalinka’s death was not an accident, Bamberski begins to investigate. A botched autopsy report raises his suspicions and leads him to accuse Kalinka’s stepfather, Dr Dieter Krombach, as the murderer. Unable to indict Krombach in Germany, Bamberski attempts to take the trial to France, where he will dedicate his life to Kalinka’s justice and the imprisonment of Krombach.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Color of Lies (1999)
In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the investigation immediately questions him. In this small provincial town where people all know each other and regularly meet at the Bar des Amis, René is increasingly unsettled by the other inhabitants' suspicions and by the inspector's investigation. Children stop coming to him for lessons. His wife, Viviane, a district nurse, protects him and supports him with her love. However, a self-centred media-star writer adds to René's confusion...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBorgo (2024)
Melissa is an experienced, exemplary prison guard. But a dangerous spiral is set into motion when she transfers to a Corsican jail, where she accepts help and protection from inmate Saveriu to get her bearings. Upon his release, he contacts Melissa expecting to collect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDheepan (2015)
Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlack Tide (2018)
When a teenager suddenly disappears without a trace, the case is assigned to an alcoholic police officer who maintains a complicated relationship with his own troubled teenage son, suspected of drug trafficking.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Midwife (2017)
Claire is a midwife and has devoted her life to others. At a moment when she is preoccupied by the imminent closure of the maternity clinic where she works, her life is further turned upside down when Béatrice, her father's former mistress, turns up on the scene. Béatrice is a capricious and selfish woman, Claire's exact opposite.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both 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 thisIn Safe Hands (2018)
Théo is given up for adoption by his biological mother on the very day he is born. After this anonymous birth, the mother has two months to change her mind… Or not. The child welfare services and adoption service spring into action… The former have to take care of the baby and support it during this limbo-like time, this period of uncertainty, while the latter must find a woman to become his adoptive mother. She is called Alice, and she has spent the last ten years fighting to have a child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMaigret (2022)
In Paris, a young girl is found dead in a Parisian square, wearing an evening dress. Commissioner Maigret will try to identify her and then understand what happened to the victim.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisFoxfire (2013)
Set in the 1950s, a a group of young girls in upstate New York form their own gang.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Girl with a Bracelet?
The closest matches to The Girl with a Bracelet are Bruno Reidal: Confession of a Murderer (2022), Oh Mercy (2019) and SK1 (2015). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Girl with a Bracelet?
People who watched The Girl with a Bracelet most often go on to Bruno Reidal: Confession of a Murderer (2022), Oh Mercy (2019) and SK1 (2015).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Girl with a Bracelet?
All Your Faces (2023), rated 7.9/10 by 730 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Girl with a Bracelet?
Case 137 (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like The Girl with a Bracelet?
Yes: Bruno Reidal: Confession of a Murderer (2022), Oh Mercy (2019) and SK1 (2015).
How are movies similar to The Girl with a Bracelet chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Girl with a Bracelet, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.