Movies like The Woman in the Fifth (2011)
The best movies like The Woman in the Fifth (2011) are In the House (2012), The Past (2013) and It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You (2007). If The Woman in the Fifth hooked you with its drama and mystery, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedA Separation (2011)7.9/10 from 2,066 votes
- NewestThe Wonder (2022)Released 2022
- In FrenchIn the House (2012)Also in French
In the House (2012)
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Past (2013)
After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce. During his brief stay, he cannot help noticing the strained relationship between Marie and her daughter Lucie. As he attempts to improve matters between mother and daughter Ahmad unwittingly lifts the lid on a long buried secret...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIt's Gradiva Who Is Calling You (2007)
An English historian travels to Morocco to work on a study of the painter Delacroix. He hears of a rare series of engravings and embarks on a search for them that takes him through the mysterious streets of the ancient medina. He becomes obsessed with the figure of a beautiful blond woman dressed in white that he sees there. but it appears that she may have died years before.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & drama
Personal Shopper (2016)
Maureen, mid-20s, is a personal shopper for a media celebrity. The job pays for her stay in Paris, a city she refuses to leave until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person contacts her via text message.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisCaché (2005)
As the host of a literary TV show, Georges begins receiving anonymously filmed videos of his family alongside cryptic, disturbing drawings, but as the tapes become increasingly intimate, they reveal a stalker who has known him for a very long time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisClouds of Sils Maria (2014)
A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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 & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Separation (2011)
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision – to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisSwimming Pool (2003)
A British crime novelist travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek solitude in order to work on her next book. However, the unexpected arrival of the publisher's daughter induces complications and a subsequent crime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisElle (2016)
When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLa Cérémonie (1995)
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe White Ribbon (2009)
An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Innocents (2016)
Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their pregnancy. Mathilde becomes their only hope.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisI Can't Sleep (1994)
Ninon is a spirited hotel-manager who teaches self-defense classes to her terrified eldery neighbors. Daiga, an aspiring Lithuanian actress newly arrived to Paris, becomes fascinated with the life of a mysteriously beautiful drag performer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
The Wonder (2022)
Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHumanité (1999)
In a quiet little French town, two detectives are tasked with investigating the brutal rape and murder of a preteen girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThree Colors: White (1994)
Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow Polish expatriate Mikołaj to smuggle him back to their homeland.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Confession (2017)
Under the German occupation, in a small French town, the arrival of a new priest arouses the interest of all women... Barny, a young communist and atheist woman, can not however be more indifferent. Driven by curiosity, the young skeptic went to the church in order to challenge this.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSibyl (2019)
Sibyl, a jaded psychotherapist, returns to her first passion: writing. But her newest patient Margot, a troubled up-and-coming actress, proves to be a source of inspiration that is far too tempting. Fascinated almost to the point of obsession, Sibyl becomes more and more involved in Margot’s tumultuous life, reviving volatile memories that bring her face to face with her past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisLila Says (2005)
Chimo develops a crush on the pretty, blond Lila, a girl who recently moved into his Arab ghetto with her aunt. When the leader of a rival gang also falls for Lila, the ensuing love triangle initiates a journey of sexual discovery -- and sets off a chain of devastating events.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmour (2012)
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisUnder the Sand (2001)
When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPhoenix (2014)
In the aftermath of WWII, German-Jewish cabaret singer Nelly has to undergo facial reconstructive surgery following her survival from Auschwitz. Without recognising Nelly, her former husband Johnny asks her to help him claim his wife’s inheritance. To see if he's betrayed her, she agrees, becoming her own doppelgänger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Two Faces of January (2014)
After he kills a detective, a con artist and his wife must trust a potentially dangerous stranger to help them get out of Greece.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisThe Piano Teacher (2001)
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBeyond the Hills (2012)
Alina returns to Romania from Germany, hoping to bring Voichita—the only person in the world she loves and was loved by—back with her. But Voichita has found God, and God is the hardest lover of all to best.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPlanetarium (2016)
In 1930s France, two sisters who are thought to be able to communicate with ghosts meet a visionary producer while performing in Paris.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisIsmael's Ghosts (2017)
Just as the disheveled and alcoholic filmmaker Ismaël embarks on a difficult new film project, his life is sent into a tailspin. His wife Carlotta, presumed dead for 20 years, come crashing back into his life creating chaos in his work and his current romantic relationship with the starry-eyed astronomer Sylvia.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (2015)
She’s the most beautiful, most short-sighted, most sentimental, most perplexing, most obstinate, most untrustworthy and most troubling of heroines. The lady in the car has never seen the sea. On the run from the police, she keeps telling herself that she’s not crazy… Only...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Woman in the Fifth?
The closest matches to The Woman in the Fifth are In the House (2012), The Past (2013) and It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You (2007). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Woman in the Fifth?
People who watched The Woman in the Fifth most often go on to In the House (2012), The Past (2013) and It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You (2007).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Woman in the Fifth?
A Separation (2011), rated 7.9/10 by 2,066 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Woman in the Fifth?
The Wonder (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like The Woman in the Fifth?
Yes: In the House (2012), The Past (2013) and Personal Shopper (2016).
How are movies similar to The Woman in the Fifth chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Woman in the Fifth, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.