Movies like Tori and Lokita (2022)
The best movies like Tori and Lokita (2022) are The Child (2005), The Son (2002) and The Kid with a Bike (2011). If Tori and Lokita hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedClose (2022)7.8/10 from 1,096 votes
- NewestYoung Mothers (2025)Released 2025
- In FrenchThe Child (2005)Also in French
The Child (2005)
A poor young Belgian mother wants her petty thief of a boyfriend to be gainfully employed to raise their newborn child, but he has other ideas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Son (2002)
A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Kid with a Bike (2011)
Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in the hands of an unqualified childcare provider.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTwo Days, One Night (2014)
Sandra is a young woman who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues they must give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her job — not an easy task in this economy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLa Promesse (1996)
Igor, aged 15, and his father Roger deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. Scams, lies and swindling rule their lives. When one of his father’s illegal workers gets injured on the job and asks Igor to promise to take care of his wife and baby, Igor finds himself at a crossroad. He wants to keep the promise, but the price would be to betray his father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisYoung Ahmed (2019)
A young Belgian is incited by his imam to view a teacher as an apostate and assassinate her; after he fails, he is sent to juvenile reform.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRosetta (1999)
Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Refusing all charity, she is desperate to maintain a dignified job.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisYoung 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: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOmen (2023)
After spending years in Belgium, a young Congolese man returns to his birthplace of Kinshasa to confront the intricacies of his family and culture.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Lorna'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 drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFish Tank (2009)
Fifteen-year-old Mia is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her. When she meets her party-girl mother’s charming new boyfriend Connor, she is amazed to find he returns her attention, and believes he might help her start to make sense of her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Girl with a Bracelet (2020)
Lise (16 years old) is accused of murdering her best friend. As the trial starts, her parents stand right by her side. But once her secret life is revealed in court, the truth becomes indistinguishable.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNobody's Hero (2022)
Clermont-Ferrand, central France. Médéric meets and falls in love with middle-aged sex worker Isadora, who is married. When the city center is the scene of a terrorist attack, Selim, a young, homeless guy, provokes a wave of paranoia by taking refuge in Médéric's building. Sympathizing with Selim, crazy about Isadora, Mederic's life suddenly turns into a mess.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisStaying Vertical (2016)
Screenwriter Leo is searching for the wolf in the south of France. During a scouting excursion he is seduced by Marie, a free-spirited and dynamic shepherdess. Nine months later she gives birth to their child. Suffering from post-natal depression and with no faith in Leo, who comes and goes without warning, Marie abandons both of them. Leo finds himself alone, with a baby to care for.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThis Is Our Land (2017)
Pauline, a devoted and generous home help nurse, raises her two children alone, while also looking after her father, a former steelworker. Taking advantage of her popularity, the directors of an extremist political party suggest she become their candidate at the mayoral elections.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisLove According to Dalva (2023)
One evening, Dalva is suddenly taken away from her father’s house. Dumbfounded and outraged at first, she later meets Jayden, a social worker, and Samia, a teen with a temper. A new life seems to start for Dalva, that of a girl her age.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMustang (2015)
In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisGoing Away (2013)
Two unlikely friends — a supply teacher and a lonely young boy suspended between two estranged parents — embark on a weekend motorcycle voyage full of surprises and unforeseen consequences in this surprisingly tough, unsentimental drama.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisRocks (2020)
15-year-old Rocks fears that she and her little brother Emmanuel will be taken into care and forced apart if anyone finds out that their mother has left them. Against all odds, and with the help of her loyal friends, she evades the authorities and navigates the most defining days of her young life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGirlhood (2014)
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her dress code, and quits school to be accepted in the gang, hoping that this will be a way to freedom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisM (2017)
Lila and Mo meet at a bus stop. Lila has a paralyzing speech impediment. Mo is chatty and exuberant. Lila is preparing for her exams. Mo illegally races cars for a living. Opposites attract, and they fall in love. But Mo carries a secret burden…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Class (2008)
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisClose (2022)
Two 13-year-old boys spend an idyllic summer together, but their connection is put to the test when they become the subject of speculation at school.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisLast Summer (2023)
One summer, a French teenager who has been living with his mother in the city moves in with his estranged father’s family in the countryside, where he clashes with his stepmother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInsecure (2014)
Chérif, struggling to pass the entrance exam for nursing school, takes on a side job as a security guard. On duty there, he faces off with a group of hostile teenagers who constantly harass him, and gradually ends up an accomplice to a robbery gone wrong. Caught in between two worlds, Chérif will have to find his own way out…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisLola and the Sea (2019)
Just when Lola, 18 years old and transgender, learns that she can finally have surgery, her mother, who is her only financial support, passes away. Abiding by her mother’s last wishes, Lola and her father, who are permanently in conflict and have not seen each other for two years, undertake a journey all the way to the Belgian coast. They realize the outcome of the journey may not be the one they were both expecting...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Measure of a Man (2015)
At the age of 51 and after 20 months on unemployment, Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. How much is he willing to accept to keep his job?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBetween Two Worlds (2022)
Marianne Winckler relocates to the port city of Caen in order to pass herself off as a member of a large community of itinerant workers desperate to make ends meet. She gains employment as a cleaner on a ferry travelling between Ouistreham and Portsmouth, recording the drudgery of the work she and her colleagues are required to do.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnd Their Children After Them (2024)
In eastern France, two teenage cousins have the summer of their lives when they paddle a purloined canoe to the far shore of a lake.
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Tori and Lokita?
The closest matches to Tori and Lokita are The Child (2005), The Son (2002) and The Kid with a Bike (2011). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Tori and Lokita?
People who watched Tori and Lokita most often go on to The Child (2005), The Son (2002) and The Kid with a Bike (2011).
What is the highest-rated movie like Tori and Lokita?
Close (2022), rated 7.8/10 by 1,096 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Tori and Lokita?
Young Mothers (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Tori and Lokita?
Yes: The Child (2005), The Son (2002) and The Kid with a Bike (2011).
How are movies similar to Tori and Lokita chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Tori and Lokita, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.