If You Liked La Promesse, Watch These Next
Finished La Promesse (1996) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like La Promesse, most of them are drama.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Short Term 12(2013)
7.7DramaAlso drama
Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.
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2.A Better Life(2011)
7.2DramaAlso drama
An Indigenous Latino American gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.
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4.What Maisie Knew(2013)
7.1DramaAlso drama
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
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5.Frozen River(2008)
6.6DramaCrimeAlso drama
A financially strapped mother joins a Mohawk woman to smuggle illegal immigrants into the United States.
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6.I Never Sang for My Father(1970)
6.7DramaAlso drama
A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.
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7.Sleepwalking(2008)
6.1DramaAlso drama
When her boyfriend is arrested for marijuana possession, Joleen Reedy and her 11-year-old daughter, Tara, take refuge with Joleen's aimless brother, James. Joleen soon runs off with a truck driver, and James is unable to meet his responsibilities. After Child Protective Services takes possession of Tara, James…
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9.The Fabelmans(2022)
7.6DramaAlso drama
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
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12.Mommie Dearest(1981)
6.4DramaAlso drama
Renowned film star Joan Crawford's abuse towards Christina, her adopted daughter, intensifies as her professional and romantic relationships turn sour.
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14.Les Indésirables(2023)
6.2DramaAlso drama
A local activist and a budding young mayor clash over the best path forward for their impoverished suburb.
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15.Cat on a Hot Tin Roof(1958)
7.6DramaAlso drama
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his…
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16.Borderline(1980)
6.0ActionCrimeDramaAlso drama
Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of illegal aliens is responsible for Scooter's death, but the feds insist that drug dealers committed the crime.
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17.The Sound of Silence(2019)
5.8DramaAlso drama
A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.
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18.Kramer vs. Kramer(1979)
7.6DramaAlso drama
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.
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19.Her Way(2021)
6.6DramaAlso drama
Marie, an independent and militant woman, has never needed anyone's help, including when it comes to raising her son. When the latter is expelled from his certificate of professional competence training class, Marie cannot accept it. Dreaming of a brighter future for him, she decides to enrol him in one of the best…
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20.The Beasts(2022)
7.5ThrillerDramaAlso drama
Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic except for their opposition to a wind turbine project that creates a serious conflict with…
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