If You Liked Manon of the Spring, Watch These Next
Finished Manon of the Spring (1986) 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 Manon of the Spring, most of them are drama.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The Last Woman(1976)
6.2DramaAlso drama
Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son.
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2.Élisa(1995)
6.4DramaAlso drama
Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames for her mother's death.
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3.An Officer and a Spy(2019)
7.1HistoryDramaThrillerAlso drama
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.
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4.Three Colors: Blue(1993)
7.6DramaAlso drama
The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.
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5.Lost Bullet 2(2022)
6.5ActionCrimeThrillerAlso drama
Having cleared his name, genius mechanic Lino has only one goal in mind: getting revenge on the corrupt cops who killed his brother and his mentor.
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6.Night of the Kings(2021)
6.6DramaAlso drama
A young man is sent to "La Maca," a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning what fate awaits him, he begins to narrate the mystical life…
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7.The Thing with Feathers(2025)
6.4DramaAlso drama
Following the death of his wife, a young father's hold on reality crumbles, and a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.
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8.You Will Be My Son(2011)
6.3DramaAlso drama
Paul de Marseul, a prestigious wine-maker and owner of a renowned chateau and vineyard in Saint-Emilion, is disheartened by the notion of his son Martin taking over the family business. Martin does not seem to have inherited the qualities that Paul esteems in a wine-maker: persistence, creative insight and technical…
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9.By the Grace of God(2019)
7.2DramaAlso drama
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.
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10.Sentinelle(2021)
5.8ThrillerActionDramaAlso drama
Transferred home after a traumatizing combat mission, a highly trained French soldier uses her lethal skills to hunt down the man who hurt her sister.
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11.Only the Animals(2019)
6.7DramaCrimeAlso drama
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.
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12.In His Shadow(2023)
6.3CrimeDramaAlso drama
After the death of their father, two half-brothers find themselves on opposite sides of an escalating conflict with tragic consequences.
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13.A Place for Her(2026)
8.2DramaAlso drama
At the Maison des Femmes, women victims of violence are cared for. Elsewhere, they are threatened, brutalized, raped, mutilated, their suffering ignored. Here, they are listened to, supported, helped and believed. Diane, Manon, Inès, Awa and the others will give them a helping hand until they can stand up again. As a…
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14.No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers(1990)
6.7ActionCrimeDramaAlso drama
Two feuding brothers of differing political views, one a policeman, the other a martial artist, join forces to avenge the death of their father, a retired agent who was brutally murdered by the mafia.
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15.All to Play For(2023)
6.4DramaAlso drama
Sylvie lives with her two children whom she’s raising on her own. One evening, there’s an accident, and her youngest son is removed from her care. Sylvie must subsequently fight to get her son back and to keep herself afloat.
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16.Razzia(1955)
6.7CrimeDramaAlso drama
Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy preceding him, he sets himself to the task of knowing why the French operations were not so profitable - and soon he is master of all…
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18.The Secrets We Keep(2020)
6.0ThrillerHistoryDramaAlso drama
In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.
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20.The Safety of Objects(2002)
6.5DramaAlso drama
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new…
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