If You Liked Elles, Watch These Next

Finished Elles (2011) and want more of the same? These 19 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Elles, most of them are drama.

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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026

1.Trafficked(2017)
6.6DramaAlso drama
In this story inspired by real characters, three girls from America, Nigeria and India are trafficked through an elaborate global network and enslaved in a Texas brothel, and must together attempt a daring escape to reclaim their freedom.
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2.Luckiest Girl Alive(2022)
6.5DramaThrillerMysteryAlso drama
A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.
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3.Higher Ground(2011)
5.9DramaThrillerAlso drama
Vera Farmiga's directorial debut, HIGHER GROUND, depicts the landscape of a tight-knit spiritual community thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith. Inspired by screenwriter Carolyn S. Briggs' memoir This Dark World, the film tells the story of a thoughtful woman's struggles with belief,…
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4.Mammal(2016)
6.3DramaAlso drama
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.
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5.A Mighty Heart(2007)
6.4DramaThrillerHistoryAlso drama
Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.
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6.The Search(2014)
6.8DramaAlso drama
A woman who works for a non-governmental organization (NGO) forms a special relationship with a young boy in war-torn Chechnya.
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7.Vivre Sa Vie(1962)
7.7DramaAlso drama
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
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8.The Chinese Botanist's Daughters(2006)
6.4DramaAlso drama
At the house of a famous Chinese botanist teacher his daughter and a female intern fall in love with each other - a forbidden love that must be kept secret.
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9.Hungry Hearts(2015)
6.5DramaAlso drama
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
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10.The Third Lover(1962)
6.4DramaThrillerAlso drama
On a work assignment in Germany, failed journalist Albin crosses paths with Andreas, a successful writer, and his wife Hélène, who quickly becomes the apple of Albin’s eye. While Andreas is off on a business trip, Albin tries to seduce Hélèn and, eventually, take over Andreas’ life.
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11.Farming(2018)
6.2DramaAlso drama
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.
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12.Parisienne(2016)
5.9DramaAlso drama
18-year-old Lina arrives in Paris for her studies. She comes to look for what she has never found in Lebanon, her country of origin: a certain form of freedom. The survival instinct as the only baggage, she sails from one Paris to another to the rhythm of her romantic encounters.
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13.Crimes of Passion(1984)
6.3CrimeDramaThrillerAlso drama
Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a murderous sex toy.
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14.Pimp(2018)
6.2DramaAlso drama
An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and girlfriend Nikki.
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15.I Walk the Line(1970)
5.9DramaAlso drama
Henry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his marriage, Henry falls in love with teenage seductress Alma, who is the daughter of local criminal and moonshiner Carl McCain. Henry's moral character comes further into…
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16.Shame(2011)
6.9DramaAlso drama
Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of…
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17.The Saint of Fort Washington(1993)
6.6DramaAlso drama
Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he finds himself in even more dire straits, when he is threatened by Little Leroy, a thug who is one of the tough denizens of the Fort Washington Shelter for Men. He reaches out to Jerry, a…
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18.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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19.The Brothers Karamazov(1958)
6.5DramaHistoryAlso drama
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a…
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