20 best movies like Elle (2016)

List of the best movies like Elle (2016): Standing Tall, Based on a True Story, Mindscape, Loveless, Brimstone, Birth, Our Kind of Traitor, The Passion of Darkly Noon, Nocturama, The Unknown Girl.

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Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama
CountryFrance
Duration01:39

The film tells the story of Malony and his education as he grows from a six-year-old into an 18-year-old. A minors’ judge and a caseworker work tirelessly to try to save the young offender.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryFrance, Poland, Belgium
Duration02:08

Delphine is the author of an autobiographical novel that has become a bestseller. Exhausted by the promotional tour, just when she feels out of place, paralyzed by the idea of having to start writing again, she meets Elle, a young, attractive, intelligent, intuitive woman who seems to understand her better than anyone.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountrySpain, USA
Duration01:39

A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama
CountryRussia, France, Belgium, Germany
Duration02:08

Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears...

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, western, detective
CountryNetherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, United Kingdom, USA
Duration01:45

In the menacing inferno of the old American West, Liz is a genuine survivor who is hunted by a vengeful preacher for a crime she didn’t commit.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, USA
Duration01:40

It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
Duration02:16

A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday on Antigua. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on a tortuous journey to the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's intelligence establishment, to Paris and the Alps.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Belgium
Duration02:39

Desire torments a former cultist taking refuge at the home of a scantily clad woman whose husband is away.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryFrance, Germany, Belgium
Duration01:30

In Paris, a motley group of young people engineer a deadly plan to spread shock and awe in the city. Each plays their own role. Then they all hide in a department store, a symbol of the consumerist society they are attacking.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryBelgium, France
Duration02:03

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.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

A once-abused woman devotes herself to ridding victims of their domestic abusers while hunting down the one she must kill to be truly free.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryFrance
Duration01:42

In November 2009, French security van driver Toni Musulin makes off with nearly 12 million euros, then turns himself over to the authorities a week later.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryCanada, France
Duration01:46

When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Hong Kong
Duration02:28

A grieving mother transforms herself into a vigilante following the murders of her husband and daughter, eluding the authorities to deliver her own personal brand of justice.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryFrance, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan
Duration01:39

A man, Milan (played by Johnny Hallyday) steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier (Jean Rochefort). The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
Duration02:31

A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:25

Vincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat shooting who stubbornly refuses to join a field brigade, a choice which their colleagues do not understand. When he meets Milo Cardena, a mysterious and skilled cop, his life changes in such way that he cannot ignore his true nature anymore.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:50

After witnessing a miracle, a young Latina woman experiences strange things as a police detective searches for the truth behind his partner's death.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:32

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryFrance, Germany

A woman has disappeared. The day after a snowstorm, her car is found on a road leading to a plateau with with nothing but a few scattered farms. The gendarmes have nothing to go on, while five individuals well know they have something to do with the woman's disappearance. They all keep their secrets to themselves, but no one suspects that the whole story began far from these windswept wintry peaks: on another continent, in the burning sun, where poverty doesn't stop desire from taking the law into its own hands.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryCanada, USA
Duration01:14

A former mob enforcer who is released from prison after serving 22 years for a crime he didn't commit sets out on a path for revenge against the people who wronged him.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:52

After a 13-year imprisonment for the kidnap and murder of a 6 year old boy, beautiful Lee Guem-ja starts seeking revenge on the man that was really responsible for the boy's death. With the help of fellow inmates and reunited with her daughter, she gets closer and closer to her goal. But will her actions lead to the relief she seeks?

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, France, USA, Japan
Duration02:01

Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain the money while avoiding detection opens a Pandora's box when the fear of getting caught triggers panicked behavior and leads to virulent consequences

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryRomania, United Kingdom

In the beautiful, otherworldly Carpathian Mountains a woman is traveling with a small boy in a horse and cart, looking to punish those who once abused her. For years, Katalin has been keeping a terrible secret. Hitchhiking with two men, she was brutally raped in the woods. Although she has kept silent about what happened, she has not forgotten, and her son Órban serves as a living reminder.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
CountryNew Zealand, Germany
Duration01:48

Wealthy and precocious teenager Juliet transfers from England to New Zealand with her family, and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. When their parents begin to suspect that their increasingly intense and obsessive bond is becoming unhealthy, the girls hatch a dark plan for those who threaten to keep them apart.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, detective
CountryIceland, Poland, Denmark, Germany, France
Duration01:53

When Baldwin and Inga's next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA

A teen girl disappears after trying to meet men online in order to escape her small town. Apparently, only her best friend worries enough to investigate the mystery.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:57

Once a known counterculture figure, June E. Leigh now lives in self-imposed exile in her South Bronx apartment during the incendiary '77 Summer of Sam. When an unseen tormentor begins exploiting June's weaknesses, her insular universe begins to unravel.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:48

    A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, crime, biography
    CountryFrance, Germany
    Duration01:40

    In 1982, André Bamberski learns about the death of his 14 year-old daughter, Kalinka, while she was on vacation with her mother and stepfather in Germany. Convinced that Kalinka’s death was not an accident, Bamberski begins to investigate. A botched autopsy report raises his suspicions and leads him to accuse Kalinka’s stepfather, Dr Dieter Krombach, as the murderer. Unable to indict Krombach in Germany, Bamberski attempts to take the trial to France, where he will dedicate his life to Kalinka’s justice and the imprisonment of Krombach.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryDenmark, France, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Tunisia
    Duration02:43

    Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Australia, China
    Duration02:34

    A husband and wife try to reinvigorate their relationship but their lives are threatened by a "friend" from the husband's past who holds a horrifying secret about him, sending their world into a tailspin.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:29

    After a painful breakup, Leah seems to meet the perfect guy. But she soon discovers his violent side that disrupts her life.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryFrance, United Kingdom
    Duration01:42

    In the middle of this amusing thriller is a relationship between two different types of females, one is a well know British author and the other is a sex-crazed French teen. The two get into some relationship trouble while living together in this film of psychological imagery and an erotic exploration of the female body.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Spain, South Korea
    Duration02:32

    A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime, military
    CountryFrance, Belgium, Germany, USA, Malta, Croatia, Netherlands
    Duration02:19

    In the midst of the Balkan wars, a squad of Navy SEALs attempts to unravel a long-forgotten mystery after discovering an enormous treasure trove hidden at the bottom of a lake in Serbia.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:42

    Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA, Belgium, Luxembourg, China, Germany
    Duration02:25

    Michael Mason is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals a bag that contains more than just a wallet. Sean Briar, the field agent on the case, soon realises that Michael is just a pawn in a much bigger game and is also his best asset to uncover a large-scale conspiracy.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryFrance, Belgium

    Brussels, early '60s. Alice and Céline live in twin bourgeois houses. They are best friends as are their children, Theo and Maxime, who have grown up like brothers. Both families spend all their time together. This perfect harmony is broken when an accident creates strong divisions between the two families.

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