15 Movies Like The Law

Loved The Law? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

Brotherhood of the Wolf
#1

Brotherhood of the Wolf

In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Law.

De Gaulle: Résistance
#2

De Gaulle: Résistance

June, 1940. France collapses and signs the armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man refuses to give up. Alone against the odds, this unknown general flees to London to save what remains of freedom.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Law.

The Mad Women's Ball
#3

The Mad Women's Ball

A woman who is unfairly institutionalized at a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel 'Le bal des folles' by Victoria Mas.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Law.

The Children of the Resistance
#4

The Children of the Resistance

During the German occupation of World War II, François, Eusèbe, and Lisa, three courageous children, embark on a secret adventure: resisting the Nazis in the heart of France. Through sabotage, hidden messages, and perilous escapes, they carry out clandestine actions right under the enemy's nose. Daring and friendship are their only weapons in the fight against injustice.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Law.

The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
#5

The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan

D'Artagnan, a spirited young Gascon, is left for dead after trying to save a noblewoman from being kidnapped. Once in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers, unaware that his quest will lead him to the very heart of a war where the future of France is at stake. Aided by King's Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, he faces the machinations of villainous Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter, while falling in love with Constance, the Queen's confidante.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Law.

Benedetta
#6

Benedetta

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Law.

Curiosa
#7

Curiosa

A passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th century authors Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Law.

Miraculous World: New York, United HeroeZ
#8

Miraculous World: New York, United HeroeZ

Marinette's class is headed to New York, the city of superheroes, for French-American Friendship Week. But the arrival of Hawk Moth will complicate everything.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Law.

Richard Jewell
#9

Richard Jewell

Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Law.

Le Canal des secrets
#10

Le Canal des secrets

Marseillette in the Aude: stuck in a lock, a woman's corpse. Following the first findings against her husband, who's a judge, a Parisian police commissioner is mandated to investigate. She will have to work with a gendarme from the region.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Law.

Night and Fog
#11

Night and Fog

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Law.

Nouvelle Vague
#12

Nouvelle Vague

After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges de Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, and creates a treatment with fellow New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut about a gangster couple. The result? Breathless, one of the first features of the Nouvelle Vague era of French cinema.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Law.

A Trip to the Moon
#13

A Trip to the Moon

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Law.

Sade
#14

Sade

A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Law.

Consent
#15

Consent

In 2013, Vanessa Springora recounts how she found herself under the influence of a famous writer. In 1986, she was 13; him, almost 50. The victim of a triple predation: sexual, literary, and psychic, there's more beyond her individual story. She questions the excesses of an era, and the complacency of an environment blinded by talent and celebrity.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Law.