15 Movies Like Witness in the City
Loved Witness in the City? 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.
Irreversible
A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Witness in the City.
A Family of Bastards
After the death of his father, Mohamed discovers the living of a step-brother and a step-sister. Together, they must manage the suspicious bar they inherited of linked to criminality, drug traffic and prostitution.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Witness in the City.
Léon: The Professional
Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda's thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon's footsteps.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Witness in the City.
Baise-moi
Nadine and Manu are two mad women, as tidy as can be, almost perfectionists. They have several things in common: extreme sex, drugs, beer and the trigger. They find the solution to their problems with guns and beware to those who dare to get in their way!
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Witness in the City.
Visions
An experienced airline pilot, Estelle leads a perfect life between long-haul flights with her loving, protective husband Guillaume. One day, by chance, in an airport corridor, she crosses paths with Ana, a photographer with whom she had a passionate affair twenty years earlier. Little does Estelle know that this reunion will send her into a nightmarish spiral, turning her life upside down and irrational.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Witness in the City.
Survive
A couple celebrates their son’s birthday in the middle of the ocean on their boat. A violent storm hits and it brings up hungry creatures from the depths and they fight for their survival.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Witness in the City.
Anatomy of a Fall
A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Witness in the City.
Agent Zero
When police officer Ilias is shot and left in a coma, Alma must reconnect with her former identity as Badh, a ruthless intelligence operative and skilled assassin. She brutally eliminates members of the Khoury family one by one, unleashing the fury of their leader Mansour, only to discover that Mansour is working with Joana, her former secret service unit officer.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Witness in the City.
Revenge
Jen's romantic getaway with her wealthy married boyfriend is disrupted when his friends arrive for an impromptu hunting trip. Tension mounts at the house until the situation culminates in an unexpected way.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Witness in the City.
Martyrs
A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Witness in the City.
Dog 51
In the near future, Paris is divided into three zones that separate social classes, and no one can escape ALMA, a predictive AI that has revolutionized law enforcement. When ALMA’s creator is assassinated, Salia, a top agent, and Zem, a jaded cop, are forced to work together to solve a murder that may expose the dark secrets of the system they serve.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Witness in the City.
Pets on a Train
When a train unexpectedly starts up, taking only pets with it, the animals discover that Hans, a badger with a grudge is behind it all. While the crash seems inevitable, the animals can count on Falcon, a roguish Raccoon who will do anything to save them.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Witness in the City.
It Was Just an Accident
An unassuming mechanic is reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Witness in the City.
Emilia Pérez
Rita, an underrated lawyer working for a large law firm more interested in getting criminals out of jail than bringing them to justice, is hired by the leader of a criminal organization.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Witness in the City.
Three Days and a Life
Christmas 1999, in a peaceful little village in the Ardennes. The life of a young boy named Antoine will soon be devastated by three tragic events : the death of a dog, the vanishing of a child, and a big ravaging storm.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Witness in the City.