Movies like Quelques Secondes
If Quelques Secondes's mix of rape, strong woman and suicide attempt stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Quelques Secondes's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Innocents
2016 · Directed by Anne Fontaine · 115 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: rape · Also a French drama · From the same decade (2010s)
Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to…
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Women Talking
2022 · Directed by Sarah Polley · 104 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: rape, pregnancy from rape
A group of women in an isolated religious colony struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.
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Short Term 12
2013 · Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton · 96 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: suicide attempt · From the same decade (2010s)
Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.
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The Ties That Bind Us
2025 · Directed by Carine Tardieu · 106 min7.2
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
A young single father trying to find the strength to love. A feminist librarian, single by conviction, who’s decided that she won’t be a mother. A six-year-old child trying to find a place in a new family structure.
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Petite Maman
2021 · Directed by Céline Sciamma · 72 min7.1
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
After the death of her beloved grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly meets a strangely familiar girl her own age in the woods. Instantly forming a connection with this mysterious new friend, Nelly embarks on a fantastical…
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Speak
2004 · Directed by Jessica Sharzer · 93 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: rape
Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles,…
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Brain on Fire
2017 · Directed by Gerard Barrett · 88 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: strong woman · From the same decade (2010s)
Susannah Cahalan, an up-and-coming journalist at the New York Post becomes plagued by voices in her head and seizures, causing a rapid descent into insanity.
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Girlhood
2014 · Directed by Céline Sciamma · 112 min6.5
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama · From the same decade (2010s)
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls.