Top 20 movies like The Adversary

The Adversary

Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist Jean-Marc Faure pursues an imaginary career as a doctor of medicine in a plot more closely based on Romand's life and Carrère's book than was Laurent Cantet's 2001 film L'Emploi du Temps. The film was nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

L'Adversaire is of 2 hour(s) and 9 minute(s). It is Produced By:  Vértigo Films, Les Films Alain Sarde, Pauline's Angel, Vega Film, CNC, France 3 Cinéma. It was released on 2002-08-28. It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.

Genres: MysteryDramaCrime

1. Back Home (Revenir)

Back Home

It is the farm on which Thomas was born. It is his family. His brother, who won’t be coming back, his mother, who is about to do the same thing, and his father, with whom nothing has ever been possible. He finds there everything from which he had fled twelve years earlier. But today there is Alex, his six-year-old nephew, and Mona, his passionate mother.

It has an average vote of 5.564 on TMDB.

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2. Amish Grace

Amish Grace

When a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting in October of 2006, the world media attention rapidly turned from the tragic events to the extraordinary forgiveness demonstrated by the Amish community.

It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.

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3. Chocolat (Chocolat)

Chocolat

On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French woman recalls her childhood, her memories concentrating on her family's houseboy.

It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.

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4. The Prize of Peril (Le Prix du danger)

The Prize of Peril

In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television.

It has an average vote of 6.447 on TMDB.

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5. The Last Adventure (Les Aventuriers)

The Last Adventure

Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot's license. With seeming contrition, the jokesters tell Roland and Manu about a crashed plane lying on the ocean floor off the coast of Congo stuffed with riches. The adventurers set off to find the loot.

It has an average vote of 6.877 on TMDB.

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6. Behind the Curve

Behind the Curve

Meet the growing, worldwide community of theorists who defend the belief that the Earth is flat while living in a society who vehemently rejects it.

It has an average vote of 6.338 on TMDB.

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7. The Other Side of the Bed (El otro lado de la cama)

The Other Side of the Bed

When Paula leaves her mate Pedro, he misses her and looks for comfort with his best friends, Javier and Sonia. Paula is having an affair with Javier. Pedro tries to find who is the secret lover of Paula, and hires a private eye. Meanwhile, while comforting Pedro, Sonia has a one night stand with him and Javier thinks she is cheating on him with her lesbian friend Luzia.

It has an average vote of 6.051 on TMDB.

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8. Marche à l'ombre (Marche à l'ombre)

Marche à l'ombre

Two friends, one a musician the other constantly depressed wander around Greece and France till they get to Paris without a penny to their name. Here they spend nights in the underground, and squat in houses with the African immigrants. One day they both fall in love with Mathilde a blond dancer and follow her to New York.

It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.

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9. Louder Than Bombs

Louder Than Bombs

Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene's older son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in - and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.

It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.

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10. The Girl with a Bracelet (La Fille au bracelet)

The Girl with a Bracelet

Lise is accused of murdering her best friend. As the trial starts, her parents stand right by her side. But once her secret life is revealed in court, the truth becomes indistinguishable.

It has an average vote of 6.492 on TMDB.

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11. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline.

It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.

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12. Jealous (Jalouse)

Jealous

A divorced teacher suddenly becomes jealous of everyone, including her daughter, friends and neighbors.

It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.

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13. Blood Work

Blood Work

Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.

It has an average vote of 6.162 on TMDB.

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14. La Ceremonie (La Cérémonie)

La Ceremonie

Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.

It has an average vote of 7.297 on TMDB.

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15. The Valet (La Doublure)

The Valet

Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in the photo to claim to his wife that it's not him Elena is seeing but the other man, one François Pignon. Pignon is a modest little man who works as a parking valet. To make the story convincing, Elena has to move in with Pignon.

It has an average vote of 5.965 on TMDB.

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16. Saint Omer (Saint Omer)

Saint Omer

A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are steadily dislodged as the life story of the accused is gradually revealed.

It has an average vote of 6.334 on TMDB.

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17. The Under-Gifted (Les sous-doués)

The Under-Gifted

The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison!

It has an average vote of 6.501 on TMDB.

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18. Dead for a Dollar

Dead for a Dollar

In 1897, veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund is deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens — a sworn enemy he sent to prison years before. Max is on a mission to find and return Rachel Kidd, the wife of a wealthy businessman, who as the story is told to Max, has been abducted by Buffalo Soldier Elijah Jones. Max is ultimately faced with a showdown to save honor.

It has an average vote of 5.858 on TMDB.

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19. Three Days of the Condor

Three Days of the Condor

A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.

It has an average vote of 7.302 on TMDB.

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20. The Water Horse

The Water Horse

A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.

It has an average vote of 6.461 on TMDB.

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