If you loved Les Misérables, try Holy Spider
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Holy Spider has roughly 3.2× fewer votes than Les Misérables — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theyboth carry the foreign gem, paranoid, raw mood tags, and they sit in Crime / Drama / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to Les Misérables, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Holy Spider is
Mashhad streets at dusk a motorcycle revs A journalist investigates serial killings A dark thriller emerges from 2020s Iranian cinema

