Movies like Yannick (2023)
The best movies like Yannick (2023) are The Second Act (2024), Wrong Cops (2013) and Keep an Eye Out (2018). If Yannick hooked you with its comedy and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)8.0/10 from 16,726 votes
- NewestVertiginous (2026)Released 2026
- In FrenchThe Second Act (2024)Also in French
The Second Act (2024)
Florence wants to introduce David, the man she’s madly in love with, to her father Guillaume. But David isn’t attracted to Florence and wants to throw her into the arms of his friend Willy. The four characters meet in a restaurant in the middle of nowhere.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWrong Cops (2013)
A group of bad cops look to dispose of a body that one of them accidentally shot.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKeep an Eye Out (2018)
Louis just found the corpse of a man in front of his apartment building. Taken in for custody by Captain Buron, he finds himself on the wrong end of a surreal interrogation. But how can you prove you are innocent when the cops are crazy?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSmoking Causes Coughing (2022)
After a devastating battle against a diabolical turtle, a team of five avengers — known as the "Tobacco Force" — is sent on a mandatory retreat to strengthen their decaying group cohesion, where they share scary stories the film depicts. Their storytelling sojourn goes wonderfully well until Lézardin, Emperor of Evil, decides to annihilate planet Earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWrong (2012)
Dolph Springer wakes up one morning to realize he has lost the love of his life, his dog, Paul. During his quest to get Paul (and his life) back, Dolph radically changes the lives of others -- risking his sanity all the while.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisReality (2015)
A wanna-be director is given 48 hours by a producer to find the best groan of pain, worthy of an Oscar, as the only condition to back his film.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTo Each His Own Cinema (2007)
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDaaaaaalí! (2024)
A young French journalist repeatedly meets iconic surrealist artist Salvador Dalí for a documentary project that never came to be.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMandibles (2021)
When two simple-minded best friends find a giant fly trapped in the trunk of a stolen car, they decide to train it in hopes of striking it rich.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIncredible But True (2022)
Alain and Marie moved to the suburb house of their dreams. But the real estate agent warned them: what is in the basement may well change their lives forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNonfilm (2002)
A young actor suddenly wakes up in the middle of the shooting of a movie he doesn't understand.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Book of Solutions (2023)
Marc, a bipolar and paranoid filmmaker, cannot tolerate seeing his current project picked apart by his producers. The clips he’s been able to sneak a look at lead him to fear the worst. With his editor as an accomplice, he manages to spirit away the rushes to his aunt’s place in the Cévennes, to finish the film as he envisions it. Instead, its completion is constantly postponed, as he creates endless diversions and impasses, which alternate between the comic and the downright disturbing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSteak (2007)
George is the scapegoat of his classmates. One day he cracks and shoots them. His best and only friend Blaise is accused in his place and sentenced to 7 years in a psychiatric hospital. At the day of his release, Blaise realizes he only has one family: his best friend George. But he does not want to hear about his childhood friend, as he tries to integrate with the “Chivers” a gang whose members wear red jackets and boots, drink milk, drive sport trucks and play an incomprehensible and violent game that mixes cricket and mental arithmetic.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like this99 Francs (2007)
Paris, France, 2001. Octave Parango, a young advertiser working at the Ross & Witchcraft advertising agency, lives a suicidal existence, ruled by cynicism, irresponsibility and debauchery. The obstacles he will encounter in developing a campaign for a new yogurt brand will force him to face the meaning of his work and the way he manages his relationship with those who orbit around his egotistic lifestyle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDeerskin (2019)
A man's obsession with owning the designer deerskin jacket of his dreams leads him to turn his back on his humdrum life in the suburbs, blow his life savings, and even turn him to crime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq (2014)
In September 2011 writer Michel Houellebecq briefly disappeared off the face of the earth. Wild rumours began circulating on the Internet that he’d been abducted by Al-Qaeda or aliens from outer space. Some Twitter users even expressed relief that the controversial author was suddenly no longer around. This film now reveals what really happened: Three tough guys variously with impressive hairstyles and bodybuilder physiques carried off the star intellectual, taking him out of the daily stress of dodging autograph hunters and having his flat renovated and bringing him to a beautiful rural underdog idyll, full of dog grooming, bodybuilding demonstrations, junk cars and Polish sausages. But who was to pay the ransom?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Disaster Artist (2017)
An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Palace (2023)
A comedy set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them intersect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Specials (2019)
For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have lived in a different world—the world of autistic children and teens. In charge of two separate nonprofit organizations (The Hatch & The Shelter), they train young people from underprivileged areas to be caregivers for extreme cases that have been refused by all other institutions. It’s an exceptional partnership, outside of traditional settings, for some quite extraordinary characters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIrma Vep (1996)
A has-been French filmmaker wants a Hong Kong actress to be the heroine in a rendering of Les Vampires.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFeathers (2021)
A passive mother who dedicates her life to her husband and children. Stuck in daily, repetitive, mundane chores, she has made herself as little as she possibly could. When a magic trick goes wrong at her 4-year-old son's birthday party, an avalanche of coincidental absurdities befalls the family. The magician turns her husband, the authoritarian father, into a chicken. The mother is now forced to come to the fore and take care of the family while moving heaven and earth to bring her husband back. As she tries to survive, she goes through a rough and absurd transformation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisZaï Zaï Zaï Zaï (2022)
Imagine a world where the worst behaviour you could ever have is to forget your store's loyalty card in your other trousers...that's what happens to Adrien. This serious misconduct forces him to go into hiding, as both police and media hunt him down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisCycling with Molière (2013)
Serge Tanneur is at the pinnacle of his acting career when he decides to turn his back on show business and become a hermit living off of France’s Atlantic coast. Three years later, Gauthier Valence, a beloved TV actor, shows up on the island to offer Serge a role in his directorial debut – a rendition of Molière’s classic play, “The Misanthrope”. Serge refuses at first, but then suggests that they rehearse the first scene and after five days he’ll decide if he wants to dothe play or not. What ensues is a battle of brawn and wits and peculiar encounters with a hotel maid who longs to be a pornstar and an Italian divorcée.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVertiginous (2026)
Jacques goes to his friend Bruno's house to tell him some big news: the entire human race is living in a simulation...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Workshop (2017)
Antoine has agreed to follow a writing workshop where some young people in insertion must write a noir novel with the help of Olivia, a recognized novelist. The work of writing will bring to life the working-class past of the city. Its shipyard is closed for 25 years, a nostalgia that does not interest Antoine, influenced by the anxiety of the present world
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDon't Think Twice (2016)
An improv group deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this24 Days (2014)
When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGhostlight (2024)
When melancholic construction worker Dan finds himself drifting from his wife and daughter, he discovers community and purpose in a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet. As the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life, he and his family are forced to confront a personal loss.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Yannick?
The closest matches to Yannick are The Second Act (2024), Wrong Cops (2013) and Keep an Eye Out (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Yannick?
People who watched Yannick most often go on to The Second Act (2024), Wrong Cops (2013) and Keep an Eye Out (2018).
What is the highest-rated movie like Yannick?
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), rated 8.0/10 by 16,726 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Yannick?
Vertiginous (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Yannick?
Yes: The Second Act (2024), Keep an Eye Out (2018) and Smoking Causes Coughing (2022).
How are movies similar to Yannick chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Yannick, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.