Movies like French Fried Vacation (1978)
The best movies like French Fried Vacation (1978) are French Fried Vacation 2 (1979), The Dinner Game (1998) and The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972). If French Fried Vacation hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Dinner Game (1998)7.8/10 from 2,133 votes
- NewestOldies But Goodies (2024)Released 2024
- In FrenchFrench Fried Vacation 2 (1979)Also in French
- Same seriesFrench Fried Vacation 2 (1979)French Fried Vacation
French Fried Vacation 2 (1979)
Summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Claude, and Christiane.
Why it matches: Same series: French Fried Vacation · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Dinner Game (1998)
For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is “Idiots' Day”. The idea is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who brings the most spectacular idiot wins the prize. Tonight, Brochant is ecstatic. He has found a gem. The ultimate idiot, “A world champion idiot!”. What Brochant doesn’t know is that Pignon is a real jinx, a past master in the art of bringing on catastrophes...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972)
A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe ComDads (1983)
Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Under-Gifted (1980)
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!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLa Classe américaine (1993)
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSerial (Bad) Weddings (2014)
A catholic French couple sees their life upside down when their four daughters get married to men of different religion and origins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Closet (2001)
A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Fugitives (1986)
Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not part of the action.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Brice Man (2005)
A wannabe surfer parties on the French Riviera while awaiting the perfect wave.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Magic Tuche (2018)
After a groundbreaking presidential election, Jeff Tuche becomes the new President of France and moves in the Elysee with his family to govern the country.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Big Store (1973)
Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket by attempting several coups. A film about the big store taking over the business of smaller stores.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDikkenek (2006)
Jean-Claude is a loud-mouthed, know-it-all and full time boor who is best friends with Stef, a self-styled lady killer who would do better with the fairer sex if he could work up the ambition to wake up in the morning. Stef has decided that he may need some help in finding the woman of his dreams, and embracing loyalty rather than logic he turns to Jean-Claude for advice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOscar (1967)
This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes. In the same morning he learns that his daughter is pregnant, an employee stole a large amount of money from his company, his maid is about to resign in order to marry a wealthy neighbor and his body builder is interested in marrying his daughter. The seemingly complicated story-line is full of comedy or errors and some of the most hilarious mime scenes of the French cinema.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Valet (2006)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGramps Is in the Resistance (1983)
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Three Brothers (1995)
Three half-brothers are reunited at their mother's funeral. After being told of their inheritance they quickly spend the money, only to find out that they will not receive it after all. The men grow closer while deciding how to proceed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisC'est la vie! (2017)
Max is a battle-weary veteran of the wedding-planning racket. His latest — and last — gig is a hell of a fête, involving stuffy period costumes for the caterers, a vain, hyper- sensitive singer who thinks he's a Gallic James Brown, and a morose, micromanaging groom determined to make Max's night as miserable as possible. But what makes the affair too bitter to endure is that Max's colleague and ostensible girlfriend, Joisette, seems to have written him off, coolly going about her professional duties while openly flirting with a much younger server. It's going to be a very long night… especially once the groom's aerial serenade gets underway.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVive la France (2013)
Muzafar and Feruz are two easy going shepherds from Taboulistan, a tiny country in Asia that is unknown to the rest of the world. To alert the world to his country’s existence, the son of Taboulistan’s president decides to instigate a program of publicity terrorism. To that end, he recruits our two naive shepherds, their mission: to destroy the Eiffel Tower! But the France that Muzafar and Feruz discover is far from what they had expected...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSanta Claus Is a Stinker (1982)
Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a cross-dresser visit their office.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSerial Teachers 2 (2015)
The worst teachers of France landed in England for an ultra-secret mission. With Boulard, the King of the Dunces, they are parachuted in the best school of the country, and they will apply their famous methods on the future of the nation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSeven Years of Marriage (2003)
After seven years of marriage, a couple of professional workers (he, a doctor and she, a banker) try to refresh their sex life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisOldies But Goodies (2024)
As the Lino Vartan shelter, which takes orphans and seniors in, has to shut down for health issues, Milann has no choice but to accept the invitation of a retirement home in the south of France.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisFear City: A Family-Style Comedy (1994)
A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThose Happy Days (2006)
Set in 1992, a manager Vincent has to run a children's holiday camp for three weeks and to face the unexpected concerning the place, his colleagues, various problems linked to children about the rooms, trips, their belongings...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCoexist (2017)
An opportunistic music producer brings together a rabbi, a priest, and an imam to preach about peaceful coexistence through song. But he's in for a surprise when he realizes the religious leaders are far from saints.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Restaurant (1966)
A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wing or the Thigh? (1976)
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Cabbage Soup (1981)
Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like French Fried Vacation?
The closest matches to French Fried Vacation are French Fried Vacation 2 (1979), The Dinner Game (1998) and The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after French Fried Vacation?
People who watched French Fried Vacation most often go on to The Dinner Game (1998), The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972) and The ComDads (1983).
What is the highest-rated movie like French Fried Vacation?
The Dinner Game (1998), rated 7.8/10 by 2,133 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like French Fried Vacation?
Oldies But Goodies (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Is French Fried Vacation part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to French Fried Vacation, which includes French Fried Vacation 2 (1979).
Are there French movies like French Fried Vacation?
Yes: French Fried Vacation 2 (1979), The Dinner Game (1998) and The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972).
How are movies similar to French Fried Vacation chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside French Fried Vacation, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.