Movies like The Closet (2001)
The best movies like The Closet (2001) are Would I Lie to You? (1997), The Dinner Game (1998) and The Valet (2006). If The Closet 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 2,129 votes
- NewestMy Out-Laws (2019)Released 2019
- In FrenchWould I Lie to You? (1997)Also in French
Would I Lie to You? (1997)
Jobless loner Eddie Vuibert gets a lucky break when a rich Jewish entrepreneur mistakes him for a Jew and gives him a sweet job in the Parisian fashion district.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 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 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 thisHappiness Is in the Field (1995)
Francis, the boss of a small plumbing supply company, is harassed by tax collectors, striking employees, and an impossible wife and daughter. His only joy is sharing lunch with his friend Gerard. Then a TV show called "where are you?" shows a woman from Gers who is searching for her husband who disappeared 28 years ago. The lost husband looks like an identical twin of Francis...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWith Open Arms (2017)
Jean-Étienne Fougerole is an intellectual bohemian who released his new novel "In Open Arms" and calling the wealthiest people to welcome home the families in need. While he promotes his book during a televised debate, his opponent criticized him for not applying what he himself advocates. While stuck, Jean-Étienne Fougerole accepts the challenge, for fear of being discredited. The same evening, a family of Roma rings the door of his Marnes-la-Coquette villa and the writer feels obliged to house them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisNothing to Declare (2010)
During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisAt Home with the Rozes (2003)
Two ex-convicts, MG and Gilbert find refuge in a charming middle-class house whose couple is about to celebrate its 20-year old marriage. Our duo has no other solution than to take this entire brood in hostage. But, contrary to all expectations, they are warmly greeted by the occupants who don't think twice before helping them, they are even ready to put their guests off, even to kill them if necessary...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Corsican File (2004)
Jack Palmer is a Paris-based detective with a huge ego. Ange Leoni is a rebel native of Corsica whose location can't be pinned down by even the most dogged of detectives. Approached by an obscure, small-time attorney and charged with the seemingly simple task of locating the missing Leoni, gifted gumshoe Palmer accepts the job under the assumption that it will be the easiest money of his professional career. But this superstar sleuth is about to find out just how mistaken he was...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisWould I Lie to You? 2 (2001)
Eddie, Dov, and Yvan are back, still working in Paris' Sentier textile district, This time they're confronting the high-stakes world of large distribution after striking a deal with Eurodiscount, a European hypermarket chain.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrench Fried Vacation (1978)
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Price to Pay (2007)
Jean-Pierre, a wealthy businessman, is lonely. He still desires his wife but she only seems interested in shopping and the beauty salon. Tired of lunching alone every day, one day he decides to invite his chauffeur to join him, and a relationship quickly develops as the two find they have much in common. Are they just cash machines for their wives? Don't they deserve some love in return? Jean-Pierre confiscates his wife's credit card, but things don't turn out exactly the way he'd hoped...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisFrench 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: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhat's in a Name (2012)
Vincent, a wealthy real estate agent, is invited to dinner by his sister Elizabeth and her husband Peter, both professors in Paris. Claude, a childhood friend and trombonist in a symphony orchestra, is also present. Vincent brings news from the prenatal examination of his and his wife Anna's unborn son. The name chosen by the soon-to-be parents strongly offends the others for many reasons. The dispute between the guests quickly escalates and before long the resurgence of old grudges and hidden secrets is unavoidable...
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 thisChouchou (2003)
Choukri, alias Chouchou, a transvestite Maghrebi with clear eyes, comes illegally to Paris to find his nephew. Hired as an assistant by a psychotherapist, known for his good mood, he also work as a waiter in a transvestite cabaret of Clichy where he meets Stanislas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLife Is a Long Quiet River (1988)
Two babies are switched at birth. When the mistake is discovered 12 years later, it leads to complications in the lives of both families. One family is affluent, with dutiful and (apparently) contented children. The other family is poor, with rambunctious (even delinquent) children, often hungry, but with lots of laughter in the house.
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 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 thisMy Best Friend (2006)
Catherine refuses to believe that her business partner, the unlikeable François, has a best friend, so she challenges him to set up an introduction. Scrambling to find someone willing to pose as his best pal, François enlists the services of a charming taxi driver to play the part.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisMy Out-Laws (2019)
When their daughter decides to get a divorce, Coline and Andre can’t come to terms with it as they are very fond of their son-in-law. The only way to keep seeing him is in secret. But for how long can they lead a double life?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisDon't Die Too Hard! (2001)
Eric and Ramzy are working as window washers at the Montparnasse skyscraper in Paris. Thinking that he has a date set up with beautiful executive Marie-Joelle (who in reality hates his guts), Ramzy stays at work late while Eric hangs around with him. As a result, the pair witness a gang of terrorists seize the tower and take its late-night occupants (including Marie- Joelle) hostage. Knowing that only they can save the day, Eric and Ramzy swing into action.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWalter (2019)
For Goran and his team of amateur shooters, the plan was almost perfect: to enter a hypermarket at night to rob a jeweler. But these "broken arms" had not anticipated the arrival of a vigil like no other: Walter, a former African warlord who will send them to hell .
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisWelcome to the Sticks (2008)
Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSerial (Bad) Weddings 2 (2019)
Claude and Marie Verneuil face a new crisis. The four spouses of their daughters, David, Rachid, Chao and Charles decided to leave France for various reasons. Here they are imagining their lives elsewhere.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisHe Even Has Your Eyes (2017)
Paul is married to Sali. Everything would be fine if they could get a child. Until the day when Sali receives the call that they have been waiting for so long: their adoption file is approved. He is adorable, he is 6 months old, his name is Benjamin. He is blond with blue eyes and white. They - are black.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFamily Is Family (2018)
Valentin D is a hot designer architect who claims to be an orphan because he is too ashamed to admit he is the son of working-class scrap metal merchants from the north of France.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies 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
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Closet?
The closest matches to The Closet are Would I Lie to You? (1997), The Dinner Game (1998) and The Valet (2006). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Closet?
People who watched The Closet most often go on to Would I Lie to You? (1997), The Dinner Game (1998) and The Valet (2006).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Closet?
The Dinner Game (1998), rated 7.8/10 by 2,129 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Closet?
My Out-Laws (2019) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like The Closet?
Yes: Would I Lie to You? (1997), The Dinner Game (1998) and The Valet (2006).
How are movies similar to The Closet chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Closet, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.