Movies like The Hairdresser's Husband (1990)
The best movies like The Hairdresser's Husband (1990) are The Girl on the Bridge (1999), Ridicule (1996) and Priceless (2006). If The Hairdresser's Husband 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 ratedLa Belle Époque (2019)7.4/10 from 1,095 votes
- NewestLa Belle Époque (2019)Released 2019
- In FrenchThe Girl on the Bridge (1999)Also in French
The Girl on the Bridge (1999)
It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him. They travel along the northern bank of the Mediterranean to perform.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRidicule (1996)
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPriceless (2006)
A beautiful young gold-digger mistakes a lowly hotel clerk as a rich and therefore worthwhile catch.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMélo (1986)
In 1920s Paris, violinists and lifelong friends Pierre Belcroix and Marcel Blanc are happy with their lives, although Marcel has become famous and Pierre has not. Pierre is married to Romaine, a stylish young flapper. However, Marcel meets and falls in love with her, which Marcel little suspects.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996)
Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other lovers?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Student (1988)
An ambitious teaching student's finals studies are interrupted by a passionate affair with a jazz musician.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisFrench Twist (1995)
After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTo Paint or Make Love (2005)
An affluent, middle-aged couple's uneventful lives are forever changed when they move into an isolated house in the country and befriend an odd, younger couple.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Man (1996)
In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to sleep by her radiator, then she offers herself. She falls in love, giving him new life, clothes, a place to live. When he grouses that he must bar hop while she uses the flat for her work, she finds them a larger flat. He grows restless, seducing a manicurist and pressing her to prostitution. He's arrested for procuring, so Marie must decide what to do; he, too, must face the consequences of his choices.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMonsieur Hire (1989)
A French man spies on a lovely younger woman across the way. When he's spotted by the woman shortly after being questioned by the police about a local murder, the man's simple life becomes more complicated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisToo Beautiful for You (1989)
A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before his wife finds this particular entanglement of her husband's very difficult to accept.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMarius and Jeannette (1997)
Jeannette is a single mother living in a working-class community in Marseilles; she tries to support herself and her two kids on her salary as a check-out girl at a supermarket and lives in an apartment complex where everyone is thrown into close proximity with everyone else. Marius is working as a security guard at a cement factory that has gone out of business; he's also squatting in the building, since the plant is soon to be demolished and he'll be needing his money later on. One day, Jeannette happens by the factory, and spotting several cans of paint, tries to take two of them home with her. Marius spots her and tries to chase her away, while she rails at him with curses against the capitalist system. The next day, an apologetic Marius appears at her doorstep, cans of paint in hand; the two soon become friendly, and a romance begins to bloom, though it quickly becomes obvious that Jeannette's romance novel fantasies are a bit off the mark from what Marius has in mind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMan on the Train (2002)
A man, Milan steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier. The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLa Belle Époque (2019)
Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love through a company that allows customers to return to the time period of their choosing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHe Loves Me… He Loves Me Not (2002)
A talented art student named Angélique is passionately in love with Dr. Loïc Le Garrec, a handsome married man whom she believes will leave his wife. When he eventually decides to stay in his marriage, it causes Angélique to spiral. However, as the story shifts from Angélique's perspective to Loïc's, the surprising truth about their relationship is revealed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVenus Beauty Institute (1999)
Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train station. Witnessing how she turns around a humiliating situation, younger sculptor Antoine becomes so smitten that he breaks up with his fiancée and sets out to win Angèle's heart. Meanwhile, Angèle attempts to quash the budding romance of her young co-worker, Marie, and a much older widowed client, despite their obvious rapport.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlind Date (2015)
He invents puzzles. He’s committed body and soul to his work and needs silence to be able to concentrate. She is an accomplished pianist and can’t live without music. She must prepare for a competition that could change her life. They are going to be forced to coexist without seeing each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove Street (2002)
A handyman in a 1940s Paris brothel tries to help the prostitute he loves with her singing career and romantic life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Moliere (2007)
Molière, a down-and-out actor-cum-playwright up to his ears in debt. When the wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt so that Molière's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise, hilarity ensues.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSwann in Love (1984)
In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th-century Parisian aristocrat falls in love with a lower-class prostitute who seduces him but never loves him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisNelly and Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly begins dating his good-looking young publisher.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies 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 thisThe Eighth Day (1996)
An unusual and wonderful friendship develops between a busy but unhappy salesman and a resident of a mental asylum.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRegular Lovers (2005)
1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend, Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself. They fall in love. A year passes; François continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and François do?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHappily Ever After (2004)
Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Horseman on the Roof (1995)
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLa Belle Noiseuse (1991)
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago stopped: La Belle Noiseuse. And he wants Marianne as model.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLes Miserables (1995)
In WWII France, poor and illiterate Henri Fortin is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSubway (1985)
Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen some documents. While hiding out in the back rooms and conduits of the Metro, Fred encounters a subterranean society of eccentric characters and petty criminals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMénage (1986)
A bisexual petty criminal named Bob encounters a married couple arguing in a bar. Bob breaks up the fight and proceeds to seduce first the wife and then the husband. Then Bob teaches the couple how to be burglars and they join him in his criminal exploits.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Hairdresser's Husband?
The closest matches to The Hairdresser's Husband are The Girl on the Bridge (1999), Ridicule (1996) and Priceless (2006). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Hairdresser's Husband?
People who watched The Hairdresser's Husband most often go on to The Girl on the Bridge (1999), Ridicule (1996) and Priceless (2006).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Hairdresser's Husband?
La Belle Époque (2019), rated 7.4/10 by 1,095 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Hairdresser's Husband?
La Belle Époque (2019) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like The Hairdresser's Husband?
Yes: The Girl on the Bridge (1999), Ridicule (1996) and Priceless (2006).
How are movies similar to The Hairdresser's Husband chosen?
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