Movies like Aaltra (2004)
The best movies like Aaltra (2004) are The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005), Sitcom (1998) and Keep an Eye Out (2018). If Aaltra 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 ratedFear City: A Family-Style Comedy (1994)7.5/10 from 1,385 votes
- NewestCall My Agent! The Movie (2026)Released 2026
- In FrenchSitcom (1998)Also in French
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005)
After suffering terrible headaches and stomach cramps, Mr. Lăzărescu, a lonely 63 year-old man, calls for an ambulance, beginning one man’s hellish journey through Bucharest hospitals in search of proper medical care. As the night unfolds, his health starts to deteriorate fast.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSitcom (1998)
The adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother's discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister's suicide attempt and sadomasochist tendencies, and the intrusion of a very free-spirited maid and her husband. And it all started with the arrival in the family of an innocent looking rat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
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 thisOn War (2008)
After a freak accident changes his perspective on life, a Parisian filmmaker meets a stranger who brings him to a commune that's populated by free-spirited women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
A Self-Made Hero (1996)
Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Crisis (1992)
Victor is a legal advisor who finds himself abandoned by his wife and fired the same day. He tries to seek comfort from different friends and family members, but everyone he meets is concerned with their own problems. His morale begins to falter when he realizes that no one cares about him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGodard's Passion (1982)
While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSamba (2014)
Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEverything Went Fine (2021)
When her elderly father has a stroke, Emmanuelle rushes to his bedside. Sick and half-paralysed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him end his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOur Day Will Come (2010)
Redheaded teen Remy is bullied by his soccer teammates and drawn into fights with his younger sister and mother in their cramped apartment. After a flare-up of domestic violence, he flees home and is tracked down by a bitter guidance counselor, Patrick, also a redhead. Patrick looks upon Remy’s sullen insolence with both sympathy and disdain and decides to toughen him up...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 this2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLife of Riley (2014)
In the midst of rehearsals for a new play, amateur dramatics proponents Colin and Kathryn receive the shattering news that their friend George is fatally ill and only has a few months to live.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisOther People's Children (2022)
Rachel loves her life, her students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she grows close to his 4-year-old daughter, Leila. She tucks her in, looks after her, and loves her like a mother... which she isn’t. Not yet. Rachel is 40. The desire for a family of her own is growing stronger, and the clock is ticking. Is it too late?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTrophy Wife (2010)
In 1977 France, tightfisted factory owner Robert Pujol is so shocked when his workers strike for higher wages that he suffers a heart attack. His acquiescent wife, Suzanne, whose father had founded the factory, takes over management duties during Robert's convalescence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Big Hit (2020)
Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to stage Samuel Beckett’s famous play Waiting for Godot. When he is allowed to take the colorful band of convicts on a tour outside of prison, Etienne finally has the chance to thrive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAt War (2018)
After promising 1100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a factory decide to suddenly close up shop. Laurent takes the lead in a fight against this decision.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMisericordia (2024)
Jérémie returns to his hometown for the funeral of his former boss, the village baker. He decides to stay for a few days with Martine, the man's widow. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbor and a priest with strange intentions make Jérémie's short stay in the village take an unexpected turn.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSlack Bay (2016)
Summer, 1910. Inspectors Machin and Malfoy investigate the mysterious disappearances of several tourists on the beautiful beaches of Slack Bay, where a strange community of fishermen lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisPatients (2017)
After a serious sport accident in a swimming pool, Ben, now an incomplete quadriplegic, arrives in a rehabilitation center. He meets with other handicapped persons (tetraplegics, paraplegics, traumatized crania), all victims of accidents, as well as a handicapped since his early childhood. They go through impotence, despair and resignation, with their daily struggle to learn how to move a finger or to hold a fork. Some of them slowly find a little mobility while others receive the verdict of the handicap for life. Despite everything, hope and friendship help them endure their difficulties.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe 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 thisLa Chinoise (1967)
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLittle Tickles (2018)
Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Girl Cut in Two (2007)
A TV weather girl is torn between an older man, a famous married author whom she loves but who won't leave his wife, and a semi-deranged young heir to an industrial fortune who loves her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMeet the Barbarians (2024)
The municipality of a small Breton village has decided to welcome a family of Ukrainian refugees. To their surprise, they receive Fayad family – coming from Syria. They thwart all the clichés that the French expected: they are friendly, refined, educated… So much so that, in this small, humming village, it is no longer clear which side the barbarians are on…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGoodbye to Language (2014)
"The idea is simple / A married woman and a single man meet / They love, they argue, fists fly / A dog strays between town and country / The seasons pass / The man and woman meet again / The dog finds itself between them / The other is in one, / the one is in the other / and they are three / The former husband shatters everything / A second film begins: / the same as the first, / and yet not / From the human race we pass to metaphor / This ends in barking / and a baby's cries / In the meantime, we will have seen people talking of the demise of the dollar, of truth in mathematics and of the death of a robin." -JLG
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Clink of Ice (2010)
An alcoholic writer is visited by an incarnation of his cancer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
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 thisCall My Agent! The Movie (2026)
Five years after ASK Agency closed, debut director Andréa loses her lead actor just days before filming and reunited with her old team — for better or worse.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Image Book (2018)
In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the association or opposition of ideas, the aesthetic spark through editing, the keystone. The author performs the work of a sculptor. The hand, for this, is essential. He praises it at the start. “There are the five fingers. The five senses. The five parts of the world (…). The true condition of man is to think with his hands. Jean-Luc Godard composes a dazzling syncopation of sequences, the surge of which evokes the violence of the flows of our contemporary screens, taken to a level of incandescence rarely achieved. Crowned at Cannes, the last Godard is a shock film, with twilight beauty.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Aaltra?
The closest matches to Aaltra are The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005), Sitcom (1998) and Keep an Eye Out (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Aaltra?
People who watched Aaltra most often go on to The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005), Sitcom (1998) and Keep an Eye Out (2018).
What is the highest-rated movie like Aaltra?
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy (1994), rated 7.5/10 by 1,385 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Aaltra?
Call My Agent! The Movie (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Aaltra?
Yes: Sitcom (1998), Keep an Eye Out (2018) and On War (2008).
How are movies similar to Aaltra chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Aaltra, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.