Movies like French Kiss (2004)
The best movies like French Kiss (2004) are Paris Can Wait (2016), Darling (1965) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923). If French Kiss hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedNight on Earth (1991)7.5/10 from 1,111 votes
- NewestParis Christmas Waltz (2023)Released 2023
Paris Can Wait (2016)
Anne is at a crossroads in her life. Long married to a successful, driven but inattentive movie producer, she unexpectedly finds herself taking a car trip from Cannes to Paris with Jacques, a business associate of her husband. What should be a seven-hour drive turns into a carefree two-day adventure replete with diversions involving picturesque sights, fine food and wine, humor, wisdom and romance - reawakening Anne's senses and giving her a new lust for life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisDarling (1965)
Diana, a beautiful but shallow and easily distracted model and failed actress, toys with the affections of several men while attempting to gain fame and fortune in Swinging London.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisParis Christmas Waltz (2023)
Emma relinquishes her job so a colleague with a family will keep his. Contemplating life’s next steps, Emma meets a professional dancer, Leo whose love for competitive dancing is waning, until a once in a lifetime opportunity arises for the novice to join the pro and sweep all of Paris off its feet.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDangerous Liaisons (1988)
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGigi (1958)
A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisValmont (1989)
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as he will. However, in the process of seducing the married woman, Valmont falls in love.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Isolated in the bell tower of Notre Dame, Quasimodo longs to experience the world beyond the cathedral walls, despite the wishes of his stern guardian, the Judge of Paris Claude Frollo. His first venture into the city leads him to Esmeralda, a fearless Romani woman whose defiance of Frollo's tyranny draws her—and Quasimodo—into his dangerous obsession.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCrimes of Passion (1984)
Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a murderous sex toy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAround the World in 80 Days (2004)
A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFemme Fatale (2002)
A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enemies from Laure's secret past know who and where she is. And they all want their share of the diamond heist. Or her life. Or both.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThat Touch of Mink (1962)
Cathy Timberlake is en route to a job interview when a car transporting businessman Philip Shayne covers her in mud. He sends his assistant, Roger, to apologize, but upon meeting Cathy, Roger knows that she would be a suitable match for his boss. Despite their mutual attraction, Cathy and Philip want different things. Philip wants a fling, while Cathy wants a marriage. As they travel to exotic locales, their differing motivations are put to the test.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic ambition while supporting his new bride with a deadening job at a newspaper wire service. But when an old investment suddenly makes the family wealthy, their marriage begins to unravel — until a sudden tragedy changes everything.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCigarette Burns (2005)
With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screening caused the viewers to become homicidally insane.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLove in the Afternoon (1957)
A middle-aged playboy becomes fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with a client's wife.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Great Race (1965)
Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNight on Earth (1991)
A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIrma la Douce (1963)
When a recently fired policeman falls in love with a French prostitute, he doesn't want her to be with other men, so he creates an alter-ego in order to become her only customer.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVictor/Victoria (1996)
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life. Filmed live during its opening night (October 25, 1995) at the Marquis Theatre in New York City.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Dreamers (2003)
When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like French Kiss?
The closest matches to French Kiss are Paris Can Wait (2016), Darling (1965) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after French Kiss?
Start with Paris Can Wait (2016), the closest match to French Kiss.
What is the highest-rated movie like French Kiss?
Night on Earth (1991), rated 7.5/10 by 1,111 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like French Kiss?
Paris Christmas Waltz (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like French Kiss?
Yes: Paris Can Wait (2016), Darling (1965) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923).
How are movies similar to French Kiss chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside French Kiss, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.