Movies like The Spanish Apartment (2002)
The best movies like The Spanish Apartment (2002) are Smoking / No Smoking (1993), Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001) and The Taste of Others (2000). If The Spanish Apartment hooked you with its drama and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedRise (2022)7.4/10 from 467 votes
- NewestRise (2022)Released 2022
- In FrenchSmoking / No Smoking (1993)Also in French
- Same seriesChinese Puzzle (2013)Spanish Apartment Trilogy
Smoking / No Smoking (1993)
Two actors portray eighteen Yorkshire villagers, who offer several iterations of their lives depending on whether or not they lit a cigarette at a certain point in time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVa Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001)
After finding love and success in Italy, French actress Camille returns to Paris, the city she fled three years ago. She secretly dreads confronting her ex-boyfriend Pierre. Her new lover Ugo also has a secret, as he’s meeting with the intriguing Dominique while on his quest for an unpublished manuscript.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
The Taste of Others (2000)
Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice" in order to see his niece play a bit part. He is taken with the play's strangely familiar-looking leading lady Clara Devaux. During the course of the show, Castella soon remembers that he once hired and then promptly fired the actress as an English language tutor. He immediately goes out and signs up for language lessons. Thinking that he is nothing but an ill-tempered philistine with bad taste, Clara rejects him until Castella charms her off her feet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChinese Puzzle (2013)
Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.
Why it matches: Same series: Spanish Apartment Trilogy · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRussian Dolls (2005)
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
Why it matches: Same series: Spanish Apartment Trilogy · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisDelicacy (2011)
A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe French Kissers (2009)
An awkward adolescent boy and his angst-ridden friends try their best to fit in amongst a cast of varied characters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSame Old Song (1997)
Business executive Odile seeks a new, larger apartment. Her younger sister Camille, having completed her doctoral thesis in history, is a Paris tour guide. Simon is a regular on Camille's tours as he's attracted to her. However, Camille has fallen for Marc, and they begin an affair. Nicolas is also looking for an apartment, since he hopes to eventually have his family join him in Paris.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLittle White Lies (2010)
Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested. They are finally forced to own up to the little white lies they've been telling each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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 & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHeartbreaker (2010)
Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only problem is that they only have one week to do so.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisParis (2008)
Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJet Lag (2002)
At Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, a beautician on her way to a new job in Mexico accidentally meets a cook who is on his way back from America. Labor strikes, bad weather, and pure luck cause the two of them to share a room overnight at the airport Hilton hotel. Will their initial mutual indifference and downright hostility turn into a one night stand or perhaps something more?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like this18 Years Old and Rising (2011)
Primo is an ordinary middle-class youngster studying for his baccalaureate, who gets side-tracked when he falls in love with a rich girl. They soon learn they have to deal with her condescending friends who look down upon this upstart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Housekeeper (2002)
After his wife leaves him for another man, Jacques hires a housekeeper, Laura, to keep his Paris apartment in order. As he starts increasing her hours and spending more time with her on her days off, Jacques is torn between the pleasure of Laura's company, and the headache that such an intrusion brings to his new domain of singlehood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Together Project (2016)
Samir, a lanky crane operator in Montreuil, falls madly for Agathe. As master swimmer at the pool Thorez he decides to take swimming lessons with her. But the lie does not last three lessons - Agathe hate liars. Chosen to represent the Seine-Saint-Denis, Agathe flies to Iceland for the 10th Congress of the International Masters Swimming. Samir has no choice but to fly in turn also.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnother Woman's Life (2012)
When the fun loving Marie sets her eyes on brooding comic book artist Paul, it sets off the kind of romantic sparks that quickly culminate in the bedroom. But the next morning brings its share of surprises as Marie crawls out of bed to discover her life flash-forwarded fifteen years down the road: Not only has she been married to Paul all this time, but she’s now the mother of a little boy the head of a powerful multinational investment firm and the proprietor of a fabulous apartment overlooking the Eiffel Tower. Quickly Marie discovers that all her achievements have not brought happiness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSomeone, Somewhere (2019)
Rémy and Mélanie live next door to each other in Paris but have never met. The two thirty-year-old Parisians search for connections online, but never have much success. Falling deeper into loneliness and depression, both decide to start attending regular therapy. With the help of their therapists, they uncover the real roots of their issues, and find that the connection they were both searching for is much closer than they thought.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHow Much Do You Love Me? (2005)
After winning the lottery, François goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to a prostitute named Daniela to live with him as his wife until his money runs out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Exes (2017)
In Paris, the City of Love, five very different couples cross paths while dealing with break-ups, exes and new love interests. None of them have anything in common. But everyone is someone else’s ex – and love works in mysterious ways…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisGood Old Daze (1995)
Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They remember their teenage, their laughs, their dreams, their stupid pranks... a description of the French youth in the middle of the seventies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKings & Queen (2004)
Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her aging professor father, Louis, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. During her stay, she reaches out to her former lover, Ismaël, a viola player and father figure to Elias who has been committed against his will to a mental hospital. Ismaël, however, has his own problems to sort out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Names of Love (2010)
Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn't hesitate to sleep with those who don't agree with her to convert them to her cause - which is a lot of people, as all right-leaning people are concerned. Generally, it works pretty well. Until the day she meets Arthur Martin, a discreet forty-something who doesn't like taking risks. She imagines that with a name like that, he's got to be slightly fascist. But names are deceitful and appearances deceiving.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFrenchmen (2003)
The life of four best friends in Paris: Antoine (a gym school teacher), Jeff (director of a monthly journal), Alex (Jeff's associate in the monthly journal and a Don Juan) and Manu (owner of fine food store). Their time is shared between their respective jobs, their relationship with women (their own and others...) and the times they meet together to discuss about life and play sport lottery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove Me If You Dare (2003)
As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might be a way to avoid the fact that they are truly meant for one another.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe 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 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 thisRise (2022)
Elise thought she had the perfect life: an ideal boyfriend and a promising career as a ballet dancer. It all falls apart the day she catches him cheating on her with her stage backup; and after she suffers an injury on stage, it seems like she might not be able to dance ever again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGrande école (2004)
Paul and Agnes have been going out for quite a while and Agnes is shocked to learn that he'd rather live with two roommates on campus than move in with her. As soon as he meets one of his roommates, Louis-Anault, Paul's behavior changes - he is attracted to Louis without realizing so himself. Agnes, on the other hand, gets quite jealous and offers a bet: Whoever gets to have Louis-Anault first, wins... If she does, Paul will no longer explore his homosexual desires, if he does - she'll walk away. Meanwhile, Paul meets Mecir, a young Arab worker, who shows him there's more to life than elite colleges...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Spanish Apartment?
The closest matches to The Spanish Apartment are Smoking / No Smoking (1993), Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001) and The Taste of Others (2000). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Spanish Apartment?
People who watched The Spanish Apartment most often go on to Smoking / No Smoking (1993), Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001) and The Taste of Others (2000).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Spanish Apartment?
Rise (2022), rated 7.4/10 by 467 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Spanish Apartment?
Rise (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Is The Spanish Apartment part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Spanish Apartment Trilogy, which includes Chinese Puzzle (2013) and Russian Dolls (2005).
Are there French movies like The Spanish Apartment?
Yes: Smoking / No Smoking (1993), Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001) and The Taste of Others (2000).
How are movies similar to The Spanish Apartment chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Spanish Apartment, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.