Movies like Des fleurs pour Simone de Beauvoir (2007)
The best movies like Des fleurs pour Simone de Beauvoir (2007) are Jane B. by Agnès V. (1988), Simone: Woman of the Century (2022) and Bettie Page Reveals All (2013). If Des fleurs pour Simone de Beauvoir hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Des fleurs pour Simone de Beauvoir
Quick picks
- Highest ratedSimone: Woman of the Century (2022)7.9/10 from 386 votes
- NewestThe Divine Sarah Bernhardt (2024)Released 2024
- In FrenchJane B. by Agnès V. (1988)Also in French
Jane B. by Agnès V. (1988)
The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fourtieth birthday—a milestone she admits to have some anxiety over—Jane B. by Agnès V. contrasts the private, reflective Birkin with Birkin the icon.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSimone: Woman of the Century (2022)
Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era defending a humanist message still keenly relevant today.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisBettie Page Reveals All (2013)
The world's greatest pin-up model and cult icon, Bettie Page, recounts the true story of how her free expression overcame government witch-hunts to help launch America's sexual revolution. When she saw the film The Notorious Bettie Page, produced by HBO in 2006, the main person concerned reacted unequivocally: “Lies! Lies!” In a long interview recorded shortly before her death, the woman who entered the collective unconscious as the ultimate pin-up gave her version of events to director Mark Mori. In a gravelly voice, Bettie Page tells her own story and lifts the veil on areas often hidden by images that have made so many men and women fantasize since the 1950s: her abused childhood, an eclipse that lasted forty years, her mental illness. Through testimonies and unpublished archives, this documentary brings back to life a body and a face endlessly declined before our eyes, just as Bettie wanted: “I would like people to remember me as I was in the photos.”
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisViolette (2013)
Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's quest for freedom through writing and on Simone's conviction that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisMadame Curie (1943)
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJane Fonda in Five Acts (2018)
Girl next door, activist, so-called traitor, fitness tycoon, Oscar winner: Jane Fonda has lived a life of controversy, tragedy and transformation – and she's done it all in the public eye. An intimate look at one woman's singular journey.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Divine Sarah Bernhardt (2024)
1915, Sarah Bernhardt is the world's first star. Free. Modern. Divine. Eccentric. Visionary... Between legend and fantasy, Sarah Bernhardt tells us the love story that marked her life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHenri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (2009)
In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot's production of L'Enfer came to a halt. Despite huge expectations, major studio backing and an unlimited budget, after three weeks the production collapsed. This documentary presents Inferno's incredible expressionistic original rushes, screen tests, and on-location footage, whilst also reconstructing Clouzot's original vision, and shedding light on the ill-fated endeavor through interviews, dramatizations of unfilmed scenes, and Clouzot's own notes.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHappening (2021)
France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to do so.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWonder Boy (2019)
At age 25, Olivier Rousteing was named the creative director of the French luxury fashion house, Balmain. At the time, Rousteing was a relatively unknown designer, but in the decade since, he’s proven his business prowess and artistic instinct by leading Balmain to new heights. Wonderboy gives the viewer the rare opportunity to experience the inner sanctum of the fashion world, as we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with this extraordinary individual while he works.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLa Vie en Rose (2007)
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her grandmother's brothel, Piaf was discovered in 1935 by nightclub owner Louis Leplee, who persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness. Piaf became one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the indelible signatures of the 20th century.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like this150 Milligrams (2016)
In the hospital where she works in Brest, France, a lung specialist discovers a direct link between suspicious deaths and state-approved medicine. She fights single-handedly for the truth to come out.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLittle Girl Blue (2023)
In 2016, French writer and photographer Carole Achache took her own life. After Carole's death, her daughter Mona Achache, a film director, discovers thousands of photos, letters and recordings that Carole left behind, but these buried secrets make her disappearance even more of an enigma. Through the power of filmmaking and the beauty of incarnation with the help of actress Marion Cotillard, the director brings her mother back to life to retrace her journey and find out who she really was.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDalida (2017)
Based on the true story of acclaimed music icon "Dalida" born in Cairo, who gained celebrity in the 50s, singing in French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Italian, playing in awarded Youssef Chahine's picture "Le Sixième Jour", and who later committed suicide in 1987 in Paris, after selling more than 130 million records worldwide.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAs Above, So Below (2014)
When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2018)
The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSuffragette (2015)
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisColette (2018)
After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Truth (2019)
Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFeminists: What Were They Thinking? (2018)
In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. This documentary revisits those photos, those women and those times and takes aim at our culture today that alarmingly shows the need for continued change.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Des fleurs pour Simone de Beauvoir?
The closest matches to Des fleurs pour Simone de Beauvoir are Jane B. by Agnès V. (1988), Simone: Woman of the Century (2022) and Bettie Page Reveals All (2013). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Des fleurs pour Simone de Beauvoir?
Start with Jane B. by Agnès V. (1988), the closest match to Des fleurs pour Simone de Beauvoir.
What is the highest-rated movie like Des fleurs pour Simone de Beauvoir?
Simone: Woman of the Century (2022), rated 7.9/10 by 386 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Des fleurs pour Simone de Beauvoir?
The Divine Sarah Bernhardt (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Des fleurs pour Simone de Beauvoir?
Yes: Jane B. by Agnès V. (1988), Simone: Woman of the Century (2022) and Violette (2013).
How are movies similar to Des fleurs pour Simone de Beauvoir chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Des fleurs pour Simone de Beauvoir, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.