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Movies like Cinématon n°1979 : Yann Collette

The best movies like Cinématon n°1979 : Yann Collette are The Public Woman (1984), Paris Je T'aime (2006) and Cookies (1975). If Cinématon n°1979 : Yann Collette hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. The Public Woman (1984)

    An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. She winds up playing a real-life role posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, who is manipulated by the filmmaker into commiting a political assassination.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  2. Paris Je T'aime (2006)

    Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  3. Cookies (1975)

    Henri Serin (Jean-Pierre Marielle), an umbrella salesman, leads a quiet life between his work, his family and his passion for painting. During his many business trips, Henri indulges in a few amorous escapades, which provide a welcome change from the tiresome daily routine his bigoted wife locks him into. One fine day, Henri decides to drop everything and live on love and fresh water. He ends up in Pont-Aven, where he meets Émile, a local painter imitating Gauguin, with whom he shares his drinking and other feminine attractions.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  4. Antoine and Colette (1962)

    After indulging in much delinquency in his youth, seventeen-year-old Antoine Doinel is now an upstanding member of society working for Philips Records, which allows him to indulge in his love of music. At the Youth Concerts, he has noticed the same young woman at several performances. She is Colette, and the two begin to date. Colette treats Antoine like a buddy, while Antoine has fallen in love with her.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  5. La Pointe Courte (1956)

    A penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the inhabitants of Sète in the South of France.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  6. Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)

    Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  7. Step Up (2006)

    Delinquent Tyler Gage receives the opportunity of a lifetime after vandalizing a performing arts school, gaining him the chance to earn a scholarship and dance with up-and-coming dancer Nora.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  8. Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963)

    In the seacoast town of Boulogne, antique furniture saleswoman Hélène lives with her stepson, Bernard, who's back from military duty in Algiers. An old lover of Hélène's comes to visit, Alphonse, with his niece Françoise; he too is back from Algiers, where he ran a café. Bernard speaks of his fiancée, Muriel, whom Hélène has not met. The past is obscured by guilt, misperceptions, and missed possibilities. Appearances deceive, things change. As Hélène and Alphonse try to sort out a renewal, everyone seems off-kilter just enough to hint that all cannot end well.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  9. Claire's Camera (2018)

    The story of female friendship as Frenchwoman Claire helps the subject of her photograph, Min-Hee, discover why she was fired without apparent cause.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  10. Desire (2011)

    In a social context deteriorated by a countrywide economic crisis, the life of several people will be turned upside down after they meet Cécile, a character who symbolizes desire.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  11. The Sower (2017)

    In 1852, the mountain village in Provence where Violette lives is brutally deprived of all its men after the repression of the republicans ordered by Napoleon III. Women spend months in total isolation, desperate to see their men again. In this situation, they make an oath in case a man arrives in the village.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  12. Happening (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

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  13. The Things of Life (1970)

    The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memories of the past with Catherine, his ex-wife; but his true destiny awaits him at a crossroads on his way to Rennes…

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  14. Last Summer (2023)

    One summer, a French teenager who has been living with his mother in the city moves in with his estranged father’s family in the countryside, where he clashes with his stepmother.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  15. Pardon Mon Affaire (1976)

    On an otherwise normal day, Étienne, a happily married man and a good father, sees something that stops him dead in his tracks: a gorgeous woman in a billowing red dress. Long after she has left his vision, her memory continues to haunt his mind. He falls instantly in love with her and tries everything to get to know her better. Helping Étienne snare his elusive lady in red are his three bumbling buddies, which all have secret affairs and/or cheat on their wives.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  16. My Little Loves (1974)

    Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after a year of high school, goes to live with his mother in the south of France; a harsher environment which rapidly changes his perception of friends, work, and women.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  17. LOL (Laughing Out Loud) (2009)

    Lola is a striking teenaged girl who is on the cusp of adulthood and longs to rush into the adult world of independence, freedom and sexual exploits, but is tenaciously held back by her mother.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  18. Mr. Morgan's Last Love (2013)

    A widowed professor living in Paris develops a special relationship with a younger French woman.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  19. French 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  20. Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno (2018)

    Amin, an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns home for the summer, in Sète, South of France. It is a time of reconnecting with his family and his childhood friends. Together with his cousin Tony and his best friend Ophélie, he spends his time between the Tunisian restaurant run by his parents, the local bars and the beaches frequented by girls on holiday.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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What are the best movies like Cinématon n°1979 : Yann Collette?

The closest matches to Cinématon n°1979 : Yann Collette are The Public Woman (1984), Paris Je T'aime (2006) and Cookies (1975). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Cinématon n°1979 : Yann Collette?

Start with The Public Woman (1984), the closest match to Cinématon n°1979 : Yann Collette.

What is the highest-rated movie like Cinématon n°1979 : Yann Collette?

Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), rated 7.7/10 by 824 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Cinématon n°1979 : Yann Collette?

Last Summer (2023) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there French movies like Cinématon n°1979 : Yann Collette?

Yes: The Public Woman (1984), Paris Je T'aime (2006) and Cookies (1975).

How are movies similar to Cinématon n°1979 : Yann Collette chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Cinématon n°1979 : Yann Collette, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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