Movies like La Page blanche (2012)
The best movies like La Page blanche (2012) are Broken Palace (2014), The Celluloid Closet (1996) and The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). If La Page blanche hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
La Page blanche
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Bad and the Beautiful (1952)7.3/10 from 316 votes
- NewestThe Irishman: In Conversation (2019)Released 2019
- In FrenchBelmondo, le magnifique (2017)Also in French
Broken Palace (2014)
A short documentary about the rapidly disappearing era of heritage movie palaces and the film going experience once offered within those hallowed walls.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Celluloid Closet (1996)
Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Film contains fabulous footage from 120 films showing the changing face of cinema sexuality, from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSteve McQueen: The Essence of Cool (2005)
Friends, family, co-stars and admirers of actor Steve McQueen talk about his life and his movie career.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Only Image Remains (2014)
Starting with her own memories of working as an actress on Abbas Kiarostami's Ten, filmmaker Roya Akbari proceeds to elicit other testimonies on the masters of Iranian cinema from three people who are themselves among the foremost Iranian directors: Rafi Pitts on Parviz Kimiavi; Amir Naderi on Sohrab Shahid Saless; and Bahram Bayzai on Arby Ovanessian. Bayzai also analyses Haji Agha, the Cinema Actor (1933) by Ovanes Ohanian, considered the first feature film made in Iran.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Belmondo, le magnifique (2017)
With more than 70 films and 160 million cumulative tickets in France, Jean-Paul Belmondo is one of the essential stars of French cinema.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder (2017)
A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a filmmaker who never was a boring man, a superb mind who had ten commandments, of which the first nine were: “Thou shalt not bore.”
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Steamroller and the Violin (1961)
Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally meets and befriends worker Sergei, who works on a steamroller in their upscale Moscow neighborhood.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStrange Bedfellows (2004)
Two 'very straight' old timers have to learn how to pass as a loving gay couple after falsely claiming same-sex status to take advantage of newly legislated tax laws.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
Jean and Matt Spenser are trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue, they receive a telegram informing them Matt's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. Unfortunately, they can't sell it for the fortune they hoped as they discover it is falling down and almost worthless.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Lost Images: The Other Eye of Juan Pinzás (2009)
The filmmaker Juan Pinzás goes on a physical and also inner journey, in search of some lost images that he filmed in the 80s. The journey takes him from Madrid to Galicia and on the search for these images he meets with various characters who will help him in his undertaking, such as the actors Paul Naschy and Javier Gurruchaga whose personal worlds will be examined in the film. Finally in Vigo, his home city, of which he presents a remarkable portrait, he finds an old film in Super-8mm with the missing images. The catharsis is produced with the viewing of the old film which turns out to be a tribute to cinema and this means the end of the filmmaker's introspective journey.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
100 Years of Japanese Cinema (1995)
The story of the first century of Japanese cinema from the point of view of the controversial Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Ōshima.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
De Arm Van Jezus (2003)
Jakob Yzermans is an American salesman looking for his roots in Rotterdam. He thinks his father (Hendrik Yzermans) has left Holland with the money he took from his collegues. Jakob is trying to get the money together to repay the money. While doing so he encounters more and more problems.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Serbis (2008)
A struggling family owns a Filipino porn theater where prostitutes conduct their business.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Cinema Ticket (1995)
A determined young boy living in a small village strives to obtain enough money to purchase a ticket to the cinema.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Irishman: In Conversation (2019)
Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino in conversation about The Irishman.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCharlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life (1998)
A biographical documentary about the great British actor and director Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), from rags to riches, from the slums of London to glory.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
In Manhattan's Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves is shooting a screen test with various pairs of actors. It's a confrontation between a couple: he demands to know what's wrong, she challenges his sexual orientation. Cameras shoot the exchange, and another camera records Greaves and his crew. Sometimes we watch the crew discussing this scene, its language, and the process of making a movie. Is there such a thing as natural language? Are all things related to sex? The camera records distractions - a woman rides horseback past them; a garrulous homeless vet who sleeps in the park chats them up. What's the nature of making a movie?
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOlhar o Cinema Português: 1896-2006 (2007)
Synthesis of the first 110 years of the history of Portuguese cinema, made almost exclusively with archive material from the series of eight episodes History of Portuguese Cinema, produced by Pedro Efe in 1998, and combining excerpts from films with testimonies from some of the most prominent actors of the same story. It is attempted to relate it chronologically, and in spite of certain gaps, in an accessible, concise and didactic way.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Swedish Beauty (2000)
The arrival of a beautiful new stranger in town prompts two boys to spend their summer holidays enticing the young woman to act in a short-film. However their motivation is purely that of seeing her naked.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like La Page blanche?
The closest matches to La Page blanche are Broken Palace (2014), The Celluloid Closet (1996) and The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after La Page blanche?
Start with Broken Palace (2014), the closest match to La Page blanche.
What is the highest-rated movie like La Page blanche?
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), rated 7.3/10 by 316 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like La Page blanche?
The Irishman: In Conversation (2019) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like La Page blanche?
Yes: Belmondo, le magnifique (2017).
How are movies similar to La Page blanche chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside La Page blanche, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.