Movies like Nature humaine
The best movies like Nature humaine are Anaïs in Love (2021), A Man of His Time (2026) and La Ronde (1950). If Nature humaine hooked you with its drama and history, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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Quick picks
- Highest ratedWaiting for Bojangles (2021)7.3/10 from 372 votes
- NewestA Man of His Time (2026)Released 2026
- In FrenchAnaïs in Love (2021)Also in French
Anaïs in Love (2021)
A young woman struggling to stay on top of everything in her life meets a married publisher and begins an affair with him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Man of His Time (2026)
September 1940. Henri Marre arrives alone in Vichy as the authoritarian regime settles in. Broke, estranged from his family, and carrying copies of his self-published manifesto Notre Salut (Our Salvation), the 49-year-old is determined to secure what he believes is his rightful place in the new administration. In his writing, Henri sets out his patriotic convictions and his engineer’s methodology: efficiency above all. Claiming he wants to help save France after defeat, he does whatever is required to remain useful, serving the machinery of the new order with increasing skill. But he may be pursuing something more urgent: escape from his own ruin
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both history & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLa Ronde (1950)
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Good House (2021)
When wry New England realtor Hildy Good rekindles a romance with her old high-school flame, Frank Getchell, it ignites long-buried emotions and family secrets that propel Hildy toward a reckoning with the one person she's been avoiding for decades: herself. Based on the best-selling novel by Ann Leary.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisScarlet (2023)
A French widower and WWI veteran returns home after the war to raise his newborn daughter.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & history
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRendezvous in Paris (1995)
Three stories of love and coincidence around the theme of dates in Paris.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Well-Digger's Daughter (1940)
A rural maiden's two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisToo Beautiful for You (1989)
A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before his wife finds this particular entanglement of her husband's very difficult to accept.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisXX/XY (2002)
Three friends begin a dangerous three-way relationship that spirals out of control, leading to dire consequences that haunt them ten years later.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisL.A. Without a Map (1999)
An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a waitress at a Japanese restaurant, she tells everyone about the handsome "writer" she met on her trip. Unfortunately, he decides to follow her back to Hollywood, setting up the expected light romantic comedy with asides as the newcomer gains experience about the goings on in Hollywood.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)
Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire is not a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph. Then she tries the neighbour, former officer Mauger. This seems to work. But soon the son of the Lanlaires comes back. He is young, attractive and does not share his mother's antirepublican opinions. So Celestine's beauty attracts Captain Mauger, young Georges Lanlaire, and Joseph. Three men, from three different social classes, with three different conceptions of life. Will Celestine be able to convince Georges of her sincerity?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWaiting for Bojangles (2021)
A boy and his eccentric parents leave their home in Paris for a country house in Spain. As the mother descends deeper into her own mind, it's up to the boy and his father to keep her safe and happy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEnemies, a Love Story (1989)
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOur Story (1984)
Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life. An attractive young woman, Donatienne, suddenly enters the compartment and offers to make love to him. Robert accepts but, when the woman leaves the train afterwards, he decides to follow her...
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHow to Please a Woman (2022)
When her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control, a mature woman must embrace her own sexuality, if she is to make a new life for herself.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA California Christmas: City Lights (2021)
Follows Callie and Joseph one year after they fell in love, now running a dairy farm and winery, but their romance is threatened when business and family obligations call Joseph back to the city.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Best Years of a Life (2019)
They knew each other long ago: a man and a woman whose dazzling and unexpected romance captured in the now-iconic film revolutionized our understanding of love. Today, the former race car driver seems lost in the pathways of his memory. In order to help him, his son seeks out the woman his father wasn’t able to cherish but whom he constantly revisits in his thoughts and dreams. Anne reunites with Jean-Louis and their story picks up where they left it…
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChéri (2009)
The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLe Plaisir (1952)
Three stories about pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Madame Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falls in love with his model - pleasure and death.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMadame (2017)
Anne and Bob, a well-to-do American couple, have just moved to a beautiful manor house in romantic Paris. To impress their sophisticated friends, they decide to host a lavish dinner party, but must disguise their maid as a noblewoman to even out the number of guests. When the maid runs off with a wealthy guest, Anne must chase her around Paris to thwart the joyous and unexpected love affair.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Nature humaine?
The closest matches to Nature humaine are Anaïs in Love (2021), A Man of His Time (2026) and La Ronde (1950). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Nature humaine?
Start with Anaïs in Love (2021), the closest match to Nature humaine.
What is the highest-rated movie like Nature humaine?
Waiting for Bojangles (2021), rated 7.3/10 by 372 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Nature humaine?
A Man of His Time (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Nature humaine?
Yes: Anaïs in Love (2021), A Man of His Time (2026) and La Ronde (1950).
How are movies similar to Nature humaine chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Nature humaine, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.