Movies like C'est Madame la France que tu préfères (1980)
The best movies like C'est Madame la France que tu préfères (1980) are The Gilded Cage (2013), Summer Hours (2008) and Peppermint Soda (1977). If C'est Madame la France que tu préfères hooked you, these 27 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
C'est Madame la France que tu préfères
Quick picks
- Highest ratedTo All the Boys: Always and Forever (2021)7.5/10 from 2,107 votes
- NewestChicks (2026)Released 2026
- In FrenchThe Gilded Cage (2013)Also in French
The Gilded Cage (2013)
In the beautiful area of Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the ground floor of a Haussmann building, in their dear little lodge.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSummer Hours (2008)
After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPeppermint Soda (1977)
In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer at the beach with their father. School starts. A turbulent year awaits them both.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSisters (2015)
Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents sell their family home.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like this1981 (2009)
Filmmaker Ricardo Trogi recalls the events surrounding his family moving to a new neighborhood when he was 11 years old.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour (2026)
At 55, Anne is finally enjoying her freedom after her children leave home. But everything changes when her 23-year-old daughter, Louise, moves back in with her after a professional and romantic failure. And to make matters worse, her son, Théo, announces that she's going to be a grandmother! Anne realizes that life never goes as planned and that, at any age, we are still learning to grow up.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTo All the Boys: Always and Forever (2021)
Senior year of high school takes center stage as Lara Jean returns from a family trip to Korea and considers her college plans — with and without Peter.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJust an Illusion (2026)
In 1985 suburban Paris, 12-year-old Vincent lives with his distant older brother and quarrelling parents. Amid laughter and unease, he navigates friendship and first love, while beginning to confront the adult world.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPassport to Paris (1999)
Sent to Paris to visit their grandfather, the twins fall in love with France, not to mention two French boys.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFamily Resemblances (1996)
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBack to Burgundy (2017)
Jean left his hometown ten years ago. When his father falls ill, he comes back and reunites with his sister Juliette and his brother Jérémie. As seasons go by around their vineyard, they'll have to trust each other again.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Man in the Moon (1991)
Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster threatens to throw their bond off balance. Dani and Court meet first and have a flirtatious rapport -- but when he meets Maureen, he falls hard and they begin a passionate affair. The new couple try to keep their love hidden from Dani, but she soon learns the truth, disavowing her sister. But a heartbreaking accident later reunites the girls.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBorn in East L.A. (1987)
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without speaking a word of Spanish!
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisWe Are Family (2016)
Thirteen-year-old Bastien is the center of a reconstructed family: six half-brothers and sisters, eight "parents," and as many houses. His tasks within the family are far more complex than what he has to do at school. But enough's enough: the children decide to wage a revolution and turn the rules upside down. All together, they squat a large apartment and now it'll be up to the parents to come to them!
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Got Life! (2017)
Aurore has separated, just lost her job, and learns that she is going to be a grandmother.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSerial (Bad) Weddings 2 (2019)
Claude and Marie Verneuil face a new crisis. The four spouses of their daughters, David, Rachid, Chao and Charles decided to leave France for various reasons. Here they are imagining their lives elsewhere.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisParisienne (2016)
18-year-old Lina arrives in Paris for her studies. She comes to look for what she has never found in Lebanon, her country of origin: a certain form of freedom. The survival instinct as the only baggage, she sails from one Paris to another to the rhythm of her romantic encounters.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Little Sister (2025)
When Fatima leaves her close-knit suburban family to study philosophy in Paris, she finds herself caught between her religious upbringing and the freedom of student life in the city.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNeuilly Yo Mama! (2009)
Samy moves from the underdeveloped crime-ridden French suburb to the riches of Neuilly.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisComme t'y es belle ! (2006)
Isa, Alice, Léa and Nina, linked by their Sephardic families as much as by their friendship, share their lives between love affairs, a beauty institute under fiscal control, children to raise, an undocumented Moroccan nanny to marry, repeated diets, family and religious holidays to honor, but before being beautiful, their biggest challenge is to be themselves.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChicks (2026)
Chicks follows a group of teenage girls as they navigate the complexities of friendship, identity and growing up in contemporary London. Blending moments of humour, vulnerability and emotional honesty, the film explores the pressures placed on young women and the search for authenticity within a world of expectations. A heartfelt coming-of-age story about connection, change and finding your own voice.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
XING LONG (2025)
After many years, the two siblings Leo and Sara reunite for a final farewell dinner at the old family restaurant. One last chance to reflect on past memories before the restaurant is sold and closed for good.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Donut King (2020)
Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy builds a multi-million dollar empire by baking America's favourite pastry: the doughnut.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
My Swiss Army (2024)
Saad, Thruben and Andrija are Swiss citizens and therefore liable for military service. The three officers proudly train to defend the country. But would they also go to war against their countries of origin?
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Where the Leaves Fall (2020)
Giacomo, a second-generation Italian-Chinese youngman, travels to Wencheng County to bring his late father’s ashes back to his hometown. There he stays at his grandfather’s house. The old man becomes Giacomo’s guide through the forgotten paths of his native culture, which now looks so distant from the daily life of a European twenty-something.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Day by Day (TBA)
In Milan, a young Chinese woman faces an unexpected pregnancy alone. Unable to confide in either her partner or her family, she wanders through the city's everyday spaces in search of an answer that no one else can give her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Yoko Bono - The Art of Being Swedish-Finnish (2018)
Because of the poor employment situation in Finland, many families and single people decided to move to Sweden to seek employment in the 1960s and 70s. The move was considered temporary and it affected people’s ways of making themselves at home in the new country; they did not even try to adapt or learn the language of the country. At that time, the nicknames “Finnjävel” and “Hurri” were well-known to Swedish-Finnish youngsters: In Sweden, they were regarded as Finns; and the other way around. As neither nation’s citizens approved them as their own, the Sweden Finns had to create their own identity. But what kind of lives do these immigrants’ children and grandchildren live today? Jonas Karén was born in a Finnish family in Husby’s suburb 1980.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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What are the best movies like C'est Madame la France que tu préfères?
The closest matches to C'est Madame la France que tu préfères are The Gilded Cage (2013), Summer Hours (2008) and Peppermint Soda (1977). Below are 24 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after C'est Madame la France que tu préfères?
Start with The Gilded Cage (2013), the closest match to C'est Madame la France que tu préfères.
What is the highest-rated movie like C'est Madame la France que tu préfères?
To All the Boys: Always and Forever (2021), rated 7.5/10 by 2,107 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like C'est Madame la France que tu préfères?
Chicks (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like C'est Madame la France que tu préfères?
Yes: The Gilded Cage (2013), Summer Hours (2008) and Peppermint Soda (1977).
How are movies similar to C'est Madame la France que tu préfères chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside C'est Madame la France que tu préfères, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.