Movies like The Gilded Cage (2013)
The best movies like The Gilded Cage (2013) are Family for Rent (2015), Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001) and Delicacy (2011). If The Gilded Cage hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMon Oncle (1958)7.4/10 from 643 votes
- NewestJust Retired (2019)Released 2019
- In FrenchFamily for Rent (2015)Also in French
Family for Rent (2015)
Forty-year-old Paul-André is a timid, rather introverted man. Rich but alone, he is deeply bored and ends up concluding that what he needs is a family. Violette, a forty-year-old full of energy, is threatened with eviction and is afraid she'll lose custody of her two children. Paul-André then proposes a totally above the board contract to rent the family in exchange for him paying off Violette's debts. For better and for worse..
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisVa Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001)
After finding love and success in Italy, French actress Camille returns to Paris, the city she fled three years ago. She secretly dreads confronting her ex-boyfriend Pierre. Her new lover Ugo also has a secret, as he’s meeting with the intriguing Dominique while on his quest for an unpublished manuscript.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Delicacy (2011)
A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHeartbreaker (2010)
Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only problem is that they only have one week to do so.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Spanish Apartment (2002)
A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the international language of love and friendship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJosephine (2013)
Josephine doesn't like her job and keeps on having relationships without a future. Her sister and parents keep pushing her to find a good husband. To shut them up, she creates a handsome Brazilian millionaire but her little white lie has a flip side - she loses everything to find the love of her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Sense of Wonder (2015)
Louise, a widow with two children, almost crushes a stranger with her car. She takes care of him, even if he's not really wounded. It turns out that he has mental disorders and that they can help each other much more than they thought.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeautiful Lies (2010)
A hairdresser forwards a passionate love letter to her widowed mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisModern Love (2008)
Several couples break up and get back together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Divorce French Style (2014)
Ariane, a young French violinist, accepts the marriage proposal of Christen, an irresistible conductor. Only problem: she's a little bit ... married! Separated for two years with Nino, an Italian teacher with a strong character, she manages to convince him to follow her to Paris to divorce in 8 days flat. But their trip in the city of love looks much more eventful than expected...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMission Pays Basque (2017)
Sibylle, a young Parisian with long teeth, intends to shine in her new job by buying a hardware store in the Basque Country to set up a supermarket. She imagines that she has "rolled" the old owner but the latter is under curatorship. Sibylle must therefore deal with Ramon, the nephew, to recover his money and sign as soon as possible. Otherwise, the ejection seat is assured. She will soon realize that the Basques do not intend to let themselves be made by a Parisian, however pretty she is.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisIn Bed with Victoria (2016)
Victoria is a thirty-something divorced lawyer who's struggling to raise her two daughters. She is canny and cynical but on the verge of an emotional breakdown. At a friend's wedding she reconnects with Vincent, an old friend, and Sam, an old client. Her life is about to take a new turn.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisRussian Dolls (2005)
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJust Retired (2019)
Marilou and Philippe prepare for their future retirement in Portugal. But their daughter separates and a whole procession of solicitations falls on them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisPriceless (2006)
A beautiful young gold-digger mistakes a lowly hotel clerk as a rich and therefore worthwhile catch.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPopulaire (2012)
An insurance agent and his new secretary become locked in the grip of romance and competition as they train together for a speed-typing contest.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Women on the 6th Floor (2011)
Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of two arrogant teenage boys, currently in a boarding school. The affluent man lives a steady yet boring life. At least until, due to fortuitous circumstances, Maria, the charming new maid at the service of Jean-Louis' family, makes him discover the servants' quarter on the sixth floor of the luxury building he owns and lives in. There live a crowd of lively Spanish maids who will help Jean-Louis to open to a new civilization and a new approach of life. In their company - and more precisely in the company of beautiful Maria - Jean-Louis will gradually become another man, a better man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlind Date (2015)
He invents puzzles. He’s committed body and soul to his work and needs silence to be able to concentrate. She is an accomplished pianist and can’t live without music. She must prepare for a competition that could change her life. They are going to be forced to coexist without seeing each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Climb (2017)
A true story of Samy, native of La Courneuve, who is out of love for Nadia, decides to climb Mount Everest.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMostly Martha (2001)
Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has no time for anything - or anyone - else. But Martha's solitary life is shaken when a fateful accident brings her sister's eight-year-old daughter, Lina, to her doorstep.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSouvenir (2016)
A former European song contest singer, fading away in a pâté factory, falls in love with a young, aspiring boxer. Together, they decide she should attempt a comeback.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Planet Single 3 (2019)
Tomek and Ania finally decide to get married. The wedding, according to the wishes of Ania, will take place at the family members of Tomek with whom he has had no contact for years. It turns out that his brothers and his mother are like an Italian family where every conversation threatens to lead to an explosion and where a loving relationship and a quarrel are close together. Also the mother of Ania does not make a good impression on the mother of Tomek when she appears at the wedding with a much younger partner. The unexpected arrival of Tomek's father, whom he has not seen for years, is the drop that makes the bucket overflow .
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSex, Love & Therapy (2014)
Lambert, a recovering sex addict, tries to redeem himself by becoming a marriage counsellor. He stays abstinent for several months, but his alluring assistant's unbridled sexuality tests his resolve.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisPlan de table (2012)
A brief but intense hug will have the effect of throwing a meticulously planned wedding into chaos. Is chance about to give fate a helping hand?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisPaulette (2012)
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWelcome to the Sticks (2008)
Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMon Oncle (1958)
Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies 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 · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 · both comedy
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 · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Gilded Cage?
The closest matches to The Gilded Cage are Family for Rent (2015), Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001) and Delicacy (2011). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Gilded Cage?
People who watched The Gilded Cage most often go on to Family for Rent (2015), Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001) and Delicacy (2011).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Gilded Cage?
Mon Oncle (1958), rated 7.4/10 by 643 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Gilded Cage?
Just Retired (2019) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like The Gilded Cage?
Yes: Family for Rent (2015), Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001) and Delicacy (2011).
How are movies similar to The Gilded Cage chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Gilded Cage, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.