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Movies like The Volcano (2013)

The best movies like The Volcano (2013) are God Save the Tuches (2025), The Tuche Family: The American Dream (2016) and On aurait dû aller en Grèce (2024). If The Volcano hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. God Save the Tuches (2025)

    When Jeff and Cathy’s grandson Jiji is selected for a training camp with Arsenal, it’s a dream opportunity for the whole family to head over to England and meet the royal family.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

  2. The Tuche Family: The American Dream (2016)

    Les Tuche, a modest french family, change his life after winning a super lottery. Thanks to the money of his parents, the son, Donald (aka "coin-coin") goes to Los Angeles to improve his english. On the L.A. University, he meets Jennifer, daughter of a famous American financier.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

  3. On aurait dû aller en Grèce (2024)

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

  4. Open Season 2 (2025)

    Two years after moving to the French countryside and seeing hunting banned, Adelaide and Simon discover that living close to nature can be rewarding, peaceful... and unbelievably boring. Desperate to make new friends, they're overjoyed when Bernard's witty, wealthy son Stan and his smart, aristocratic wife Bennie move to town—with kids the same age as theirs. But what seems like a gift from heaven turns out to be a Trojan horse: Stan and Bennie are die-hard coursers, determined to hunt on horseback with their hounds wherever they please. Chaos ensues. The clash becomes a full-blown war as Stan buys up land, bribes the locals, and plans to turn the forest into a playground for the ultra-rich. With help from Bernard and his old hunting buddies, can Addie and Simon rally the villagers and spark a rural revolt to save their peaceful corner of the world?

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

  5. Cocorico (2024)

    The Bouvier-Sauvages, a large aristocratic family, meet the much more modest Martin family when their children's wedding is announced. For the occasion, the future bride and groom offer their parents DNA tests, which will reveal their true origins. The results are totally unexpected and will make the effect of a bomb.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

  6. Paris or Perish (2013)

    Maya is living the ultimate fashionistas dream: she is working as a stylist for one of the French trend setters, in the capital of haute-couture: Paris. One of the IT girls of fashion, shes following her dreams until one night, when her life takes a sudden turn: shes being deported back to Morocco, after being stopped for over speeding, because her Visa expired some time ago. So in no more than 24 hours, shes deported back to her family and original country. The strong cultural shock and the judgmental differences are pushing the woman to obtain back her place in the city of dreams and her dreams, no matter the costs. But that doesn't mean she will have to return alone, as she finds other things also among her way back to the city.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

  7. At Home with the Rozes (2003)

    Two ex-convicts, MG and Gilbert find refuge in a charming middle-class house whose couple is about to celebrate its 20-year old marriage. Our duo has no other solution than to take this entire brood in hostage. But, contrary to all expectations, they are warmly greeted by the occupants who don't think twice before helping them, they are even ready to put their guests off, even to kill them if necessary...

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

  8. The Magic Tuche (2018)

    After a groundbreaking presidential election, Jeff Tuche becomes the new President of France and moves in the Elysee with his family to govern the country.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

  9. Serial (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: Fans watch both · both comedy

  10. A Difficult Year (2023)

    Compulsive spenders Albert and Bruno are in debt up to their necks. While seeking help from community workers to get their lives back on track, they run into a group of young green activists. Lured by the free beer and snacks rather than by the ideals of eco-activists, Albert and Bruno find themselves joining the movement without much conviction.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

  11. The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)

    A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

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  12. Rumba Therapy (2022)

    Tony is a macho middle-aged school bus driver in the provinces with no friends or relations. A sudden heart attack throws him into a tailspin. Tony's convinced he's going to die. When his cardiologist warns him : We all need others. Alone, we're nothing. Tony decides to reconnect with the daughter he abandoned twenty years earlier, when she was just a baby. Still a coward, he's unable to screw up the courage to actually confront her directly. So he decides to sign up for a dance class she's teaching in Paris. Incognito, of course. To get to know her gradually… in a desperate attempt to give some meaning to his empty life. In the process, he has more than a few dance steps to learn!

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

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  13. Vive la France (2013)

    Muzafar and Feruz are two easy going shepherds from Taboulistan, a tiny country in Asia that is unknown to the rest of the world. To alert the world to his country’s existence, the son of Taboulistan’s president decides to instigate a program of publicity terrorism. To that end, he recruits our two naive shepherds, their mission: to destroy the Eiffel Tower! But the France that Muzafar and Feruz discover is far from what they had expected...

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

  14. Le Chef (2012)

    A veteran chef faces off against his restaurant group's new CEO, who wants to the establishment to lose a star from its rating in order to bring in a younger chef who specializes in molecular gastronomy.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

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  15. Kids Are Back (2021)

    Catherine and Yann, happily married for many years, should have spent the year travelling abroad. But since he sold his business, Yann has been too busy with his bonsai trees and keeps postponing the big trip. Things go from bad to worse when their 27-year-old broke daughter and her boyfriend lose their apartment and come knocking on the door to stay. With Yann’s mid-life crisis spinning out of control, their couch surfing daughter and partner getting increasingly invasive and their stay becoming indefinite, Catherine will try everything to kick them out of the parental home and get her life back on track!

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

  16. Chef (2014)

    When Chef Carl Casper suddenly quits his job at a prominent Los Angeles restaurant after refusing to compromise his creative integrity for its controlling owner, he is left to figure out what's next. Finding himself in Miami, he teams up with his ex-wife, his friend and his son to launch a food truck. Taking to the road, Chef Carl goes back to his roots to reignite his passion for the kitchen -- and zest for life and love.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

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  17. Papi Sitter (2020)

    Franck and Karine are offered a job on a cruise ship they can’t refuse. The only problem: their daughter Camille has to study for her finals but has other ideas of fun in mind instead… No problem! To straighten his daughter out and set her to work, Franck calls on his father André, a retired captain from the national police, hopelessly uptight and rigid. With military discipline, Camille’s finals will be a success! But this is the moment when the second grandfather Teddy, an eccentric and wild former nightclub manager and the total opposite of the strict André, chooses to return after many years abroad... Living together promises to be complicated…

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

  18. Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2022)

    Seven men, all city-dwellers aged between 17 and 70, with nothing in common apart from the fact that they are all on the verge of a nervous breakdown, meet up at a lonely sta- tion for an unusual course in the wild that is supposed to get them back on their feet. Each step in this boot camp, designed by an eccentric and feisty female coach, aims to reveal them to themselves. The task seems to be a tough one, especially as nothing goes as planned between these men.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

  19. Serial (Bad) Weddings (2014)

    A catholic French couple sees their life upside down when their four daughters get married to men of different religion and origins.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

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  20. Welcome Aboard (2011)

    Isabelle, HR of a large cruise company, made the mistake of choosing her boss as a lover. Before embarking on the maiden voyage of the new flagship of the fleet, though, he decided to disembark from their relationship! Some women take their revenge by poison, firearm, or slander. Isabelle chooses Remy a flamboyant, unemployed ne'er-do-well who flunked out in life on land, but after all is said and done, might have better luck at sea... She recruits him as leader of her plot and on this Palace of the Seas, Remy will first prove to be the worst nightmare of the CEO and Richard, the Cruise Director...then, little by little, he will change his life and that of all those who cross his path...

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

  21. What We Did on Our Holiday (2014)

    Doug and Abi and their three children travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug's father Gordie's birthday party. It's soon clear that when it comes to keeping a secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are their biggest liability...

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

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  22. With Open Arms (2017)

    Jean-Étienne Fougerole is an intellectual bohemian who released his new novel "In Open Arms" and calling the wealthiest people to welcome home the families in need. While he promotes his book during a televised debate, his opponent criticized him for not applying what he himself advocates. While stuck, Jean-Étienne Fougerole accepts the challenge, for fear of being discredited. The same evening, a family of Roma rings the door of his Marnes-la-Coquette villa and the writer feels obliged to house them.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

  23. Happiness Is in the Field (1995)

    Francis, the boss of a small plumbing supply company, is harassed by tax collectors, striking employees, and an impossible wife and daughter. His only joy is sharing lunch with his friend Gerard. Then a TV show called "where are you?" shows a woman from Gers who is searching for her husband who disappeared 28 years ago. The lost husband looks like an identical twin of Francis...

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

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  24. Camping (2006)

    Plastic surgeon Michel Saint-Josse is on his way to Spain where he hopes to spend a stress-free holiday in a luxury hotel with his teenage daughter Vanessa. When his car breaks down near a camping, Michel accepts the offer of help from an extrovert gigolo camper named Patrick Chirac. Whilst their car is being repaired, Michel and Vanessa agree to stay in Patrick’s well proportioned tent, not knowing that, thanks to a series of mishaps, it will be their home for several days...

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

  25. Our Happy Holiday (2018)

    Marion and Ben, thirty years old, meet on Tinder. That's about all they have in common; but the opposites attract each other, and they decide in the early morning of their meeting to go on vacation together despite the advice of their entourage. They will finally leave - to Bulgaria, halfway to their dream destinations: Beirut for Marion, Biarritz for Ben. Without a precise plan and, as they will soon discover, with very different conceptions of what a dream holiday should be.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

  26. The Nan Movie (2022)

    Catherine Tate's iconic character Nan hits the big screen as she goes on a wild road trip from London to Ireland with her grandson Jamie to make amends with her estranged sister Nell. Militant vegan arsonists, raucous rugby teams, all night raves and crazed cops on motorbikes all make for a proper day out. An origin story that mixes Nan's present with her past where we finally find out what's made her the cantankerous old bastard she is today.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

  27. All Hands on Deck! (2021)

    An unlikely oddball trio bond during an impromptu trip to the French countryside on a foolhardy romantic mission.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

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  28. Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish) (2020)

    The Banks Family reunites 25 years later for a very special event to benefit World Central Kitchen.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

  29. The Odd Couple II (1998)

    Brucey, the son of Oscar, calls his father to invite him to his wedding to Felix's daughter next Sunday in California. Oscar and Felix meet again at Los Angeles International Airport and rent a car in order to go to San Malina for the wedding.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

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  30. Tommy Boy (1995)

    To save the family business, two ne’er-do-well traveling salesmen hit the road with disastrously funny consequences.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like The Volcano?

The closest matches to The Volcano are God Save the Tuches (2025), The Tuche Family: The American Dream (2016) and On aurait dû aller en Grèce (2024). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after The Volcano?

People who watched The Volcano most often go on to God Save the Tuches (2025), The Tuche Family: The American Dream (2016) and On aurait dû aller en Grèce (2024).

What is the highest-rated movie like The Volcano?

The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), rated 7.3/10 by 1,600 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like The Volcano?

Open Season 2 (2025) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there French movies like The Volcano?

Yes: God Save the Tuches (2025), The Tuche Family: The American Dream (2016) and On aurait dû aller en Grèce (2024).

How are movies similar to The Volcano chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Volcano, 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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