Movies like White Wedding (1989)
The best movies like White Wedding (1989) are L'ennui (1998), Regular Lovers (2005) and A Heart in Winter (1992). If White Wedding hooked you with its drama and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedA Heart in Winter (1992)7.3/10 from 238 votes
- NewestLover for a Day (2017)Released 2017
- In FrenchL'ennui (1998)Also in French
L'ennui (1998)
A philosophy teacher restless with the need to do something with his life meets a young woman suspected of driving an artist to his death. He finds the very simple Cecilia irritating but develops a sexual rapport with her. Obsessed with the need to own and tormented by her inability to respond to him, he becomes increasingly violent in a quest he can't name - a quest that slowly begins to undermine his certainties.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisRegular Lovers (2005)
1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend, Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself. They fall in love. A year passes; François continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and François do?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Heart in Winter (1992)
Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Disenchanted (1990)
A worldly French teen is determined to escape from her current situation for a better life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
An Affair of Love (1999)
A man and a woman meet to fulfill her sexual fantasy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYear of the Jellyfish (1984)
Chris, a sexy teenager who appears mostly bare-breasted on the French Riviera, has a crush on Romain, her mother's lover. In reaction to her inability to attract his attention, she experiments with other risque affairs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Summer Dress (1996)
It's summer. Sébastien loves the singer Sheila. Lucia loves boys. As for Frédéric, all he wants to do is work on his tan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Student (1988)
An ambitious teaching student's finals studies are interrupted by a passionate affair with a jazz musician.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Woman Next Door (1981)
Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Last Mistress (2007)
Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Nos Amours (1983)
Fifteen-year-old Suzanne seeks refuge from a disintegrating family in a series of impulsive, promiscuous affairs. Her fulsome sexuality further ratchets up the suppressed passions of her narcissistic brother, insecure mother and brooding, authoritarian father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn the Shadow of Women (2015)
Pierre and Manon are poor. They make documentaries with nothing and they live by doing odd jobs. Pierre meets a young intern, Elisabeth, and she becomes his mistress. But Pierre will not leave Manon for Elisabeth; he wants to keep both.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Mother and the Whore (1973)
Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous of Alexandre's fling with Veronika and as the trio continues their unsustainable affair, the emotional stakes get higher, leading to conflict and unhappiness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBeau Pere (1981)
Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLover for a Day (2017)
After a bad breakup, a college-aged Parisian moves into her father's flat only to discover that he is living with his new girlfriend - a young woman her age.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLaura (1979)
A blinded French sculptor completes a statue of a friend's daughter by using his sense of touch.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Nathalie... (2004)
Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hoping to learn more about his extramarital activities, Catherine heads to a strip club, where she hires call girl Nathalie to have a fling with Gerard. As the affair progresses, Nathalie gives Catherine regular status reports, and the relationship between the women evolves from business to personal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisWater Drops on Burning Rocks (2000)
In 1970s Germany, Léopold, a 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces 20-year-old Franz, who swiftly moves into his apartment. The dynamic between them intensifies with the sudden arrival of their ex-girlfriends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Evening Dress (2009)
Like many of her classmates, 12 year old tomboy Juliette has a crush on Mrs. Solenska, a teacher distinguished by stylish attire and an uninhibited, provocative classroom demeanor. Juliette's fascination turns into all-consuming obsession, forcing revelations from both the girl and her teacher.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Someone I Loved (2009)
One night, Pierre decides to reveal his painful secret to his daughter-in-law, who's just been abandoned by her husband. Pierre's secret is about his secret love to Mathilde, the woman he left to instead follow an easier path in life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChloé (1996)
After a violent dispute with her mother, sixteen-years old Chloé ends up in the streets with nowhere to go. Then she finds Jean-Michel, a charming young man who will lead her to prostitution.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Loulou (1980)
A bored wife leaves her husband for an unemployed, petty criminal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNelly and Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly begins dating his good-looking young publisher.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Brutal Game (1983)
A strict father imposes impossible guidelines on his disabled daughter which reflect his secret and tortured life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Girl on the Bridge (1999)
It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him. They travel along the northern bank of the Mediterranean to perform.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThis Special Friendship (1964)
A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the fourteen-year-old upperclassman who is the object of his desire, all set within the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit-run school.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDouble Lover (2017)
Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSecret Things (2002)
Two young women find themselves struggling to survive in Paris, street-wise Nathalie, a stripper, and naïve Sandrine, a barmaid. Together, they discover that sex can be used to their advantage, and pleasure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisPola X (1999)
A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisSitcom (1998)
The adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother's discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister's suicide attempt and sadomasochist tendencies, and the intrusion of a very free-spirited maid and her husband. And it all started with the arrival in the family of an innocent looking rat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like White Wedding?
The closest matches to White Wedding are L'ennui (1998), Regular Lovers (2005) and A Heart in Winter (1992). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after White Wedding?
People who watched White Wedding most often go on to L'ennui (1998), Regular Lovers (2005) and A Heart in Winter (1992).
What is the highest-rated movie like White Wedding?
A Heart in Winter (1992), rated 7.3/10 by 238 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like White Wedding?
Lover for a Day (2017) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like White Wedding?
Yes: L'ennui (1998), Regular Lovers (2005) and A Heart in Winter (1992).
How are movies similar to White Wedding chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside White Wedding, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.