Movies like Godard Mon Amour (2017)
The best movies like Godard Mon Amour (2017) are The Girl on the Bridge (1999), Nouvelle Vague (2025) and A Woman Is a Woman (1961). If Godard Mon Amour 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 ratedDay for Night (1973)7.8/10 from 687 votes
- NewestNouvelle Vague (2025)Released 2025
- In FrenchThe Girl on the Bridge (1999)Also in French
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 & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNouvelle Vague (2025)
After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, young Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He gets Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, creating a treatment with Truffaut about a gangster couple.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLet the Sunshine In (2017)
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMy King (2015)
Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look back on a turbulent relationship that she experienced with Georgio.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies 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 Her new lover Ugo also has a secret, as he’s meeting with the intriguing Dominique while on his quest for an unpublished manuscript.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 drama & comedy
La Belle Époque (2019)
Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love through a company that allows customers to return to the time period of their choosing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKung-Fu Master! (1988)
A lonely 40-year old woman finds herself shattering taboos by falling in love with the 14-year old Julien – but is it romance, or a desperate attempt to turn back time in the face of middle age?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996)
Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other lovers?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGodard's Passion (1982)
While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like this2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTwo Friends (2015)
Mona, a prisoner on work release, meets Clément, a shy actor. Desperate to impress Mona, Clément recruits his extroverted friend, Abel, to help. When Mona becomes more interested in Abel, it sets off a conflict between the two friends. Meanwhile, Mona attempts to keep her past hidden.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisOther People's Children (2022)
Rachel loves her life, her students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she grows close to his 4-year-old daughter, Leila. She tucks her in, looks after her, and loves her like a mother... which she isn’t. Not yet. Rachel is 40. The desire for a family of her own is growing stronger, and the clock is ticking. Is it too late?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSomething in the Air (2012)
During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. While torn between his solidarity to his friends and his personal ambitions he falls in love with Christine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisParis, 13th District (2021)
Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy – They're friends, sometimes lovers and often both.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Self-Made Hero (1996)
Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDay for Night (1973)
A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFriday Night (2002)
The night before she is to move in with her boyfriend, a young Parisian woman picks up a male hitchhiker, leading to a highly charged and impossibly erotic detour.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Guy (2018)
Gauthier, a young journalist, learns from his mother that he is the illegitimate son of Guy Jamet, a popular French singer whose heyday stretched unevenly from the 1960’s to the nineties. Guy is currently promoting a new album of old material and heads on tour. Armed with a camera, Gauthier decides to follow Guy, recording his daily routine and his concerts to create a documentary portrait.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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 drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLittle Tickles (2018)
Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMektoub, My Love: Intermezzo (2019)
Summer is coming to an end, Amin and his friends meet Marie, a young parisian student.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
La Lectrice (1988)
A young woman passionate about reading immerses herself in the adventures of a fictional character who makes reading her profession. As she explores different neighborhoods and wintertime Provence, her imagination blends with reality, revealing the mysteries behind each word.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHunting & Gathering (2007)
When Camille falls ill, she is forced to live with Philibert and Franck.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSorry Angel (2018)
At once an intimate chronicle of a romance and a sprawling portrait of life in early 1990s France following the intertwining journeys of Jacques, a worldly Parisian writer, and Arthur, a curious, carefree and much-younger university student who is just beginning to live. Brought together by chance, the two men find themselves navigating a casual fling that gradually deepens into a tender, transformative bond.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Afternoons with Margueritte (2010)
An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGoodbye First Love (2011)
A 15-year-old discovers the joys and heartaches of first love with an older teen, but in the ensuing years, cannot seem to move past their breakup.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Two of Us (1967)
A story of the caring friendship formed between a crusty, old anti-Semite and an eight-year-old Jewish boy who goes to live with him during World War II.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Faithful Man (2018)
Marianne leaves Abel for Paul, his best friend and the father of her unborn child. Eight years later, Paul dies and Marianne returns to Abel. However, things have changed for the both of them and feelings of jealousy surround their new relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Godard Mon Amour?
The closest matches to Godard Mon Amour are The Girl on the Bridge (1999), Nouvelle Vague (2025) and A Woman Is a Woman (1961). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Godard Mon Amour?
People who watched Godard Mon Amour most often go on to The Girl on the Bridge (1999), Nouvelle Vague (2025) and A Woman Is a Woman (1961).
What is the highest-rated movie like Godard Mon Amour?
Day for Night (1973), rated 7.8/10 by 687 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Godard Mon Amour?
Nouvelle Vague (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Godard Mon Amour?
Yes: The Girl on the Bridge (1999), Nouvelle Vague (2025) and A Woman Is a Woman (1961).
How are movies similar to Godard Mon Amour chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Godard Mon Amour, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.