Movies like Claire's Camera (2018)
The best movies like Claire's Camera (2018) are The Summer with Carmen (2023), In Another Country (2012) and On the Beach at Night Alone (2017). If Claire's Camera hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedSorry Angel (2018)6.9/10 from 242 votes
- NewestPossible Love (2026)Released 2026
- In FrenchThings to Come (2016)Also in French
The Summer with Carmen (2023)
While having a day-long swim at Athens’ queer beach, best friends Demosthenes and Nikitas recall the events of a recent summer in the prospect of turning them into a screenplay for Nikitas’ feature debut.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
In Another Country (2012)
A young woman and her mother run away to the seaside town of Mohang to escape their mounting debt. The young woman begins writing a script for a short film in order to calm her nerves: There are three women named Anne, and each woman consecutively visits the seaside town of Mohang. A young woman tends to the small hotel by the Mohang foreshore owned by her parents. A certain lifeguard can be seen restlessly wandering up and down the beach that lies nearby. Each Anne stays at this small hotel, receives some assistance from the owner's daughter, and ventures onto the beach where they meet the lifeguard.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOn the Beach at Night Alone (2017)
In a foreign city, an actress wanders through a seaside town, reflecting on her relationship with a married man. How important is love in one’s life? Younghee wants to find out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBergman Island (2021)
An English-German filmmaking couple retreat to Fårö for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Ingmar Bergman. As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the Island's wild landscape.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThings to Come (2016)
Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie’s husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMektoub, My Love: Canto Uno (2018)
Amin, an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns home for the summer, in Sète, South of France. It is a time of reconnecting with his family and his childhood friends. Together with his cousin Tony and his best friend Ophélie, he spends his time between the Tunisian restaurant run by his parents, the local bars and the beaches frequented by girls on holiday.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAva (2017)
Ava, 13, is spending the summer on the Atlantic coast when she learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected. Her mother decides to act as if everything were normal so as to spend their best summer ever. Ava confronts the problem in her own way. She steals a big black dog that belongs to a young man on the run...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSlack Bay (2016)
Summer, 1910. Inspectors Machin and Malfoy investigate the mysterious disappearances of several tourists on the beautiful beaches of Slack Bay, where a strange community of fishermen lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Son of Joseph (2016)
A young man who lives with his mother and has never known his father, heads off to look for him. He finds a cynical and Machiavellian man who works as a publisher in Paris. After he attempts to kill him, he finds filial love thanks to his uncle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Oki's Movie (2010)
Oki, a film student, gets involved in two relationships as she navigates the advances of a fellow student and grapples with her feelings for her much older professor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Day He Arrives (2011)
A film director who no longer makes films arrives in Seoul to meet a close friend. When the friend doesn't show up, he wanders the city aimlessly for three days, grabbing drinks and meeting women, with each day playing out like a version of the last.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYourself and Yours (2016)
While a South Korean man wanders the city in search of the woman he just broke up with, she successively meets and flirts with two men who claim to have met her before.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Room Next Door (2024)
Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIncoherence (2025)
Over three episodes, three respectable middle-aged men find themselves behaving badly. A teacher hides his pornographic magazine from a female student. A jogger steals milk and blames it on a newspaper delivery boy. A drunk man desperately searches for a public toilet late at night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Year 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
SnoozefestMovies like thisMekong Hotel (2012)
Shifting between fact and fiction in a hotel situated along the Mekong River, a filmmaker rehearses a movie expressing the bonds between a vampire-like mother and daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Palace (2023)
A comedy set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them intersect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisDaphne (2017)
Daphne is a young woman negotiating the tricky business of modern life. Caught in the daily rush of her restaurant job and a nightlife kaleidoscope of new faces, she is witty, funny, the life of the party. Too busy to realise that deep down she is not happy. When she saves the life of a shopkeeper stabbed in a failed robbery, the impenetrable armour she wears to protect herself begins to crack, and Daphne is forced to confront the inevitability of a much-needed change in her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisPossible Love (2026)
Working-class An Mi Ok and Choi Ho Seok, who have been together since middle school and are the parents of a taciturn 10-year-old, are still reckoning with the fallout from Ho Seok’s firing from his factory job after a violently suppressed labor union strike. The well-off Lee Ye Ji, a documentary filmmaker, with her businessman husband, Sang-woo, has decided to make a movie about job layoffs and wants to make Mi-Ok and Ho-Seok her main camera subjects.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHotel by the River (2019)
An aging poet summons his estranged sons to the hotel he is staying at because he feels his death is near; meanwhile, he encounters two women staying at the hotel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThree Friends (2024)
Joan is no longer in love with Victor, but it pains her to feel she is being dishonest with him. Alice, her best friend, reassures her: She herself doesn’t feel passionate about her partner Eric and yet their relationship is smooth sailing. She has no idea he is having an affair with Rebecca, their mutual friend. When Joan finally decides to leave Victor and he disappears, the lives of the three friends and their relationships are turned upside down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both 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 drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe People Upstairs (2020)
Julio and Ana have been together for more than fifteen years. They have become a couple who no longer look at nor touch one another, and who have made daily fighting the essence of their relationship. This evening, Ana has invited their upstairs neighbors to come round, Salva and Laura, a couple younger than them, pleasant and friendly, but whose noises are now an annoyance for Julio and Ana... or perhaps a stimulus? The upstairs neighbors will make them an unusual and surprising proposal which will turn the evening into an exaggerated and cathartic experience for all four.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 drama
You're Sleeping, Nicole (2014)
Making the most of the family home while her parents are away, 22-year-old Nicole is enjoying a peaceful summer with her best friend Véronique. But when Nicole’s older brother shows up with his band to record an album, the girls’ friendship is put to the test.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOur Sunhi (2013)
Sunhi, a film major graduate, visits her school to ask her Professor Choi for a recommendation letter to study in U.S. Knowing the professor favors her, she expects a good recommendation from him. Out from her shell after a long time, Sunhi also ends up meeting two men from her past: Munsu, her ex-boy friend, and Jaehak, a director who graduated from the same film school. Through the encounters between Sunhi and the three men, they give each other an 'advice on life' with good intentions. The three men who all have strong interests in her are led to guess and define her, unable to tell how she really feels inside. Strangely, the mentioned advices and traits of her are similar and seem to pass from one person to the next. The words of 'advice on life' seem doubtable and slip away as the three men's thoughts on Sunhi become more and more irrelevant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOn a Magical Night (2019)
After 20 years of marriage, Maria decides to leave her husband. She moves into room 212 at the hotel across the street, with a bird’s-eye view of her apartment, her husband and the life she shared with him. While she wonders if she made the right decision, many of the people in her life offer their opinions on the matter. They intend to let her know, whether she likes it or not, on what proves to be a life-changing evening.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWith a Friend Like Harry... (2000)
While fixing up their summer cottage, Michel and his family run into a man who claims to have gone to high school with Michel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSign of the Lion (1962)
An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Claire's Camera?
The closest matches to Claire's Camera are The Summer with Carmen (2023), In Another Country (2012) and On the Beach at Night Alone (2017). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Claire's Camera?
People who watched Claire's Camera most often go on to The Summer with Carmen (2023), In Another Country (2012) and On the Beach at Night Alone (2017).
What is the highest-rated movie like Claire's Camera?
Sorry Angel (2018), rated 6.9/10 by 242 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Claire's Camera?
Possible Love (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Claire's Camera?
Yes: Things to Come (2016), Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno (2018) and Ava (2017).
How are movies similar to Claire's Camera chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Claire's Camera, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.