Movies like Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont (2005)
The best movies like Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont (2005) are The Lady in the Van (2015), This Beautiful Fantastic (2016) and The Miracle Club (2023). If Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont hooked you with its drama and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)7.3/10 from 1,600 votes
- NewestMother's Pride (2026)Released 2026
The Lady in the Van (2015)
The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThis Beautiful Fantastic (2016)
Set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London, this contemporary fairy tale revolves around the unlikely friendship between a reclusive young woman and a cantankerous old widower. Bella Brown is a beautifully quirky young woman who dreams of writing and illustrating a successful children’s book. After she is forced by her landlord to deal with her neglected garden or face eviction, she meets her match, nemesis, and unlikely mentor in Alfie Stephenson, a grumpy, loveless, old man who lives next door who happens to be an amazing horticulturalist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Miracle Club (2023)
Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the journey of a lifetime — a visit to Lourdes, the picturesque French town and place of miracles.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMr. Morgan's Last Love (2013)
A widowed professor living in Paris develops a special relationship with a younger French woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCalendar Girls (2003)
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBhaji on the Beach (1993)
A group of South Asian women try but cannot escape their problems on a day trip to a British beach resort.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Ladies in Lavender (2004)
Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the musically talented young man disrupts the peaceful lives of Ursula and Janet and the community in which they live.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Family and Other Animals (2005)
Escaping the dreary wet weather of 1930s England, an eccentric family uproot and ship themselves to the sunnier climes of the Greek island of Corfu.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Educating Rita (1983)
Rita, a witty 26-year-old hairdresser, wants to 'discover' herself, so she joins the Open University where she meets the disillusioned professor of literature, Dr. Frank Bryant. His marriage has failed, his new girlfriend is having an affair with his best friend and he can't get through the day without downing a bottle or two of whisky. What Frank needs is a challenge... and along comes Rita.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGreenfingers (2001)
Prison inmate Colin Briggs is introduced to gardening, and when his thriving prison garden attracts the attention of flamboyant gardening expert Georgina Woodhouse, she offers to sponsor the inmates in an upcoming flower show. At the Hampton Court Flower Show, Colin meets Georgina's daughter and romance is in bloom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWords and Pictures (2014)
An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWishin' and Hopin' (2014)
Felix Funicello is a Catholic school fifth-grader in 1964, whose claim to fame is his cousin Annette Funicello, the famous Mouseketeer and teen movie queen. But grammar and arithmetic move to the back burner this holiday season with the sudden arrivals of substitute teacher Madame Frechette and feisty Russian student Zhenya Kabakova. While Felix learns the meaning of French kissing, cultural misunderstanding, and tableaux vivants, Wishin' and Hopin' barrels toward one outrageous Christmas!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Local Hero (1983)
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThen She Found Me (2007)
A New York schoolteacher experiences a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies, and her biological mother, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with the father of one of her students.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Old Lady (2014)
Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. His apartment is a viager—an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale—and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde Girard, who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloé for many years, can by contract collect monthly payments from Mathias until her death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDriving Lessons (2006)
A shy teenage boy trying to escape the influence of his domineering mother, has his world changed when he begins to work for a retired actress.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose in their old age.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisQuartet (2012)
Cissy, Reggie, and Wilf are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, there is a concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday and they take part. Jean, who used to be married to Reggie, arrives at the home and disrupts their equilibrium. She still acts like a diva, but she refuses to sing. Still, the show must go on, and it does.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Magic of Belle Isle (2012)
In an effort to tap into his original talent, a wheelchair-bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids, who help reignite his passion for writing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe 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 drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTotally True Love (2011)
When the new boy in class, Jørgen, moves into the haunted house down the road, Anne’s world turns upside-down; she falls head over heals in love with him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Angels' Share (2012)
Robbie is a Glasgow boy locked in a family feud who just wants a way out. On community service, he meets Rhino, Albert and Mo. Little did Robbie imagine that turning to drink might change their lives, leading them to the distilleries of the Scottish Highlands and the biggest gamble of his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShadows in the Sun (2005)
An aspiring young writer tracks a literary titan suffering from writers block to his refuge in rural Italy and learns about life and love from the irascible genius and his daughters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMother's Pride (2026)
A comedy about a failing pub, a divided community and a grieving family whose lives are changed by brewing real ale and entering the Great British Beer Awards.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Castello Cavalcanti (2013)
In 1955 in Italy, race car driver Jed Cavalcanti suffers a mishap during the Molte Miglia rally and finds himself in a small town with a few familial surprises.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDear Eleanor (2016)
Two teenage girls travel across the U.S. in 1962, during the chaos of the Cuban missile crisis, in search of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBritt-Marie Was Here (2019)
Britt-Marie, a woman in her sixties, decides to leave her husband and start anew. Having been a housewife for most of her life and living in the small backwater town of Borg with few jobs available, she soon finds herself fending a youth football team.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLe Week-End (2013)
Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The film follows the couple as long-established tensions in their marriage break out in humorous and often painful ways.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Cake General (2018)
Set in 1984, Hans Pettersson (Hasse P.) decides to create the largest sandwich cake ever made in order to put his home town, Köping, on the map.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont?
The closest matches to Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont are The Lady in the Van (2015), This Beautiful Fantastic (2016) and The Miracle Club (2023). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont?
People who watched Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont most often go on to The Lady in the Van (2015), This Beautiful Fantastic (2016) and The Miracle Club (2023).
What is the highest-rated movie like Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont?
The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), rated 7.3/10 by 1,600 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont?
Mother's Pride (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont?
Yes: The Lady in the Van (2015), This Beautiful Fantastic (2016) and The Miracle Club (2023).
How are movies similar to Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.