Movies like La Charnière (1968)
The best movies like La Charnière (1968) are Tout Va Bien (1972), Chronicle of a Summer (1961) and The Worst Ones (2022). If La Charnière hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedCléo from 5 to 7 (1962)7.7/10 from 823 votes
- NewestLove Letters (2025)Released 2025
- In FrenchTout Va Bien (1972)Also in French
Tout Va Bien (1972)
A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChronicle of a Summer (1961)
Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking passersby how they cope with life's misfortunes.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Worst Ones (2022)
The story centres on a group of teenagers street cast in their neighbourhood and selected to play in a feature film during the summer. The film tells the story of this film shoot and of the connections that will be formed during it.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHappening (2021)
France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to do so.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAt War (2018)
After promising 1100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a factory decide to suddenly close up shop. Laurent takes the lead in a fight against this decision.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNinotchka (1939)
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Mad Women's Ball (2021)
A woman who is unfairly institutionalized at a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel 'Le bal des folles' by Victoria Mas.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Smiling Madame Beudet (1923)
An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGerminal (1993)
It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOne Fine Morning (2022)
With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLOL (Laughing Out Loud) (2009)
Lola is a striking teenaged girl who is on the cusp of adulthood and longs to rush into the adult world of independence, freedom and sexual exploits, but is tenaciously held back by her mother.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFunny Face (1957)
A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHuman Resources (2000)
"Good son" Franck returns to his hometown to do a trainee managerial internship in the Human Resources department of the factory where his anxious, taciturn father has worked for 23 years.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove Letters (2025)
Céline, 32, is expecting her first child. But Céline is not pregnant. In three months, it is Nadia, her wife, who will give birth to their daughter.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe African Doctor (2016)
1975. When Seyolo Zantoko, a doctor from the Congo who has managed, along with his family, to flee tyranny, is hired by the mayor of a small town in northern France, he begins a struggle to adapt to a new life and gain the trust of the prejudiced villagers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLola (1961)
A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Public Woman (1984)
An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. She winds up playing a real-life role posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, who is manipulated by the filmmaker into commiting a political assassination.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJacquot (1991)
Jacquot Demy, the son of a garage owner and a hairdresser, is fascinated by cinema and decides to pursue his dream of becoming a filmmaker by any means necessary.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like La Charnière?
The closest matches to La Charnière are Tout Va Bien (1972), Chronicle of a Summer (1961) and The Worst Ones (2022). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after La Charnière?
Start with Tout Va Bien (1972), the closest match to La Charnière.
What is the highest-rated movie like La Charnière?
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), rated 7.7/10 by 823 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like La Charnière?
Love Letters (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like La Charnière?
Yes: Tout Va Bien (1972), Chronicle of a Summer (1961) and The Worst Ones (2022).
How are movies similar to La Charnière chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside La Charnière, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.