Movies like The Lion (2020)
The best movies like The Lion (2020) are Zaï Zaï Zaï Zaï (2022), Retirement Home (2022) and A Difficult Year (2023). If The Lion hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Specials (2019)7.8/10 from 1,011 votes
- NewestA Difficult Year (2023)Released 2023
- In FrenchZaï Zaï Zaï Zaï (2022)Also in French
Zaï Zaï Zaï Zaï (2022)
Imagine a world where the worst behaviour you could ever have is to forget your store's loyalty card in your other trousers...that's what happens to Adrien. This serious misconduct forces him to go into hiding, as both police and media hunt him down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisRetirement Home (2022)
A story of friendship between a young convict who is forced to work in a retirement home and a group of crazy old people. Together they organize their escape.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Difficult Year (2023)
Compulsive spenders Albert and Bruno are in debt up to their necks. While seeking help from community workers to get their lives back on track, they run into a group of young green activists. Lured by the free beer and snacks rather than by the ideals of eco-activists, Albert and Bruno find themselves joining the movement without much conviction.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisFive (2016)
A young man paying the rent for himself and his lifelong friends ends up flat-broke and resorts to selling marijuana to pay the bills – only to get caught up in the dangerous world of drugs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStuck Together (2021)
Seven families live in the Parisian apartment building at 8, Rue de l’Humanite - and they didn’t escape to the countryside at the arrival of the coronavirus. Three months of life under lockdown will reveal the best and worst of these neighbours.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLes Municipaux, ces héros (2018)
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Small Victories (2023)
Between her roles as mayor and teacher in the small village of Kerguen, Alice's days are very full. When an unexpected new student, 60-year-old Emile, finally decides to learn to read and write, her daily life threatens to become unmanageable. Especially since Alice will also have to save her village and her school...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKnock (2017)
Doctor Knock is a former thug who has become a doctor and arrives in the small village of Saint-Maurice to make his fortune according to a particular method. It will make the villagers believe that they are not as healthy as they might think. It is thus that he will find in each one an imaginary symptom, or not, and thus will be able to exercise his profession lucratively. Under his seductive looks and after gaining the confidence of the village, Knock is on the verge of achieving his ends. But his past catches up with him and an old acquaintance disrupts the doctor's plans.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to stumble into a web of international intrigue.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStruggle for Life (2016)
Marc Châtaigne, an intern at the Ministry of Standards, is sent to French Guiana to implement European construction standards at Guyaneige: the first Amazonian ski slope, intended to boost tourism in French Guiana. There, he meets Tarzan, an attractive intern at the National Forestry Office, with whom he’ll get lost on a journey through the jungle that will take him far, far away…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Specials (2019)
For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have lived in a different world—the world of autistic children and teens. In charge of two separate nonprofit organizations (The Hatch & The Shelter), they train young people from underprivileged areas to be caregivers for extreme cases that have been refused by all other institutions. It’s an exceptional partnership, outside of traditional settings, for some quite extraordinary characters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Very Bad Friend (2019)
Mika, a little crook, took a quick tour of the prison, where he got to know "Putin", a crazy and unpredictable detainee. As soon as his sentence has been served, he decides to start from scratch and start his life over again. As he prepares to marry the daughter of a wealthy businessman, his past catches up with him: Putin arrives without warning! Mika will quickly realize that we do not easily get rid of such a ball ...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCase départ (2011)
Two contempo Frenchmen of Antillean descent visit their ancestor's time as well as their land in the slavery-themed French era.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSimply Black (2020)
A failed 40 year old comedian wants to organize the first Black protests in France but meeting with other French celebrities of the Black community will make it a whole new adventure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe French Minister (2013)
Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a force to be reckoned with. With his silver mane and tanned, athletic body, he stalks the world stage as Minister of Foreign Affairs for France, waging his own war backed up by the holy trinity of diplomatic concepts: legitimacy, lucidity, and efficacy. Enter Arthur Vlaminck. Hired to write the minister's speeches, Arthur must contend with the sensibilities of his boss and the dirty dealings within the Quai d'Orsay, the ministry's home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLife for Real (2023)
Tridan Lagache has spent his whole life at Club Med, changing friends every 8 days. At 50, he resigns from the vacation spot where he was born, determined to track down his great mini-club childhood love, Violette. He shows up in Paris, naïve and lost but glad to be lodged by Louis, a half-brother he never knew he had. In order to be rid of the cumbersome Tridan, Louis passes one of his fling off as Violette, and Tridan, all emotional, thinks he recognizes her at first glance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisWe Need Your Vote (2018)
Arnaud, a 25-year-old man, enters the campaign team of a candidate for the French presidential election as assistant to the Director of communication. While discovering the techniques, intricacies and rivalries of the electoral campaign, he will feel fascination for this world, as well as for its attractive director, Agnès.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLucky (2020)
Willy and Tony have a brilliant idea for getting out of it financially: stealing a dog from the brigade des stups. But everything does not go as planned and the two accomplices will have to rely on the most corrupt of the cops.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisComment c'est loin (2015)
After ten years of doing nothing, Orel and Gringe are in their mid 30s and they struggle to finish their first rap album. Their texts are mostly sex jokes and booze stories and reflect the everyday life they have in a small town from France. The problem is that they never really finished a song and when their producers want to meet, they have to face a new challenge : finish their first song in the next 24h. Their old issues, the fear of failure, their alcoholic friends and annoying girlfriends won't help them to do so, or will they ?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVive la France (2013)
Muzafar and Feruz are two easy going shepherds from Taboulistan, a tiny country in Asia that is unknown to the rest of the world. To alert the world to his country’s existence, the son of Taboulistan’s president decides to instigate a program of publicity terrorism. To that end, he recruits our two naive shepherds, their mission: to destroy the Eiffel Tower! But the France that Muzafar and Feruz discover is far from what they had expected...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisPresidents (2021)
A former french President, Nicolas, decides to persuade another one, François, to campaign together in order to return to the front stage of politics.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisFatal (2010)
Fatal... short for Fatal Bazooka, a hardcore bling-bling rapper. A huge music star. Millions of fans, tons of hits, 4 Artist Of The Year Music Awards of Music, a fashion line, a magazine, and soon his own amusement park: Fataland. He is the undisputed number one, until...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKeep an Eye Out (2018)
Louis just found the corpse of a man in front of his apartment building. Taken in for custody by Captain Buron, he finds himself on the wrong end of a surreal interrogation. But how can you prove you are innocent when the cops are crazy?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies 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: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGet Well Soon (2014)
After an accident, Pierre, a sixty years old grumpy man, ends up stuck on an hospital bed with a cast. While Pierre dreams of silence and solitude with his strong character, the whole world seems to invite himself to his hospital bed. Powerless, he has to support the daily visits of doctors,nurse and hospital staff then his closes including his brother Herve. Visits after visits, funny or touching, Pierre starts to reconsider some people and reexamine his environment. And after all, his stay becomes a second chance ...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisGold Brick (2023)
Determined to even the scales and profit from his thankless job, a factory worker schemes to traffic luxury perfumes from under his employer's nose.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCyrano, My Love (2018)
Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two children, desperate and penniless, he persuades the great actor Constant Coquelin to perform the main role in his new play. But there is a problem: Coquelin wants to premiere it at Christmas and Edmond has not written a single word.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCa$h (2008)
A man meets up with two "good guys" to recover what is unlawfully his, taking them on his whirlwind ride, doing things they never would have imagined, just to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Visitor from the Future (2022)
In a devastated future, the apocalypse threatens the Earth. The last hope lies with a man capable of time travel. His mission: to return to the past and change the course of events. But the time police hunts him down in every era. A race against time begins for the Visitor from the Future...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFan-Fan the Tulip (2003)
In this 2003 remake of the classic 1952 French film, Fanfan la Tulipe is a swashbuckling lover who is tricked into joining the army of King Louis XV by Adeline La Franchise, who tells Fanfan that by doing so, he will eventually marry one of the king's daughters
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Lion?
The closest matches to The Lion are Zaï Zaï Zaï Zaï (2022), Retirement Home (2022) and A Difficult Year (2023). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Lion?
People who watched The Lion most often go on to Zaï Zaï Zaï Zaï (2022), Retirement Home (2022) and A Difficult Year (2023).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Lion?
The Specials (2019), rated 7.8/10 by 1,011 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Lion?
A Difficult Year (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like The Lion?
Yes: Zaï Zaï Zaï Zaï (2022), Retirement Home (2022) and A Difficult Year (2023).
How are movies similar to The Lion chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Lion, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.