Movies like Phénomènes électriques (1935)
The best movies like Phénomènes électriques (1935) are Le monde moderne (2016), Le premier cigare (1897) and Les clowns Price (1898). If Phénomènes électriques hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedPersepolis (2007)7.9/10 from 2,276 votes
- NewestSirocco and the Kingdom of Winds (2023)Released 2023
- In FrenchLe monde moderne (2016)Also in French
Le premier cigare (1897)
Since this is lost the content of the film can only be presumed but it was supposedly depicted a schoolboy smoking his first cigar.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Inn (2012)
1862. A high altitude inn at the foot of a glacier in the Swiss Alps Each winter the snow isolates the inn rendering it totally inaccessible.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Mauvais temps (2006)
An unlucky driver gets a flat tire in a particularly bad neighborhood. No sooner had he stepped out of his car than he was approached by menacing strangers holding a knife to his nose. The man fled and took refuge in a building, blocking the front door. The siege of the building begins.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Asterix the Gaul (1967)
In the year 50 BC, Gaul is occupied by the Romans - nearly. But the small village of Asterix and his friends still resists the Roman legions with the aid of their druid's magic potion, which gives superhuman strength. Learning of this potion, a Roman centurion kidnaps the druid to get the secret formula out of him.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMidnight's Garden (2017)
The moon shines, a young couple plays in the forest. Their game leads them to an unfamiliar garden, in the middle of a clearing. Unaware of danger, the young lovers enter the maze of a garden at midnight. Little by little, they are submerged by a intoxicating spell. They lose themselves in the strange labyrinth. Will they manage to break the spell that keeps them prisoner?
Why it matches: Similar story and style
A Monkey's Tale (1999)
Kom is from a tribe of monkeys who live in a canopy. He rejects elders' authority as well as the superstition that the lower world would be inhabited by demons. But he accidentally falls from the trees…
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Neighbors' Neighbors (2022)
An ogre breaks his teeth the day before Saint-Festin, the ogres’ great celebration day. A magician botches his trick of sawing a woman in half, and loses his assistant’s legs. An overequipped hiker gets stuck in the elevator for several days. An old man falls in love with a runaway pair of legs. A mother asks her neighbour to look after her children on the eve of Saint-Festin… In one building, the lives of ten next-door neighbours, or the neighbours of neighbours, intertwine as they grapple with the dramas, joys, surprises and dangers of everyday life.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Sirocco and the Kingdom of Winds (2023)
Agnès, Juliette and Carmen's neighbour, writes children's storybooks that take place in a fantasy world, The Kingdom of the Winds. The intrepid sisters discover a passageway between their world and this extraordinary universe. Once on the other side, the girls take on the appearance of cats and discover Sirocco, a terrifying character who can control the wind.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Persepolis (2007)
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisKirikou and the Wild Beasts (2005)
Kirikou's grandfather thinks that the story of Kirikou and The Witch was too short, so he proceeds to explain more about Kirikou's accomplishments. We find out how the little boy became a gardener, a detective, a maker of pottery, a merchant, a traveler and a doctor.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Triplets of Belleville (2003)
When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters—an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire—to rescue him.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFantastic Planet (1973)
On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAzur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest (2006)
Raised on tales of a Djinn fairy princess, Azur, a young Frenchman goes to North Africa in search of the sprite, only to discover that his close childhood friend, Asmar, an Arab youth whose mother raised both boys also seeks the genie.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Maid and the Magician (1992)
"I am ugly, I am alone, I am bored". In three seconds, everything will change...
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Dancing Shepherdess (1992)
A pretty shepherdess is in love with a young shepherd. So is a fairy. The shepherdess knows how to look after sheep and dance to the sound of her boyfriend's pipe. As for the fairy, she is powerful and hard-hearted; she has a flying dragon, a crystal palace, a sleeping tower and other evil powers. Which of the two will win ?
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Prince of Jewels (1992)
Here we have an innocent boy, a pretty princess, a treacherous merchant and a giant eagle who is fond of jewels. The tale is set in the country of the Arabian Nights, under a hail of precious stones...
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Barewolf (2011)
The werewolves that live in this secluded place are particularly savage: when not attacking anything that moves, they spend their time arguing and fighting. Driven by instinct, one young werewolf chases pink flamingos through the wild, straying far from home. Before he knows it, he’s in a place he knows nothing about: the world of humans.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Phénomènes électriques?
The closest matches to Phénomènes électriques are Le monde moderne (2016), Le premier cigare (1897) and Les clowns Price (1898). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Phénomènes électriques?
Start with Le monde moderne (2016), the closest match to Phénomènes électriques.
What is the highest-rated movie like Phénomènes électriques?
Persepolis (2007), rated 7.9/10 by 2,276 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Phénomènes électriques?
Sirocco and the Kingdom of Winds (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Phénomènes électriques?
Yes: Le monde moderne (2016), Le premier cigare (1897) and Les clowns Price (1898).
How are movies similar to Phénomènes électriques chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Phénomènes électriques, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.