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Movies like Jeanne's House (1988)

The best movies like Jeanne's House (1988) are Everybody Loves Jeanne (2022), The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) and The Best Years of a Life (2019). If Jeanne's House hooked you with its drama and romance, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. Everybody Loves Jeanne (2022)

    Everybody has always loved Jeanne. These days, she hates herself. Up to her ears in debt, she has to go to Lisbon and sell her mother’s apartment, who passed away one year ago. At the airport, she runs into Jean, a whimsical and somewhat intrusive former high school classmate.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy

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  2. The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)

    Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire is not a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph. Then she tries the neighbour, former officer Mauger. This seems to work. But soon the son of the Lanlaires comes back. He is young, attractive and does not share his mother's antirepublican opinions. So Celestine's beauty attracts Captain Mauger, young Georges Lanlaire, and Joseph. Three men, from three different social classes, with three different conceptions of life. Will Celestine be able to convince Georges of her sincerity?

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance

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  3. The Best Years of a Life (2019)

    They knew each other long ago: a man and a woman whose dazzling and unexpected romance captured in the now-iconic film revolutionized our understanding of love. Today, the former race car driver seems lost in the pathways of his memory. In order to help him, his son seeks out the woman his father wasn’t able to cherish but whom he constantly revisits in his thoughts and dreams. Anne reunites with Jean-Louis and their story picks up where they left it…

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance

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  4. Madame (2017)

    Anne and Bob, a well-to-do American couple, have just moved to a beautiful manor house in romantic Paris. To impress their sophisticated friends, they decide to host a lavish dinner party, but must disguise their maid as a noblewoman to even out the number of guests. When the maid runs off with a wealthy guest, Anne must chase her around Paris to thwart the joyous and unexpected love affair.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy

  5. Le Plaisir (1952)

    Three stories about pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Madame Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falls in love with his model - pleasure and death.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy

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  6. Strictly Sexual (2008)

    Two successful women, sick and tired of dating and relationships, decide to keep two young men in their pool house for strictly sexual purposes.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy

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  7. Diary of a Fleeting Affair (2022)

    A single mother and a married man enter into an affair with the understanding that their relationship is purely sexual. Though they agree the relationship has no future, they find themselves increasingly drawn into each other's company.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama

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  8. Anaïs in Love (2021)

    A young woman struggling to stay on top of everything in her life meets a married publisher and begins an affair with him.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance

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  9. L.A. Without a Map (1999)

    An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a waitress at a Japanese restaurant, she tells everyone about the handsome "writer" she met on her trip. Unfortunately, he decides to follow her back to Hollywood, setting up the expected light romantic comedy with asides as the newcomer gains experience about the goings on in Hollywood.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy

  10. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2025)

    An aspiring author looking to get more out of life takes up a writing residency and finds herself in the sort of romantic entanglements that could come from the pages of a Jane Austen novel.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance

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  11. Chéri (2009)

    The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy

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  12. Our Story (1984)

    Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life. An attractive young woman, Donatienne, suddenly enters the compartment and offers to make love to him. Robert accepts but, when the woman leaves the train afterwards, he decides to follow her...

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy

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  13. A California Christmas: City Lights (2021)

    Follows Callie and Joseph one year after they fell in love, now running a dairy farm and winery, but their romance is threatened when business and family obligations call Joseph back to the city.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy

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  14. Night Owls (2015)

    After workaholic Kevin has a drunken one night stand with the beautiful train-wreck Madeline, he's horrified to discover that she's actually his boss' jilted ex-mistress. When she takes a bottle of sleeping pills, Kevin is forced to keep her awake... and over the course of the night the two begin to fall for each other.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy

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  15. The Good House (2021)

    When wry New England realtor Hildy Good rekindles a romance with her old high-school flame, Frank Getchell, it ignites long-buried emotions and family secrets that propel Hildy toward a reckoning with the one person she's been avoiding for decades: herself. Based on the best-selling novel by Ann Leary.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama

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  16. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)

    Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice of a psychic. Sally, the daughter of Alfie and Helena, is unhappy in her marriage and develops a crush on her boss, while her husband, Roy, falls for a woman engaged to be married.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

  17. Too Beautiful for You (1989)

    A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before his wife finds this particular entanglement of her husband's very difficult to accept.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance

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  18. How to Please a Woman (2022)

    When her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control, a mature woman must embrace her own sexuality, if she is to make a new life for herself.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy

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  19. Two Friends (2015)

    Mona, a prisoner on work release, meets Clément, a shy actor. Desperate to impress Mona, Clément recruits his extroverted friend, Abel, to help. When Mona becomes more interested in Abel, it sets off a conflict between the two friends. Meanwhile, Mona attempts to keep her past hidden.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance

  20. Moliere (2007)

    Molière, a down-and-out actor-cum-playwright up to his ears in debt. When the wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt so that Molière's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise, hilarity ensues.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like Jeanne's House?

The closest matches to Jeanne's House are Everybody Loves Jeanne (2022), The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) and The Best Years of a Life (2019). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Jeanne's House?

Start with Everybody Loves Jeanne (2022), the closest match to Jeanne's House.

What is the highest-rated movie like Jeanne's House?

Moliere (2007), rated 6.4/10 by 205 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Jeanne's House?

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2025) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there French movies like Jeanne's House?

Yes: Everybody Loves Jeanne (2022), The Best Years of a Life (2019) and Le Plaisir (1952).

How are movies similar to Jeanne's House chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Jeanne's House, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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