Movies like Gontran and the Unknown Neighbour (1913)
The best movies like Gontran and the Unknown Neighbour (1913) are Addicted (2014), Chloe (2010) and Strung (2026). If Gontran and the Unknown Neighbour hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Gontran and the Unknown Neighbour
Quick picks
- Highest ratedYou Can't Take It with You (1938)7.5/10 from 473 votes
- NewestStrung (2026)Released 2026
- In FrenchBeau Pere (1981)Also in French
Addicted (2014)
A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisChloe (2010)
Catherine and David Stewart are a well-to-do couple living in a posh area of Toronto, but all is not well in paradise. Catherine suspects that David is cheating on her, so she hires an escort named Chloe to meet David and see if he gives in to temptation — but events spin out of control when Chloe spills the details of her torrid encounters.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStrung (2026)
A talented violinist's prestigious new role as a music tutor for an enigmatic, elite family spirals into a psychological battle for her safety and sanity.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBeau Pere (1981)
Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Mephisto Waltz (1971)
A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not much interested in Myles until noticing that Myles' hands are ideally suited for piano. Suddenly, he can't get enough of his new friend, and Myles' wife, Paula, becomes suspicious of Duncan's intentions. Her suspicions grow when Duncan dies and Myles mysteriously becomes a virtuoso overnight.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove at Second Sight (2019)
A man tries to make his wife fall in love with him again, after waking up in an alternate reality where she never knew him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisYou Can't Take It with You (1938)
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNightcap (2000)
Mika, heiress to a Swiss chocolate company, is married to celebrated pianist André and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wreck on his tenth birthday. Their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne, a young woman who has learned she was almost switched with Guillaume at birth.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Married Woman (1964)
A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFor a Woman (2013)
After the death of her mother, Anne makes a shocking discovery: an old photograph casts doubt on her origins and leads her to discover a mysterious uncle who lived with her parents after the war. As she lifts the lid on a long forgotten family secret, the young woman learns that her mother once succumbed to an amorous passion that was as intense as it was short-lived...
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Housemaid (2025)
Trying to escape her past, Millie Calloway accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina and Andrew Winchester. But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous—a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Beautician and the Beast (1997)
A New York City beautician is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStoker (2013)
Following her father Richard's death in an unexplained road accident, reclusive teenager India Stoker withdraws further into the quiet rural life she shares with her emotionally disturbed mother Evie. But her curiosity is stirred when her mysterious uncle Charlie, who she has never met, suddenly arrives unannounced. Told that the darkly charismatic Charlie will now be staying at the house, India's initial well-founded distrust of her uncle's motivations begins to waver as she finds herself becoming ever more deeply entranced by his sinister charms.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career threaten to derail his musical aspirations.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOscar (1967)
This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes. In the same morning he learns that his daughter is pregnant, an employee stole a large amount of money from his company, his maid is about to resign in order to marry a wealthy neighbor and his body builder is interested in marrying his daughter. The seemingly complicated story-line is full of comedy or errors and some of the most hilarious mime scenes of the French cinema.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)
A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIt Ends with Us (2024)
When a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended, and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for her future.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLaurel Canyon (2003)
When an uptight young man and his fiancée move into his libertine mother's house, the resulting clash of life attitudes shakes everyone up.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDeception (1946)
After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Gontran and the Unknown Neighbour?
The closest matches to Gontran and the Unknown Neighbour are Addicted (2014), Chloe (2010) and Strung (2026). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Gontran and the Unknown Neighbour?
Start with Addicted (2014), the closest match to Gontran and the Unknown Neighbour.
What is the highest-rated movie like Gontran and the Unknown Neighbour?
You Can't Take It with You (1938), rated 7.5/10 by 473 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Gontran and the Unknown Neighbour?
Strung (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Gontran and the Unknown Neighbour?
Yes: Beau Pere (1981), Love at Second Sight (2019) and Nightcap (2000).
How are movies similar to Gontran and the Unknown Neighbour chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Gontran and the Unknown Neighbour, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.