Movies like Fly Me the French Way (1974)
The best movies like Fly Me the French Way (1974) are Weekend (1967), Femmes Fatales (1976) and Sweet Movie (1974). If Fly Me the French Way hooked you with its comedy and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Exterminating Angel (1962)7.9/10 from 779 votes
- NewestClimax (2018)Released 2018
- In FrenchWeekend (1967)Also in French
Weekend (1967)
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFemmes Fatales (1976)
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSweet Movie (1974)
The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMr. Freedom (1969)
Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to France to cut off a Commie invasion from Switzerland. A destructive, arrogant patriot in tight pants, Freedom joins forces with Marie Madeleine to combat lefty freethinkers, as well as the insidious evildoers Moujik Man and inflatable Red China Man, culminating in a star-spangled showdown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
The Bunker (2015)
A student moves in with a family that lives in an underground house in the middle of the forest, far from civilization. His hopes of peace and quiet are soon shattered, when it becomes apparent that both the parents and their son have a screw loose.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Milky Way (1969)
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way, they meet a vast assortment of characters—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Exterminating Angel (1962)
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Holy Mountain (1973)
The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGreaser's Palace (1972)
A parable based on the life of Christ. This ain't your father's Bible story, full of references about the destruction of the world through massive constipation and a New Mexican setting.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTrans-Europ-Express (1966)
A movie producer, director and assistant take the Trans-Europ-Express from Paris to Antwerp. They get the idea for a movie about a drug smuggler on their train and visualize it while taping the script.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like this2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEraserhead (1977)
First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLa Grande Bouffe (1973)
Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLa Chinoise (1967)
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGoing Places (1974)
Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeoisie holds dear, whether it’s cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She’s on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFando and Lis (1972)
Fando and his partially paralysed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThat Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSanta Sangre (1989)
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless, cult leader mother, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSuccessive Slidings of Pleasure (1974)
A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scissors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts. Apparently, the girl does have powers, to make all people around her fall prey to her spell, glissing progressively into desire, lust, and the unknown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Devils (1971)
In 1634 France, charismatic Father Urbain Grandier becomes the target of sexually depraved Sister Jeanne's accusations of witchcraft, which corrupt officials of church and state are all too happy to exploit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEden and After (1970)
A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious man called Duchemin. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDaughters of Darkness (1971)
Ostend, Belgium. In a decadent seaside hotel, Stefan and Valerie, a newlywed couple, meet the mysterious Countess Báthory and Ilona, her secretary.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisClimax (2018)
When a dance troupe is lured to an empty school, a bowl of drug-laced sangria causes their jubilant rehearsal to descend into a dark and explosive nightmare as they try to survive the night—and find who's responsible—before it's too late.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEugenie de Sade (1973)
Eugenie, a beautiful but shy young girl, lives with her stepfather, a famous writer specializing in stories of erotica. One day she happens to read one of his "erotic" books and its power so affects her that begins to find herself sexually attracted to her stepfather. He notices this, and eventually brings her into his dark world of sexual perversion and murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlow-Up (1966)
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEnd of the Road (1970)
Moments after receiving his graduate diploma, Jacob waits at a train station. The future lies ahead, but life abruptly intervenes. Images flash in Jacob's mind: of war, injustice, assassination, protest, the entire spectrum of 1960s angst and anger - sending Jacob into a catatonic state. What follows during his bizarre rehab and its aftermath will be another form of madness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Belle de Jour (1967)
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisValerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian, a vampire-like stranger and otherworldly carnival folk.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSupervixens (1975)
Clint must flee after his wife is killed by a psychopathic cop, who tries to pin the murder on him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Fly Me the French Way?
The closest matches to Fly Me the French Way are Weekend (1967), Femmes Fatales (1976) and Sweet Movie (1974). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Fly Me the French Way?
People who watched Fly Me the French Way most often go on to Weekend (1967), Femmes Fatales (1976) and Sweet Movie (1974).
What is the highest-rated movie like Fly Me the French Way?
The Exterminating Angel (1962), rated 7.9/10 by 779 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Fly Me the French Way?
Climax (2018) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Fly Me the French Way?
Yes: Weekend (1967), Femmes Fatales (1976) and Mr. Freedom (1969).
How are movies similar to Fly Me the French Way chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Fly Me the French Way, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.