Movies like The Artist (2011)
The best movies like The Artist (2011) are Babylon (2022), Stardust Memories (1980) and Café Society (2016). If The Artist hooked you with its drama and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedCinema Paradiso (1988)8.4/10 from 5,050 votes
- NewestNouvelle Vague (2025)Released 2025
- In FrenchDay for Night (1973)Also in French
Babylon (2022)
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStardust Memories (1980)
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCafé Society (2016)
The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Circus (1928)
Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisEd Wood (1994)
The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMy Week with Marilyn (2011)
London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe. Young Colin Clark, who dreams on having a career in movie business, manages to get a job on the set as third assistant director.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSingin' in the Rain (1952)
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisDay for Night (1973)
A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCity Lights (1931)
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisLa La Land (2016)
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Rules of the Game (1939)
The Marquis de la Chesnaye and his wife host a weekend gala where a variety of complicated romantic and social entanglements between guests and servants lead to tragedy, all against the backdrop of a looming war.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCinema Paradiso (1988)
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisChaplin (1992)
An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNouvelle Vague (2025)
After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, young Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He gets Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, creating a treatment with Truffaut about a gangster couple.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSunset Boulevard (1950)
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisLimelight (1952)
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisRKO 281 (1999)
In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the purpose of making his first film.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Brighter Tomorrow (2023)
An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDiamonds (2024)
In 1970s Rome, a filmmaker gathers actresses for a new project, which triggers memories of his past working in a Roman costume shop, run by Alberta and Gabriella, navigating personal and professional challenges while creating costumes for a major film.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMank (2020)
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSullivan's Travels (1941)
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCobweb (2023)
In the 1970s, Director Kim is obsessed by the desire to re-shoot the ending of his completed film Cobweb, but chaos and turmoil grip the set with interference from the censorship authorities, and the complaints of actors and producers who can't understand the re-written ending. Will Kim be able to find a way through this chaos to fulfill his artistic ambitions and complete his masterpiece?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Big Picture (1989)
Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Studio executive Allen Habel seduces Nick with a dream deal to make his first feature, but once production gets rolling, corporate reality begins to intervene: Nick is unable to control a series of compromises to his high-minded vision, and it's all he can do to maintain his integrity in the midst of filmmaking chaos.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisMidnight in Paris (2011)
While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)
The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge success as one of the greatest film comedians of all time; an obsessive artist so dedicated to his work that neglected his loved ones and sacrificed part of his own personality to convincingly create that of his many memorable characters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBarton Fink (1991)
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMagic in the Moonlight (2014)
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll About Eve (1950)
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisA Star Is Born (1937)
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Artist?
The closest matches to The Artist are Babylon (2022), Stardust Memories (1980) and Café Society (2016). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Artist?
People who watched The Artist most often go on to Babylon (2022), Stardust Memories (1980) and Café Society (2016).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Artist?
Cinema Paradiso (1988), rated 8.4/10 by 5,050 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Artist?
Nouvelle Vague (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like The Artist?
Yes: Day for Night (1973), The Rules of the Game (1939) and Nouvelle Vague (2025).
How are movies similar to The Artist chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Artist, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.