Movies like Forever Young (2022)
The best movies like Forever Young (2022) are The French Kissers (2009), A Summer's Tale (1996) and A Tale of Love and Desire (2021). If Forever Young 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 ratedLittle Tickles (2018)7.4/10 from 388 votes
- NewestOther People's Children (2022)Released 2022
- In FrenchThe French Kissers (2009)Also in French
The French Kissers (2009)
An awkward adolescent boy and his angst-ridden friends try their best to fit in amongst a cast of varied characters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Summer's Tale (1996)
Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends — and flirts heavily with — two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie Solène, making for a rather complicated situation when Léna finally arrives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Tale of Love and Desire (2021)
Ahmed, 18, is French of Algerian origin. He grew up in the Parisian suburbs. On the benches of the university, he meets Farah, a young Tunisian full of energy recently arrived from Tunis. While discovering a body of sensual and erotic Arabic literature that he never knew existed, Ahmed falls deeply in love with this girl, and although literally overwhelmed by desire, he will try to resist it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrance (2021)
A celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisOrchestra Class (2017)
A violinist looks to inspire his students at a challenging music school.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Divide (2021)
Raf and Julie, a couple on the verge of breaking up, find themselves in an emergency ward bordering on collapse on the evening of a Parisian Yellow Vest protest. Their encounter with Yann, an angry and injured demonstrator, will shatter each person's certainties and prejudices. Outside, the tension escalates.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnaïs 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: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAn Impudent Girl (1985)
Charlotte Castang is a working-class 13-year-old girl, who lives in a drab, run-down neighbourhood, and is ready to become an adult. Her mother died giving birth to her, and she lives with her crass brother and a father whose attention is elsewhere. Her only friend is Lulu, a sick 10-year-old she regards as a pest. Charlotte is antisocial, bored and dreams of a better life. Her life improves when she meets Clara Bauman, a pianist prodigy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOther People's Children (2022)
Rachel loves her life, her students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she grows close to his 4-year-old daughter, Leila. She tucks her in, looks after her, and loves her like a mother... which she isn’t. Not yet. Rachel is 40. The desire for a family of her own is growing stronger, and the clock is ticking. Is it too late?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll About Them (2015)
Charlotte is cheating on Micha with Mélodie. Not suspecting a thing, yet feeling neglected, Micha in turn cheats on Charlotte. But also with Mélodie. For Mélodie, things are topsy-turvy. She lies to both of them. She is privy to each of their lies. And is in love with both of them at the same time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisChocolat (2016)
Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer Footit in the very popular in Belle Epoque Paris. But easy money, gambling, and discrimination take their toll on their friendship and Chocolat's career.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLittle Tickles (2018)
Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBreak (2018)
Lucie, a young dancer suffers an accident. When she wakes up from a coma, she and her partner start training for a dance show. On the way, she starts looking for her estranged father, a path that might lead her to life-changing love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLa Lectrice (1988)
A young woman passionate about reading immerses herself in the adventures of a fictional character who makes reading her profession. As she explores different neighborhoods and wintertime Provence, her imagination blends with reality, revealing the mysteries behind each word.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Donkey, My Lover & I (2020)
Antoinette, a school teacher, is looking forward to her long planned summer holidays with her secret lover Vladimir, the father of one of her pupils. When learning that Vladimir cannot come because his wife organized a surprise trekking holiday in the Cévennes National Park with their daughter and a donkey to carry their load, Antoinette decides to follow their track, by herself, with Patrick, a protective donkey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGodard Mon Amour (2017)
In 1967, during the making of “La Chinoise,” film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 19-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and marries her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWaiting for Bojangles (2021)
A boy and his eccentric parents leave their home in Paris for a country house in Spain. As the mother descends deeper into her own mind, it's up to the boy and his father to keep her safe and happy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGood Old Daze (1995)
Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They remember their teenage, their laughs, their dreams, their stupid pranks... a description of the French youth in the middle of the seventies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Castle in Italy (2013)
Louise meets Nathan, her dreams resurface. It's also the story of her ailing brother, their mother, and the destiny of a leading family of wealthy Italian industrialists. The story of a family falling apart, a world coming to an end and love beginning.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisCycling with Molière (2013)
Serge Tanneur is at the pinnacle of his acting career when he decides to turn his back on show business and become a hermit living off of France’s Atlantic coast. Three years later, Gauthier Valence, a beloved TV actor, shows up on the island to offer Serge a role in his directorial debut – a rendition of Molière’s classic play, “The Misanthrope”. Serge refuses at first, but then suggests that they rehearse the first scene and after five days he’ll decide if he wants to dothe play or not. What ensues is a battle of brawn and wits and peculiar encounters with a hotel maid who longs to be a pornstar and an Italian divorcée.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove Me If You Dare (2003)
As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might be a way to avoid the fact that they are truly meant for one another.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIt Boy (2013)
38-year-old Alice has everything to become the next editor-in-chief of Rebelle magazine except for her uptight image. But when the young and charming Balthazar, barely 20, crosses Alice's path, she realizes that he holds the key to her promotion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHunting & Gathering (2007)
When Camille falls ill, she is forced to live with Philibert and Franck.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this18 Years Old and Rising (2011)
Primo is an ordinary middle-class youngster studying for his baccalaureate, who gets side-tracked when he falls in love with a rich girl. They soon learn they have to deal with her condescending friends who look down upon this upstart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThrough the Fire (2018)
Franck is a firefighter in Paris. He saves people. He lives at the station with his wife, who is about to have twins. He’s happy. During a call out to a fire, he puts himself in danger, to save his men. He’s going to have to learn to live again and accept to be the one being saved, this time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFreestyle (2022)
One morning, Louise, 45, is suddenly unable to step out of her car. Sweats, anxieties, palpitations... she is having an inexplicable panic attack. She is tetanized and simply cannot set foot outside.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAn Easy Girl (2019)
Naïma has just turned 16. This summer, she will have to decide what she wants from life if she doesn’t want to miss out. Then her cousin Sofia arrives, with an amazing body and a dangerously seductive lifestyle. Naïma desires only to follow her own path, so long as it leads upwards… Despite the warnings of her best friend Dodo, she and Sofia will live through unforgettable encounters during a long summer that will mark them forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAline (2021)
A fictionalized biopic of Aline Dieu, a multitalented singer from a musically inclined family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRushmore (1998)
When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the teacher. However, the situation soon gets complicated when Max's new friend becomes involved with her, setting the two pals against one another in a war for her attention.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisReal Women Have Curves (2002)
In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Forever Young?
The closest matches to Forever Young are The French Kissers (2009), A Summer's Tale (1996) and A Tale of Love and Desire (2021). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Forever Young?
People who watched Forever Young most often go on to The French Kissers (2009), A Summer's Tale (1996) and A Tale of Love and Desire (2021).
What is the highest-rated movie like Forever Young?
Little Tickles (2018), rated 7.4/10 by 388 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Forever Young?
Other People's Children (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Forever Young?
Yes: The French Kissers (2009), A Summer's Tale (1996) and A Tale of Love and Desire (2021).
How are movies similar to Forever Young chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Forever Young, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.