Movies like Ergasterium Atomicum (2021)
The best movies like Ergasterium Atomicum (2021) are Be Kind Rewind (2008), Fat Girl (2001) and Love Me No More (2008). If Ergasterium Atomicum hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedHome (2009)7.8/10 from 584 votes
- NewestNouvelle Vague (2025)Released 2025
- In FrenchFat Girl (2001)Also in French
Be Kind Rewind (2008)
A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFat Girl (2001)
Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is fifteen and devilishly beautiful. Neither more futile, nor more stupid than her younger sister, she cannot understand that she is merely an object of desire. And, as such, she can only be taken. Or had. Indeed, this is the subject: a girl's loss of virginity. And, that summer, it opens a door to tragedy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove Me No More (2008)
Antoine Méliot is around 40 years old and has everything he needs to be happy: a beautiful wife, two adorable children, friends he can count on, a pretty house in the Yvelines and money. But one day he decides to ruin everything in one weekend.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe House by the Sea (2017)
By a little bay near Marseille lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days. It’s time for them to weigh up what they have inherited of their father’s ideals and the community spirit he created in this magical place. The arrival, at a nearby cove, of a group of boat people will throw these moments of reflection into turmoil.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBy the Grace of God (2019)
Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who abused him decades ago continues to work with children. He joins forces with others victims of the priest, to bring justice and “lift the burden of silence” about what they endured.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPlay (2019)
In 1993, Max was 13 when he was offered his first camera. For 25 years he will not stop filming. The bunch of friends, the loves, the successes, the failures. From the 90s to the 2010s, it is the portrait of a whole generation that is emerging through its objective.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMy Summer in Provence (2014)
In the wake of their parent's separation, three siblings spend the summer in the south of France with their estranged Grandfather. In less than 24 hours, a clash of generations has occurred between the teenagers and the old man. During this turbulent summer, both generations will be transformed by one another.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Sower (2017)
In 1852, the mountain village in Provence where Violette lives is brutally deprived of all its men after the repression of the republicans ordered by Napoleon III. Women spend months in total isolation, desperate to see their men again. In this situation, they make an oath in case a man arrives in the village.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLife in a Day (2011)
A documentary shot by filmmakers all over the world that serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHuman Resources (2000)
"Good son" Franck returns to his hometown to do a trainee managerial internship in the Human Resources department of the factory where his anxious, taciturn father has worked for 23 years.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Childhood of a Leader (2016)
The chilling story of a young American boy living in France in 1918 whose father is working for the US government on the creation of the Treaty of Versailles. What he witnesses helps to mold his beliefs – and we witness the birth of a terrifying ego.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIntolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHome (2009)
In 200,000 years of existence, man has upset the balance on which the Earth had lived for 4 billion years. Global warming, resource depletion, species extinction: man has endangered his own home. But it is too late to be pessimistic: humanity has barely ten years left to reverse the trend, become aware of its excessive exploitation of the Earth's riches, and change its consumption pattern.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisChill Out, Scooby-Doo! (2007)
The gang's vacation to Paris takes a wrong turn when Scooby and Shaggy miss their flight and end up on a skydiving expedition in the Himalayas. To make matters worse, upon arrival they must outrun the Abominable Snowmonster.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEinstein and the Bomb (2024)
What happened after Einstein fled Nazi Germany? Using archival footage and his own words, this docudrama dives into the mind of a tortured genius.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLa Jetée (1962)
A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisColours of Time (2025)
When four distant cousins inherit a 19th-century home in Normandy, they decide to visit and examine their family history. No one has lived there since the 1940s, and the cousins are intrigued by all of the items they find there, little things that help them to understand their ancestor, Adèle Vermillard. Jumping back and forth in time, they meet the mysterious Adèle, whose bohemian lifestyle, and her relationships with the leading artists of the time, changes their lives.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Grand Highway (1987)
Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year- old girl next door, and learns from her about life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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What are the best movies like Ergasterium Atomicum?
The closest matches to Ergasterium Atomicum are Be Kind Rewind (2008), Fat Girl (2001) and Love Me No More (2008). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Ergasterium Atomicum?
Start with Be Kind Rewind (2008), the closest match to Ergasterium Atomicum.
What is the highest-rated movie like Ergasterium Atomicum?
Home (2009), rated 7.8/10 by 584 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Ergasterium Atomicum?
Nouvelle Vague (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Ergasterium Atomicum?
Yes: Fat Girl (2001), Love Me No More (2008) and Nouvelle Vague (2025).
How are movies similar to Ergasterium Atomicum chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Ergasterium Atomicum, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.