Movies like The Dreamlife of Angels (1998)
The best movies like The Dreamlife of Angels (1998) are A Good Marriage (1982), Elles (2011) and Anna M. (2007). If The Dreamlife of Angels hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Woman Next Door (1981)7.1/10 from 353 votes
- NewestThings to Come (2016)Released 2016
- In FrenchA Good Marriage (1982)Also in French
A Good Marriage (1982)
Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisElles (2011)
A journalist tries to balance the duties of marriage and motherhood while researching a piece on college women who work as prostitutes to pay their tuition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAnna M. (2007)
Anna, a somewhat introverted woman, becomes obsessed with the orthopedic surgeon who helped with her recuperation following a car accident. Incorrectly believing the love to be reciprocated, she embarks on several attempts to try and stay in touch with him but, after several rejections, finds herself descending into despair and, ultimately, hatred.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Betty (1992)
A drunken, self-destructive woman called Betty wanders into a Parisian bar where she meets middle-aged alcoholic Laure. Laure decides to take care of Betty. Recovering in a hotel room, Betty begins to recount to Laure the story of her bourgeois life and her unhappy and unfaithful marriage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCold Water (1994)
An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general monotony of their lives. When the pair are caught shoplifting, Christine's father ships her off to a home for emotionally disturbed children, temporarily putting space between her and Gilles. Luckily for them, though, she escapes and the couple contemplate running away together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNathalie... (2004)
Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hoping to learn more about his extramarital activities, Catherine heads to a strip club, where she hires call girl Nathalie to have a fling with Gerard. As the affair progresses, Nathalie gives Catherine regular status reports, and the relationship between the women evolves from business to personal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSister (2012)
A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCéline (1992)
After the death of her father, 22-year-old Céline inherits most of his estate, but gives it to her stepmother, causing her greedy fiancé to leave her. Following several failed suicide attempts, Céline is hospitalized and comes to the attention of a nurse, Genevieve, who has struggled with depression. Under her personal care, Céline gradually recovers, and the two women grow close.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWater Lilies (2007)
Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma, and the two leads, capture the uncertainty of teenage sexuality with a sympathetic eye in this delicate drama of the angst of coming-of-age.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThings to Come (2016)
Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie’s husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Little Princess (2011)
Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is an unpredictable photographer who lives off of the generosity of others. When Hannah forces her daughter to pose as a model, Violetta finds her life with her loving grandmother turned upside down.The resulting pictures quickly become a sensation for the trendy 70's Paris art scene, and Violetta finds herself caught in between her new stature as an art muse and her dull childhood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe New Girlfriend (2014)
A young woman makes a surprising discovery about the husband of her late best friend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGilles' Wife (2004)
Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in silence. She listens to her husband rave; she asks her priest; she breaks picture frames; she weeps. She decides on a strategy to keep him. Will she succeed?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Thank You, Life (1991)
Camille, a naïve schoolgirl, meets an intriguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new friend through the discovery of sex and the darker side of life. As the film progresses, Camille discovers AIDS and the fear that she may have picked up the disease in her early encounters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Adopted (2011)
Lisa and Marine live a life of relative companionship together, where the only man permitted into the equation is Lisa’s young son, Leo. However, their simple existence is thrown into disarray when Marie meets and falls in love with Alex, a customer at her bookshop. Lisa is left feeling excluded, and tension develop. But soon an unexpected accident forces all of those involved to reassess the situation and adopt a different position in each other’s lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisÀ l'aventure (2009)
Fed up with her present lifestyle, and more particularly sexually unsatisfied by her boyfriend Fred, Sandrine decides to find a new way in life. Intrigued by her friend Sophie, who tells her about her sexual experimentations, she will find, through various encounters, new pleasures and new experiences, whether physical or spiritual.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBeatrice (1987)
Somewhere in France during the Middle Ages. Béatrice is impatient to see her father return from English captivity. She doesn't expect however that the father whom she loves from distance will be the most hateful person who will submit her and her family to abuse and humiliation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
This Is My Body (2001)
Gifted student Antoine goes against his family’s wishes and accepts the lead role in a controversial director’s film. He learns that the role had previously been offered to a young man who committed suicide after an on-set affair – and events conspire to draw Antoine towards the same lover.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Young & Beautiful (2013)
Isabelle, a 17-year-old student, loses her virginity during a quick holiday romance. When she returns home, she begins a secret life as a prostitute for a year.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTime to Leave (2005)
Romain, 31, a fashion photographer with terminal cancer, elects to die alone, preparing others to live past him rather than prolong the inevitable with chemotherapy or be smothered in sympathy by those who know him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Woman Next Door (1981)
Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJacquot (1991)
Jacquot Demy, the son of a garage owner and a hairdresser, is fascinated by cinema and decides to pursue his dream of becoming a filmmaker by any means necessary.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLourdes (2009)
In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWild Reeds (1994)
As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges for two of his classmates: a country boy, and a French-Algerian intellectual.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBreathe (2014)
Charlie, a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt, is thrilled when she becomes friends with Sarah, but when Sarah tires of Charlie and looks for a new friend, their relationship takes an ominous turn.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRose, c'est Paris (2010)
Bettina Rheims and Serge Bramly's Rose, c'est Paris is both a photographic monograph and a feature-length film. This extraordinary work of art, in two different but interlocking and complementary formats, defies easy categorization. For in this multi-layered opus of poetic symbolism, photographer Bettina Rheims and writer Serge Bramly evoke the City of Light in a completely novel way: this is a Paris of surrealist visions, confused identities, artistic phantoms, unseen manipulation, obsession, fetish, and seething desire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Murderous Maids (2000)
Based on the true story of two chambermaids of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Love You, I Don't (1976)
The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck-stop, where she's lonely and longs for love. She develops a crush on the garbage truck driver Krassky, although her sleazy boss Boris warns her that he's gay.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisStarlet (2012)
An unlikely friendship forms between 21 year-old Jane and the elderly Sadie after Jane discovers a hidden stash of money inside an object at Sadie's yard sale.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisScarecrow (1973)
Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Dreamlife of Angels?
The closest matches to The Dreamlife of Angels are A Good Marriage (1982), Elles (2011) and Anna M. (2007). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Dreamlife of Angels?
People who watched The Dreamlife of Angels most often go on to A Good Marriage (1982), Elles (2011) and Anna M. (2007).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Dreamlife of Angels?
The Woman Next Door (1981), rated 7.1/10 by 353 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Dreamlife of Angels?
Things to Come (2016) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like The Dreamlife of Angels?
Yes: A Good Marriage (1982), Elles (2011) and Anna M. (2007).
How are movies similar to The Dreamlife of Angels chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Dreamlife of Angels, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.