Movies like Expecting
If Expecting's drama and comedy stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Expecting's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Jim's Story
2024 · Directed by Jean-Marie Larrieu · 101 min6.9
Why you'll like itWith Laetitia Dosch · Also a French comedy · From the same decade (2020s)
Aymeric runs into Florence, a former coworker, one evening in Saint-Claude in the Haut-Jura. She is six months pregnant and single. When she gives birth to Jim, Aymeric is there.
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What the Day Owes the Night
2012 · Directed by Alexandre Arcady · 162 min7.6
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends.
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The Names of Love
2010 · Directed by Michel Leclerc · 100 min7.2
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn't hesitate to sleep with those who don't agree with her to convert them to her cause - which is a lot of…
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Macadam Stories
2015 · Directed by Samuel Benchetrit · 100 min6.8
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
Improbable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation.
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Moliere
2007 · Directed by Laurent Tirard · 115 min6.4
Why you'll like itAlso a French romance
Molière, a down-and-out actor-cum-playwright up to his ears in debt. When the wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt so that Molière's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed…
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Just to Be Sure
2017 · Directed by Carine Tardieu · 100 min6.4
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
Erwan, a strapping Breton who clears mines for a living, is shaken when he discovers that his father is not his father. Despite his affection for the man who raised him, he quietly sets out to find his biological…
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Love Affair(s)
2020 · Directed by Emmanuel Mouret · 122 min6.3
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama · From the same decade (2020s)
Vacations in the French countryside. Daphne, three months pregnant, finds herself alone to welcome Maxime, her boyfriend François’ cousin. François had to leave in a hurry for Paris to cover for a sick colleague.
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Serial (Bad) Weddings 3
2021 · Directed by Philippe de Chauveron · 97 min6.3
Why you'll like itAlso a French romance · From the same decade (2020s)
Claude and Marie Verneuil will soon be celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. For the occasion, their four daughters - Isabelle, Odile, Ségolène and Laure - decide to organize a big surprise party in their family…