Movies like Avec Kim
If Avec Kim's mix of car mechanic, mechanic and female protagonist stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Avec Kim's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Vivre Sa Vie
1962 · Directed by Jean-Luc Godard · 84 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: female protagonist · Also a French drama
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
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Manon of the Spring
1986 · Directed by Claude Berri · 115 min7.6
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside.
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Once in a Lifetime
2014 · Directed by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar · 105 min7.4
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
At Léon Blum High School in Créteil, France, a history teacher decides to have her weakest 10th grade class participate in a national history competition.
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La Cérémonie
1995 · Directed by Claude Chabrol · 112 min7.3
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.
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Nouvelle Vague
2025 · Directed by Richard Linklater · 106 min7.2
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama · From the same decade (2020s)
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.
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Breathe
2014 · Directed by Mélanie Laurent · 91 min7.1
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
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.
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Declaration of War
2011 · Directed by Valérie Donzelli · 100 min7.0
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others.
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Two-Lane Blacktop
1971 · Directed by Monte Hellman · 103 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: car mechanic
A driver and mechanic drag racing for money cross paths with a female hitchhiker and a drifter who challenges them to a cross-country race.