Movies like Normal
If Normal's mix of theater play, theater and drama stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Normal's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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All Three of Us
2015 · Directed by Kheiron · 102 min7.5
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolution, prison, beatings, assassinations and suicides this is a comedy.
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Bye Bye Morons
2020 · Directed by Albert Dupontel · 87 min7.2
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy · From the same decade (2020s)
When 43-year-old hairdresser Suze Trappet finds out that she's seriously ill, she decides to go looking for a child she was forced to abandon when she was only 15.
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The Big Hit
2020 · Directed by Emmanuel Courcol · 105 min7.0
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy · From the same decade (2020s)
Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to stage Samuel Beckett’s famous play Waiting for Godot.
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Jim's Story
2024 · Directed by Arnaud Larrieu · 101 min6.9
Why you'll like itAlso 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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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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Other People's Children
2022 · Directed by Rebecca Zlotowski · 104 min6.7
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama · From the same decade (2020s)
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.
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Sweetheart
2019 · Directed by Lisa Azuelos · 87 min6.4
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy
A working woman, mother a three children, realizes that, when her youngest one is about to go to Canada to continue her education, she will end up out of her most precious goal, being a mother.
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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…