Movies like Longwave
If Longwave's comedy stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Longwave's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Knock
2017 · Directed by Lorraine Lévy · 113 min6.4
Why you'll like itWith Michel Vuillermoz · Also a French comedy · From the same decade (2010s)
Doctor Knock is a former thug who has become a doctor and arrives in the small village of Saint-Maurice to make his fortune according to a particular method.
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Family Resemblances
1996 · Directed by Cédric Klapisch · 110 min7.3
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
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Ace of Aces
1982 · Directed by Gérard Oury · 100 min7.1
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young…
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Five
2016 · Directed by Igor Gotesman · 102 min7.0
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy · From the same decade (2010s)
A young man paying the rent for himself and his lifelong friends ends up flat-broke and resorts to selling marijuana to pay the bills – only to get caught up in the dangerous world of drugs.
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Micmacs
2009 · Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet · 104 min6.7
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy
While standing in the doorway of the video shop where he works, Bazil is inadvertently shot in the head. Now homeless and jobless, he is taken in by a troupe of misfits who live in a giant mound of trash.
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In Her Hands
2018 · Directed by Ludovic Bernard · 105 min6.6
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy · From the same decade (2010s)
A young man from a modest family gets the chance of a lifetime to reveal his hidden talent for piano but can he find the strength and courage to live up to the challenge?
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Three Men and a Cradle
1985 · Directed by Coline Serreau · 106 min6.4
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy
Three young men - Jacques, Pierre, and Michel - share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of Jacques' tells him he has a quite compromising package to deliver,…
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Second Tour
2023 · Directed by Albert Dupontel · 95 min6.3
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy
A disgraced political journalist placed in the soccer section, Miss Pove is asked to follow the presidential campaign in progress. The front-runner is a fifty-year-old heir to a powerful French family and a political…
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The Speech
2020 · Directed by Laurent Tirard · 87 min6.3
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy
Meet Adrien! He's 35. He's stuck in a mid-life crisis. He's neurotic and hypochondriac. Tonight he's stuck in an endless family dinner and his girlfriend is not answering his texts.
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Superwho?
2022 · Directed by Philippe Lacheau · 82 min6.3
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy
A struggling actor seems doomed to live life as a loser. When he finally snatches a lead role as a superhero named “Badman,” he feels like everything is possible, but fate strikes again.