Movies like Dodging the Clock
If Dodging the Clock's mix of quebec, paternity and thirty something stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Dodging the Clock's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Mon Oncle
1958 · Directed by Jacques Tati · 118 min7.4
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy
Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs.
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What's in a Name
2012 · Directed by Alexandre de La Patellière · 110 min7.3
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy
Vincent, a wealthy real estate agent, is invited to dinner by his sister Elizabeth and her husband Peter, both professors in Paris. Claude, a childhood friend and trombonist in a symphony orchestra, is also present.
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Hibernatus
1969 · Directed by Édouard Molinaro · 82 min6.7
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy
Hubert de Tartas' life becomes a complete muddle when his wife's grandfather is unearthed after having spent 65 years in frozen hibernation in the polar circle.
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The Gilded Cage
2013 · Directed by Ruben Alves · 90 min6.7
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy
In the beautiful area of Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the ground floor of a Haussmann building, in their dear little lodge.
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The ComDads
1983 · Directed by Francis Veber · 92 min6.6
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy
Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.
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It Boy
2013 · Directed by David Moreau · 92 min6.5
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy
38-year-old Alice has everything to become the next editor-in-chief of Rebelle magazine except for her uptight image. But when the young and charming Balthazar, barely 20, crosses Alice's path, she realizes that he…
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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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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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We Are Family
2016 · Directed by Gabriel Julien-Laferrière · 99 min6.3
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy
Thirteen-year-old Bastien is the center of a reconstructed family: six half-brothers and sisters, eight "parents," and as many houses. His tasks within the family are far more complex than what he has to do at school.