Movies like The Great Java
If The Great Java's comedy stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Great Java's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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What's in a Name
2012 · Directed by Matthieu Delaporte · 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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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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Up to His Ears
1965 · Directed by Philippe de Broca · 104 min7.0
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy
A millionaire realizes he really wants to live after he has hired an assassin to kill him.
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The Women on the 6th Floor
2011 · Directed by Philippe Le Guay · 106 min6.8
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy
Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of two arrogant teenage boys, currently in a boarding school.
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All That Glitters
2010 · Directed by Hervé Mimran · 100 min6.3
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy
Best friends Ely and Lila share everything together, including their dream of a life beyond the Paris suburb they've lived in since childhood.
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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…