Movies like Summer Things
If Summer Things's mix of infidelity, beach and france stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Summer Things's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Pardon Mon Affaire
1976 · Directed by Yves Robert · 105 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: infidelity, older woman younger man relationship · Also a French comedy
On an otherwise normal day, Étienne, a happily married man and a good father, sees something that stops him dead in his tracks: a gorgeous woman in a billowing red dress.
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Something's Gotta Give
2003 · Directed by Nancy Meyers · 128 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: older man younger woman relationship, older woman younger man relationship · Also drama and comedy · From the same decade (2000s)
When perpetually single, aging music industry exec Harry Sanborn, and his latest trophy girlfriend, Marin, arrive at her mother's beach house in the Hamptons, they find that her mother, playwright Erica Barry, also…
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Delicacy
2011 · Directed by David Foenkinos · 108 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: france · Also a French drama
A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
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Silver Linings Playbook
2012 · Directed by David O. Russell · 122 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: infidelity, unfaithful wife · Also drama and comedy
After losing his job and wife, and spending time in an institution, a former teacher winds up living with his parents. He wants to rebuild his life and reconcile with his wife, but his father would be happy if he…
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Chocolat
2000 · Directed by Lasse Hallström · 121 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: france · Also comedy and drama · From the same decade (2000s)
In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where they open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of the strictly Catholic townsfolk and mayor.
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Dunkirk
2017 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 107 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: beach, france
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June…
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Little White Lies
2010 · Directed by Guillaume Canet · 154 min7.1
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy
Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested.
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Love on the Run
1979 · Directed by François Truffaut · 93 min7.0
Why you'll like itAlso a French romance
Now in his thirties, Antoine Doinel is a divorced proofreader in love with a record seller. Colette Tazzi, now a lawyer, buys his first published autobiography, leading them to a chance meeting.
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The Party 2
1982 · Directed by Claude Pinoteau · 109 min6.4
Why you'll like itAlso a French comedy
A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.