Movies like Universal Language
If Universal Language's mix of quebec, winnipeg and independent film stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Universal Language's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Half Brothers
2020 · Directed by Luke Greenfield · 96 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: independent film · Also comedy and drama · From the same decade (2020s)
Mexican aviation exec Renato is shocked to learn that he has an American half-brother he never knew about: free-spirited Asher. They are forced on a road trip together, tracing the path their father took from Mexico to…
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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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School of Life
2017 · Directed by Nicolas Vanier · 116 min7.4
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
Paris 1930. Paul has only ever had one and the same horizon: the high walls of the orphanage, an austere building in the Parisian working class suburbs.
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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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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.