20 best movies like Jules and Jim (1962)

List of the best movies like Jules and Jim (1962): A Heart in Winter, A Faithful Man, The Collection, L'Atalante, Free Men, Love, Twice Upon a Yesterday, Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, Children of Paradise, Mauvais Sang.

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Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, drama, music
CountryFrance
Duration01:45

Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:28

Marianne leaves Abel for Paul, his best friend and the father of her unborn child. Eight years later, Paul dies and Marianne returns to Abel. However, things have changed for the both of them and feelings of jealousy surround their new relationship.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama, drama, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
Duration01:38

A gripping family drama and entrepreneurial fable, set in a post-war Paris fashion house. It exposes the grit behind the glamour of a rising business, spearheaded by two clashing brothers.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance

Capricious small-town girl Juliette and barge captain Jean marry after a whirlwind courtship, and she comes to live aboard his boat, L'Atalante. As they make their way down the Seine, Jean grows weary of Juliette's flirtations with his all-male crew, and Juliette longs to escape the monotony of the boat and experience the excitement of a big city. When she steals away to Paris by herself, her husband begins to think their marriage was a mistake.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
CountryFrance
Duration01:39

In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very known facts about the Muslim community in Paris during WWII, when the Paris Mosque and its dynamic leader played a pivotal role in supporting the resistance and rescuing Jews.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:21

Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the seismic effect it will have on their relationship, they invite their pretty neighbor into their bed.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountrySpain, France, United Kingdom, Germany, USA
Duration01:31

Victor Bukowski is an out-of-work actor with problems. He's got a lousy agent, he has a habit of falling out with directors and he's still in love with his ex-girlfriend. However, Victor is about to embark on an unexpected emotional journey which will make him confront his future and his past mistakes.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genremelodrama, drama, music
CountryFrance, Japan, Luxembourg
Duration02:00

Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The revolutionary dissonances of Igor's work parallel Coco's radical ideas. She wants to democratize women's fashion; he wants to redefine musical taste. Coco attends the scandalous first performance of The Rite in a chic white dress. The music and ballet are criticized as too modern, too foreign. Coco is moved but Igor is inconsolable.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration03:10

Filmed during the German occupation, this French milestone centers around the theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan and the four men who love her. Voted the “Best French Film in History” by the French Film Academy in 1990.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genremelodrama, drama, crime
CountryLuxembourg, France
Duration02:05

A sexually transmitted disease called STBO is sweeping the country. It's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment. While a serum that can treat the disease has been formulated, it's been locked away in an inaccessible government building. A woman hires two men to steal the serum.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
CountryFrance, Italy

Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration02:10

Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
CountryFrance, United Kingdom, Czech Republic
Duration02:25

From Paris in the 1960s to London in the first decade of the third millennium, Madeleine and her daughter Véra flit from one amorous adventure to the next, living for the moment and taking all the opportunities that life offers. But not every love affair is without its consequences, its upsets and its disappointments. As time goes by and gnaws away at one’s deepest feelings, love becomes a harder game to play.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance, Italy, Germany

A seemingly ideal marriage is thrown into embarrassing turmoil in Patrice Chéreau's period drama, based on the short story The Return by Joseph Conrad.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genremelodrama, drama, musical
CountryUSA
Duration01:53

Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genremelodrama, drama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:05

The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:37

The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryFrance
Duration02:05

Two actresses fall prey to the supernatural manipulations of a nightclub magician.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:28

In this lively French remake of Humpday, best buds reunite and revive their friendship on a questionable dare. Can two straight guys really make a gay sex film, together?

Markimdb: 7
Genremelodrama, drama, crime
CountryFrance, Italy
Duration02:00

Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, history
CountryFrance
Duration02:17

Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance

When a romance between a widow and a notorious libertine takes an unexpected turn, Mademoiselle de Joncquières becomes instrumental to one lover’s plans for revenge.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryFinland, France, Sweden, Germany
Duration01:40

Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration02:07

The film tells the tale of a widowed film director who is in the middle of making a film about an atypical diplomat inspired by his brother. While he has started a new life with Sylvia, he still mourns the death of a former lover, Carlotta, who passed away 20 years earlier; then Carlotta returns from the dead, causing Sylvia to run away.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:25

Théo and Hugo meet in a club and form an immediate bond. Once the desire and elation of this first moment has passed, the two young men, now sober, wander through the empty streets of nocturnal Paris, having to confront the love they sense blossoming between them. Ducastel and Martineau's most ambitious film to date and a candid insight into 21st century life.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:00

A woman on the brink of a marriage proposal is told by a friend that she should date other men before spending the rest of her life with her boyfriend.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:58

Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look back on a turbulent relationship that she experienced with Georgio.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, Republic of Ireland
Duration02:42

    In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:37

    When Camille falls ill, she is forced to live with Philibert and Franck.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:48

    A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration02:19

    Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's quest for freedom through writing and on Simone's conviction that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, detective
    CountryFrance, Senegal, Belgium

    Along the Atlantic coast, a soon-to-be-inaugurated futuristic tower looms over a suburb of Dakar. Ada, 17, is in love with Souleiman, a young construction worker. But she has been promised to another man. One night, Souleiman and his co-workers leave the country by sea, in hope of a better future. Several days later, a fire ruins Ada’s wedding and a mysterious fever starts to spread. Little does Ada know that Souleiman has returned.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryTurkey
    Duration02:23

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    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:22

    A woman and three men. Nina, who's come to Paris to act and sleeps with any man at hand, meets Paulot, a young estate agent; he's smitten. She also meets Paulot's flatmate Quentin, a compulsive who stalks her. To Paulot's jealous dismay, she's willing to sleep with Quentin, and wants Paulot's friendship. After a desperate act by Quentin, Nina and Paulot share a flat, but she still won't take him as a lover; instead, her energy goes into a production of "Romeo and Juliet" directed by a detached, intense man who becomes her father figure. Quentin's ghost taunts her, Paulot wants to end all contact, and the director plans to return to London. The art of the theater may be her only refuge.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryBelgium, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy
    Duration02:17

    An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, United Kingdom
    Duration01:29

    Based on a controversial French novel, Lila Says tells the story of a quiet young poet named Chimo who develops a crush on the pretty, blond Lila, a girl who recently moved into his Arab ghetto with her aunt. When the leader of a rival gang also falls for Lila, the ensuing love triangle initiates a journey of sexual discovery -- and sets off a chain of devastating events.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA

    Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. His apartment is a viager—an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale—and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde Girard, who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloé for many years, can by contract collect monthly payments from Mathias until her death.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:51

    Charlotte is cheating on Micha with Mélodie. Not suspecting a thing, yet feeling neglected, Micha in turn cheats on Charlotte. But also with Mélodie. For Mélodie, things are topsy-turvy. She lies to both of them. She is privy to each of their lies. And is in love with both of them at the same time.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical
    CountryIndia

    A Hindu boy falls in love with a Muslim girl.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration01:41

    The quirky story of a young boy's adventures growing up with his stunningly beautiful mother and the two very different men who love her.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Italy, USA
    Duration01:45

    A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, United Kingdom
    Duration02:20

    Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as he will. However, in the process of seducing the married woman, Valmont falls in love. Based on the same novel as "Dangerous Liaisons."

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance

    Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:25

    Ex-convict Georges Manda returns to the free world determined to go straight and takes a steady job as a carpenter. Unable to completely shake his connections with the underground, he meets with a former prison mate, older gangster Félix Leca, who introduces him to his mistress, the sweet but guarded Marie "Casque d'Or". Marie and Georges fall into a passionate relationship, driving Félix to do everything in his power to ruin the couple.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:00

    At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman meets in Paris Ann Brown, a young Englishwoman. They become friends and Ann invites him to spend holidays at the house where she lives with her mother and her sister Muriel, for whom she intends Claude. During these holidays, Claude, Ann and Muriel become very close and he gradually falls in love with Muriel. But both families lay down a one-year-long separation without any contact before agreeing to the marriage. So Claude goes back to Paris when he has many love affairs before sending Muriel a break-off letter...

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:59

    Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Austria
    Duration01:34

    A young unemployed man finds work at a nuclear power plant and begins an illicit affair with the fiancée of one of his senior workmates.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Germany, Belgium
    Duration01:40

    A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, detective
    CountryPortugal, France
    Duration04:32

    The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:49

    The second film from the Le Boum series about a young French teenage girl who 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.




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