20 best movies like Max My Love (1986)

List of the best movies like Max My Love (1986): The Clink of Ice, Night on Earth, Lucky Numbers, That Obscure Object of Desire, Boudu Saved from Drowning, Le Week-End, The Phantom of Liberty, Seven Psychopaths, It's a Disaster, A Gorgeous Girl Like Me.

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Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:27

An alcoholic writer is visited by an incarnation of his cancer.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance, United Kingdom, Germany, USA, Japan
Duration02:09

An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Markimdb: 5
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryFrance, USA
Duration01:45

Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal the TV station's lotto ball girl to rig the state lottery drawing. The numbers come up right, but everything else goes wrong as the plan starts to unravel and the game turns rough.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance, Spain
Duration01:43

After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy
CountryFrance
Duration01:25

Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well-to-do bookseller, Edouard Lestingois. The Lestingois family decides to take in the irrepressible bum, and he shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations. With Boudu Saved from Drowning, legendary director Jean Renoir takes advantage of a host of Parisian locations and the anarchic charms of his lead actor to create an effervescent satire of the bourgeoisie.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, France
Duration01:33

Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The film follows the couple as long-established tensions in their marriage break out in humorous and often painful ways.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrecomedy
CountryFrance, Italy
Duration01:43

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:50

    A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    Four couples meet for Sunday brunch only to discover they are stuck in a house together as the world may be about to end.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:38

    Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist, preparing a thesis on criminal women. He chooses Camille Bliss as his subject of study and begins to visit her in prison for interviews. Camille became acquainted with trouble at a young age and justifies her actions by "fate-bets." She is currently in prison for allegedly murdering one of her lovers. As she tells Stanislas of her life and love affairs, his interest in her grows to more than just professional. Can he resist her charm?

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:09

    Chip Baskets wants to follow his dream of being a French clown—however, reality keeps interfering. Saddled with financial difficulties and facing an impenetrable language barrier, he moves back home to Bakersfield with high hopes. There, he is forced to confront his past while working as a rodeo clown and competing with his siblings for his mother's approval and affection.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:35

    Maya is living the ultimate fashionistas dream: she is working as a stylist for one of the French trend setters, in the capital of haute-couture: Paris. One of the IT girls of fashion, shes following her dreams until one night, when her life takes a sudden turn: shes being deported back to Morocco, after being stopped for over speeding, because her Visa expired some time ago. So in no more than 24 hours, shes deported back to her family and original country. The strong cultural shock and the judgmental differences are pushing the woman to obtain back her place in the city of dreams and her dreams, no matter the costs. But that doesn't mean she will have to return alone, as she finds other things also among her way back to the city.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:38

    Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:59

    The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:39

    A Chinese movie actress, in France to star in a remake of "Les Vampires", finds petty intrigues and clashing egos on the set.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    Abe is a man who is in his thirties and who lives with his parents. He works regretfully for his father while pursuing his hobby of collecting toys. Aware that his family doesn't think highly of him, he tries to spark a relationship with Miranda, who recently moved back home after a failed literary/academic career. Miranda agrees to marry Abe out of desperation, but things go awry.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    When a depressed woman is burglarized, she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking down the thieves alongside her obnoxious neighbor. But they soon find themselves dangerously out of their depth against a pack of degenerate criminals.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:56

    Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeois characters value: whether it's cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She's on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour attitude. When she becomes controlling and abusive, Bernie goes to great lengths to remove himself from her grasp.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryFrance

    Bastien, an ambitious young production assistant, catches the attention of Jean-Louis, a producer of high regard, and is granted a shot at his own television show.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, crime, music
    CountrySweden, France, Denmark
    Duration01:42

    A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:59

    A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:13

    Paris Fashion Week draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers. Follows the various storylines of these characters, centering around a murder investigation of a prominent fashion figure. Features an all-star cast.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA

    When word hits the street that a nearby elderly gentleman has a cache of old, rare, and very valuable mint condition comic books, rival comic book shop owners Raymond McGillicuddy (Donal Logue) and Norman Link (Michael Rapaport) both set out to be the first to buy them. But when the old man declines to sell, the former friends turn into enemies, and a friendly rivalry becomes tainted with greed and turns to murder.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:17

    A comedy about funny adventures of the group of French people during the summer vacation.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration01:46

    A Serious Man is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Matt and Karen have inconsiderate neighbours whose lawn sprinkler drowns their flowers. A feud errupts and a series of tit-for-tat actions develop and escalate.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrefantastic, comedy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    Struggling actor John Person agrees to drive a blue suitcase from Los Angeles to the small town of Baker, Calif., and hand it over to a mysterious cowboy in return for having his credit card debt of $27,000 paid off. Upon his arrival, John can't find the cowboy but receives an ominously head-shaped package he's supposed to hang onto. While waiting, John gets close to Ruthie, whose psychotic boyfriend, Randy, keeps threatening to kill him.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:30

    It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him. They travel along the northern bank of the Mediterranean to perform.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, adventure
    CountryFrance, USA
    Duration01:48

    A young American girl and a young French boy meet in Paris and fall in love, with the assistance of an old man and his stories.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration01:33

    The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is immediately put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions. It's love at first sight for all concerned followed by the men's hopeless efforts to disguise their feelings.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
    CountryFrance, Italy

    A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrefantastic, comedy
    CountryFrance, Canada
    Duration01:25

    A French comedy with comedians Eric & Ramzy made by Quentin Dupieux a.k.a. Mr. Oizo.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    A man who is being driven crazy by the noise in New York City decides to take vigilante action against it.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
    Duration01:46

    A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

    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: 8.1
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama
    CountryArgentina, Spain, France, United Kingdom
    Duration02:02

    Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
    Duration01:45

    A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
    CountryFrance, Italy, Luxembourg, USA
    Duration01:43

    A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance, Italy

    The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who've created this high-tech, terrifying little town.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

    A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy
    CountryFrance, USA
    Duration01:31

    A business man buys a house, but he has a hard time trying to get rid of its previous tenant, a dirty bum.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrehorror, comedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA

    Follow a small group of elderly “Peeping Toms” through the shadows and margins of an unfamiliar world. Crudely documented by the participants themselves, we follow the debased and shocking actions of a group of true sociopaths the likes of which have never been seen before. Inhabiting a world of broken dreams and beyond the limits of morality, they crash against a torn and frayed America.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:46

    A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryGreece, France, Canada, USA
    Duration01:33

    A nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast and her coach offer a service for hire wherein they stand in for dead people by appointment, hired by relatives, friends or colleagues of the deceased, to assist with the grieving process.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:26

    Smith, a typical young college student who likes partying and engaging in acts of random sex and debauchery, has been having some interesting dreams revolving around two gorgeous women -- and is shocked when he meets the dream girls in real life. Lorelei looks just like his fantasy brunette, while a mysterious red-haired girl being chased by assassins draws him into an international conspiracy. Or is it all just a drug-induced hallucination?

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance, Greece

    "Everything will be fine" the doctor promised Jo while she was giving birth to her first child. But, some forty years and four sons later, nothing is happening like it should be during this month of August: as she arrives on Greek soil to organize her traditional festival with her tribe, Jo learns that the latter has been cancelled, courtesy of the economic crisis. The hour seems to be tragic but the maternal instinct grows stronger, she is ready to do everything for the happiness of her sons. Between squabbles and blood and destiny blows, this summer will be like no other.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Japan, USA
    Duration01:33

    Nora Wilder (Parker Posey), a single, career woman works at a Manhattan boutique hotel where her excellent skills in guest relations lack in the romantic department. If it is not her loving and dominant mother (Gena Rowlands) attempting to set her up that consistently fail, she has her friend’s (Drea de Matteo) disastrous blind dates to rely on as a backup for further dismay. She's surrounded by friends who are all happily engaged or romantically involved and somehow, love escapes Nora -- until she meets an unusual Frenchman (Melvil Poupaud) who helps her discover life beyond her self-imposed boundaries.

    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.




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