20 best movies like Textiles (2004)

List of the best movies like Textiles (2004): The Bare Necessity, Cookie, Lay the Favorite, The Angels' Share, Larry Crowne, C'est la vie!, Nicostratos the Pelican, The African Doctor, Neon Flesh, Le Havre.

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Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryFrance

Pierre Perdrix has been enjoying an enchanted though restless existence since the enigmatic Juliette Webb burst into his life. a stranger who landed in his family's unique world like a meteorite, and who by her presence alone will force this tight-knit microcosm to redefie their boundaries and finally begin to fully live their lives.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance

Adeline's Chinese housekeeper suddenly disappears, leaving behind a little boy who doesn't speak a word of French. Helped by her sister, she takes care of the child and proceeds to locate the mother.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
Duration01:30

A former stripper's talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy
Duration01:46

Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, France
Duration01:38

    When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his teacher.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryBelgium, Canada, France
    Duration02:30

    Max is a battle-weary veteran of the wedding-planning racket. His latest — and last — gig is a hell of a fête, involving stuffy period costumes for the caterers, a vain, hyper- sensitive singer who thinks he's a Gallic James Brown, and a morose, micromanaging groom determined to make Max's night as miserable as possible. But what makes the affair too bitter to endure is that Max's colleague and ostensible girlfriend, Joisette, seems to have written him off, coolly going about her professional duties while openly flirting with a much younger server. It's going to be a very long night… especially once the groom's aerial serenade gets underway.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, drama, family
    CountryFrance, Greece
    Duration01:28

    After his wife died a man refuses to go out and doesn't want to talk to his only son. Life has no meaning for him. One day his son finds a baby pelican and decides to leave the bird at home. Pelican helps the boy find his father again and revive him back to life ...

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography
    CountryFrance

    Seyolo Zantoko is a doctor from Congo who wants to get away from dictatorship and he is hired by the mayor of a small village in the north of France. The locals fear Seyolo and his family as they have never seen African people before, and Seyolo and his family struggle to adapt to this new life. But Seyolo is determined to succeed and to win the trust of the villagers.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountrySpain, France, Sweden, Argentina
    Duration01:38

    Hoping to earn his mother's respect, a young hustler-turned-businessman tries to open a brothel with his two useless buddies.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFinland, France, Germany
    Duration01:33

    Marcel Marx, a former bohemian and struggling author, has given up his literary ambitions and relocated to the port city Le Havre. He leads a simple life based around his wife Arletty, his favourite bar and his not too profitable profession as a shoeshiner. As Arletty suddenly becomes seriously ill, Marcel's path crosses with an underage illegal immigrant from Africa, who needs Marcel's help to hide from the police.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:22

    Jérôme Varenne, a French financier, lives and works in Shanghai with Chen-Li, his life and business partner. One day, during a short stay in Paris, while paying a call to his mother, he is very displeased to learn from her and his hated brother, that the family house in Ambray is going to be sold. Jerome decides to go to the town where he grew up to see what is going on. Little does he know how eventful his escapade will be. Little does he know that it will change his life from soup to nuts...

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:44

    Muriel Bayen, a divorced beautician and mother of two, loves to tell stories. She is a huge fan of this singer Vincent Lacroix, in fact she is a dedicated fan. One day Vincent knock on her door and ask for her help.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:27

    Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryNorway, France, Sweden, Denmark, USA
    Duration01:35

    One day in the life of Anders, a young recovering drug addict, who takes a brief leave from his treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old friends in Oslo.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:56

    Deneuve plays sassy grandmother Cathy who takes to the road after being betrayed by her lover and learning her business is on the verge of bankruptcy on the same day. During a weeklong odyssey across France, she spends time with a grandson she hardly knows and reconnects with her past as former Miss Brittany through a reunion for former beauty queens.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, Mexico, USA
    Duration02:31

    Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryFrance

    A comedy that follows the break-up of a French rock group.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:37

    Philippe Mars wants to please everyone. He wants to be a good father, a friendly ex-husband, a helpful colleague and an understanding brother. Unfortunately, his little world goes out of its planned orbit. His son becomes a hardcore vegetarian, his daughter a compulsive swot, whilst his sister exhibits giant paintings of their naked parents. At the office he must face the rampages of his mentally unstable colleague Jerôme who one night turns up at his door with a young woman in tow who has just been released from a clinic.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration02:00

    Based on a true story, the film is set in the summer of 1984 – when Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decides to raise money to support the families of the striking miners. But there is a problem - the union seems embarrassed to receive their support. However the activists are not deterred. They decide to ignore the union and go direct to the miners. They identify a mining village of Onllwyn, in the Dulais Valley in Wales, and later set off in a mini bus to make their donation in person. And so begins the extraordinary story of two seemingly alien communities who form a surprising and ultimately triumphant partnership.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance

    Jean left his hometown ten years ago. When his father falls ill, he comes back and reunites with his sister Juliette and his brother Jérémie. As seasons go by around their vineyard, they'll have to trust each other again.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
    Duration01:40

    Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator.




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