Top 20 movies like 50ft Or So...
Top 20 Movies like 50ft Or So...
- 1. Crooks in Clover
- 2. The Good Girls
- 3. Baby Face
- 4. Ghost Dance
- 5. The Sucker
- 6. The Associate
- 7. Le Deuxième Souffle
- 8. The Sun Also Rises
- 9. Les Siffleurs
- 10. Olivia
- 11. Just the Ticket
- 12. Agonies
- 13. Bob le Flambeur
- 14. Darling
- 15. Diplomacy
- 16. We'll Never Have Paris
- 17. La Vie de Bohème
- 18. In My Room
- 19. Not Here to Be Loved
- 20. Munich
1. Crooks in Clover (Les Tontons flingueurs)
An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.
It has an average vote of 7.742 on TMDB.
2. The Good Girls (Les bonnes femmes)
Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams.
It has an average vote of 6.227 on TMDB.
3. Baby Face
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
4. Ghost Dance
Through the experiences of two women in Paris and London, Ghost Dance offers an analysis of the complexity of our conceptions of ghosts, memory and the past. The film focuses on the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, who observes, 'I think cinema, when it's not boring, is the art of letting ghosts come back.' He also says that 'memory is the past that has never had the form of the present.'
It has an average vote of 5.4 on TMDB.
5. The Sucker (Le Corniaud)
In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
6. The Associate (L'Associé)
An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father -- although no one has ever seen him. To regain control, the man decides to "kill" his imaginary partner and is arrested for the murder.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
7. Le Deuxième Souffle (Le Deuxième Souffle)
A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
8. The Sun Also Rises
A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920's France and Spain.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
9. Les Siffleurs (Les Siffleurs)
Young actors drift around Paris looking for job opportunities in pursuit of their happiness. The Finnish film, made with a French cast, follows the paths signaled by nouvelle vague and cinéma vérité.
10. Olivia (Olivia)
"Olivia" captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress, Mlle. Julie, and through this screen of love observes the tense romance between Mlle. Julie and the other head of the school, Mlle. Cara, in its final months.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
11. Just the Ticket
Gary Starke is one of the best ticket scalpers in New York City. His girlfriend, Linda, doesn't approve of his criminal lifestyle, though, and dumps him when she gets the opportunity to study cooking in Paris. Gary realizes that he has to give up scalping if he has any chance of winning her back. But before he does, he wants to cash out on one last big score. He gets his chance when the pope announces he'll be performing Easter Mass at Yankee Stadium.
It has an average vote of 5.442 on TMDB.
12. Agonies
Angoroj was the first feature film to be produced entirely in Esperanto. . At the start of the 1960s Mahé, a professional photographic and cinematic expert, invested in the production of the first fictional film in Esperanto. Using a scenario by Mahé himself, the actors of the Internacia Arta Teatro presented a crime story, set in the Parisian periphery of petty thieves and cheats. Other notable people who played parts in the film included Schwartz , Gaston Waringhien and many from the environs of the contemporary Paris, including a very young Michel Duc-Goninaz.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
13. Bob le Flambeur (Bob le flambeur)
In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling -- and winning. He is kind, classy and well-liked by virtually everyone in town, including police inspector Ledru. However, when Bob's luck turns sour, he begins to lose friends and makes the most desperate gamble of his life: to rob the Deauville casino during Grand Prix weekend, when the vaults are full. Unfortunately, Bob soon learns that the game is rigged and the cops are on to him.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
14. Darling
The swinging London, early sixties. Beautiful but shallow, Diana Scott is a professional advertising model, a failed actress, a vocationally bored woman, who toys with the affections of several men while gaining fame and fortune.
It has an average vote of 6.681 on TMDB.
15. Diplomacy (Diplomatie)
The night of August 24, 1944. The fate of Paris is in the hands of General von Choltitz, governor of Grand Paris, who is preparing, on Hitler’s orders, to blow up the French capital. The descendent of a long line of Prussian military men, the general has never had any hesitation when it came to obeying orders. This is what’s on Swedish consul Raoul Nordling’s mind as he takes the secret staircase that leads to General von Choltitz’s suite at the Hôtel Meurice. The bridges on the Seine and the major monuments of Paris are mined with explosives, ready to be detonated. Armed with all the weapons of diplomacy, the consul will try to convince the general not to follow Hitler’s order of destruction.
It has an average vote of 7.012 on TMDB.
16. We'll Never Have Paris
Quinn, a neurotic man, is diagnosed with a harmless eye condition and soon after his life spirals out of control. He second-guesses his plans to propose to his longtime girlfriend, Devon, after his beautiful coworker, Kelsey, confesses that she has a crush on him. After a conversation with his best friend, Jameson, he clumsily tries to explain his doubts to Devon, but his possible proposal turns into a break-up. When Devon flees to Paris, he follows her in a last-ditch effort to win back "the one."
It has an average vote of 4.908 on TMDB.
17. La Vie de Bohème (La Vie de Bohème)
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.
It has an average vote of 7.527 on TMDB.
18. In My Room (In My Room)
Made during confinement, "In My Room" plunges us into the poignant story of a woman at the twilight of her life, through recordings of the director's deceased grandmother. Living rooms become stages where life is performed. Windows become portals to the lives of others.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
19. Not Here to Be Loved (Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé)
Jean-Claude Delsart, a 50 years-old bailiff, with his worn-out smile and heart, abandoned a long time ago the idea that life could give him pleasures. Until the day, he dares to push the doors of a tango lesson...
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
20. Munich
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
It has an average vote of 7.152 on TMDB.