Top 20 movies like My Afternoons with Margueritte
Top 20 Movies like My Afternoons with Margueritte
- 1. Let's Be Friends
- 2. Mr. Frog
- 3. Knight of the TV-screen
- 4. The Proposition
- 5. Jour de Fête
- 6. Les Miserables
- 7. A Forbidden God
- 8. Love Me No More
- 9. Some Came Running
- 10. Welcome to New York
- 11. Thale
- 12. When Pigs Have Wings
- 13. Bay of Angels
- 14. Moliere
- 15. Enigma
- 16. The Perfect Date
- 17. Nice and Easy
- 18. The Clink of Ice
- 19. Bernie
- 20. The Lighthouse of the Orcas
1. Let's Be Friends (Je préfère qu'on reste amis...)
The two friends Claude and Serge are fundamentally different in their temperament. Similarities arise only when they try to have a relationship with a woman, because both fail equally. While Claude is simply too shy to even start a relationship, let alone meet a woman, Serge is too jumpy to have a relationship. Together they go in search of the great love in all sorts of curious situations, from the self-help group on speed dating to wedding celebrations of strangers - in the hunt for the right woman, they are no way too far.
It has an average vote of 5.4 on TMDB.
2. Mr. Frog (Meester Kikker)
A normal class, ordinary children and a regular school teacher. Or not. The lives of the children in Mr Frans' class are turned upside down when they discover that he sometimes turns into a frog. And Sita is so fond of her teacher that she wants to protect him at all costs from all those dangerous animals... Based on the novel by bestselling Dutch author Paul van Loon.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
3. Knight of the TV-screen (Gyula vitéz télen-nyáron)
This mocking criticism of public life and the media focuses on a TV series. The protagonist of the film, depicting the battles fought for Hungarian castles during the Ottoman occupation, is chosen to be the amateur Prohászka Feri, a worker in the beer-factory.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
4. The Proposition
Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and Eleanor Barret. Meanwhile Eleanor and Arthur desperately want to have a child, but Arthur is sterile, so they hire Harvard law student Roger Martin to impregnate Eleanor, but unfortunately Roger falls in love with her.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
5. Jour de Fête (Jour de fête)
Jour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French mailman who frequently interrupts his duties to converse with the local inhabitants, as well as inspect the traveling fair that has come to his small community. Influenced by too much wine and a newsreel account of rapid transportation methods used by the United States postal system, he goes to hilarious lengths to speed the delivery of mail while aboard his bicycle.
It has an average vote of 7.095 on TMDB.
6. Les Miserables (Les Misérables)
In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin, is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
7. A Forbidden God (Un Dios prohibido)
August 1936, the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. 51 members of the Claretian community of Barbastro are martyred, die for their faith. The film recounts the last weeks of his life, since they are held until they are finally shot. During that time, they perform various writings they talk about their situation, of his fellow captives, people who saw them. These writings have been the basic testimony used to narrate this real fact in film version.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
8. Love Me No More (Deux jours à tuer)
Antoine Méliot is around 40 years old and has everything he needs to be happy: a beautiful wife, two adorable children, friends he can count on, a pretty house in the Yvelines and money. But one day he decides to ruin everything in one weekend.
It has an average vote of 7.088 on TMDB.
9. Some Came Running
A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.
It has an average vote of 6.954 on TMDB.
10. Welcome to New York
George Devereaux, a prominent French politician, lives a life of debauchery, until he is arrested in New York for sexually assaulting a hotel maid.
It has an average vote of 5.215 on TMDB.
11. Thale (Thale)
Norwegian folklore turns out to be real when Leo and Elvis encounter a girl called Thale in a basement. A regular cleaning job turns into a struggle for survival, while they're trying to figure out what or who Thale is. Could Thale be a huldra? A seductive forest spirit who appears from the front to be a beautiful young woman, but who also has a cow's tale and whose back appears to be like a hollowed out tree. The huldra has been known to offer rewards to those who satisfy them sexually, while death to those who fail to do so and are also prone to stealing human babies.
It has an average vote of 5.4 on TMDB.
12. When Pigs Have Wings (Le Cochon de Gaza)
After a tempest, fishermen do not find only fish in their nets. That is what happens to Jafaar, a poor fisherman who lives poorly in Gaza. And what he hauls in is really upsetting: imagine that, a pig! An unclean animal judged impure not only by the Faith of Islam but also by the Jewish religion. Determined to get rid of the animal, Jafaar tries desperately to sell it, first to a United Nations official, then to a Jewish colony where Yelena raises pigs not for their meat but for security reasons. Of course, going unnoticed in the company of a "forbidden" animal, among his Palestinian brothers, past Israeli soldiers and under the scrutiny of Islamic fundamentalists is no bed of roses and a series of misadventures await Jafaar.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
13. Bay of Angels (La Baie des Anges)
A bank clerk is drawn into the risky world of a gorgeous gambling addict.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
14. Moliere (Molière)
Molière, a down-and-out actor-cum-playwright up to his ears in debt. When the wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt so that Molière's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise, hilarity ensues.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
15. Enigma
The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.
It has an average vote of 6.358 on TMDB.
16. The Perfect Date (L'Amour, c'est mieux à deux)
Michel dreams of a perfect meeting with the woman of his dreams, entirely due to chance, as his parents and grandparents experienced. Vincent, Michel's contrast, is completely different. He is more the man of the direct approach and he follows his...! The two childhood friends Michel and Vincent, with completely opposite views when it comes to women, soon discover the limits of their respective techniques when they meet Angèle and Nathalie.
It has an average vote of 5.6 on TMDB.
17. Nice and Easy (Libre et assoupi)
Sebastian has one ambition in life: to do nothing. His horizon is his couch. His life he does not want to live but contemplate. But today, if you do nothing - You are nothing. So driven by his two roommates, that chain internships and odd jobs, decided to Anna and not quite decided Bruno, Sebastien will have to - A little.
It has an average vote of 6.582 on TMDB.
18. The Clink of Ice (Le Bruit des glaçons)
An alcoholic writer is visited by an incarnation of his cancer.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
19. Bernie (Bernie)
Bernie, a 30 years old orphan, decides to leave his orphanage and find his parents. After an investigation, he meets Marion, a young heroin addict and falls in love with her. He believes that his family was victim of a plot and this is why they deserted him.
It has an average vote of 6.904 on TMDB.
20. The Lighthouse of the Orcas (El faro de las orcas)
A mother travels to Patagonia with her autistic son with the hope that a ranger and a pod of wild orcas can help him find an emotional connection.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
