Top 20 movies like The First Day of the Rest of Your Life

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life

A sprawling drama centered on five key days in a family's life.

Le Premier Jour du reste de ta vie is of 1 hour(s) and 54 minute(s). It is Produced By:  Mandarin Film, StudioCanal, TPS Star, Canal+, France 2 Cinéma. It was released on 2008-07-23. It has the tagline: This family is your family It has an average vote of 7.495 on TMDB.

Genres: Drama

1. A Happy Event (Un heureux événement)

A Happy Event

She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn't anyone warn me? Why doesn't anyone ever talk about this?" Un heureux événement, or an intimate view of motherhood, sincere and with no taboos.

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

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2. The Names of Love (Le Nom des gens)

The Names of Love

Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn't hesitate to sleep with those who don't agree with her to convert them to her cause - which is a lot of people, as all right-leaning people are concerned. Generally, it works pretty well. Until the day she meets Arthur Martin, a discreet forty-something who doesn't like taking risks. She imagines that with a name like that, he's got to be slightly fascist. But names are deceitful and appearances deceiving.

It has an average vote of 7.326 on TMDB.

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3. The Children of the Marshland (Les enfants du marais)

The Children of the Marshland

The film is set in Marais, a quiet region along the banks of Loire river in 1918. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly children. Garris lives alone with his recollections of World War I trenches. Their daily life consists of seasonal work and visits from their two pals: Tane, the local train conductor and Amédée, a dreamer and voracious reader of classics.

It has an average vote of 7.11 on TMDB.

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4. The Merry Widow (Enfin veuve)

The Merry Widow

Anne-Marie lives an easy life with Gilbert, a rich plastic surgeon: a beautiful house, a doggy, a cleaning lady, expensive furniture, the lot. Not so easy in fact when she thinks twice. She does not get on with her husband any longer. She gets on his nerves and he does not attract her any longer. She feels good only when she jogs on the beach and ... when she is the arms of her lover, Leo. One day, Gilbert gets killed in a car accident. Good news, since she will be able to live with Leo. The trouble is her well-meaning family settle at her villa with a view to supporting the "poor widow" morally. Anne-Marie just cannot admit she is not distressed at all, especially to her son Christophe. She is now even more of a prisoner than when Gilbert was alive...

It has an average vote of 4.916 on TMDB.

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5. The French Revolution (La Révolution française)

The French Revolution

A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the story from 1789 until August 10, 1792 . The second part carries the story through the end of the terror in 1794, including the deaths by guillotine of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Danton, and Desmoulins.

It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.

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6. It All Starts Today (Ça commence aujourd'hui)

It All Starts Today

In a mining town which has been blighted by economic downturns, an elementary school headmaster struggles to obtain social services on behalf of his students.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

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7. Wonderful World

Wonderful World

Ben Singer is a failed children's folk singer, a career proofreader, a less-than-extraordinary weekend dad, and perhaps the most negative man alive. Floundering in all aspects of his life, Ben's only comfort comes from regular chess games and friendly debates on game theory with his Senegalese roommate Ibou. When Ibou is suddenly struck ill, Ben's pessimistic worldview seems unequivocally confirmed. It takes an extended visit from Ibou's sister Khadi for Ben to realize that cynicism may be all a matter of perspective.

It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.

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8. The Man of My Life (L'Homme de sa vie)

The Man of My Life

A man vacationing in the country with his wife and children finds ideas he has of himself unexpectedly challenged.

It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.

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9. Angels in Fast Motion (Nordkraft)

Angels in Fast Motion

The unflinching tale of Maria, Allan and Steso, who are struggling for survival. Maria is a pusher frau, wandering restlessly among addicts, abusers and bikers in a relentless search for love. Allan has just returned from an ill-fated trip across the Pacific and must reclaim his life and stay clean, but ghosts from his past return to haunt him. Steso, the intellectual, god-forsaken and prophetic cynic, does his utmost to unite the two polar opposites that give meaning to his life: his girl and drugs. All three try desperately to make some sense of the madness, but how do you find meaning in the chaos that is life? And how do you find love if you can't recognize it?

It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.

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10. Fuck My Weddin‪g‬ (Qué pena tu boda)

Fuck My Weddin‪g‬

When Angela gets pregnant, Javier proposes to her, but Javier's new intern wants more than his guidance.

It has an average vote of 4.7 on TMDB.

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11. Restless (Levottomat)

Restless

Ari, a paramedic, is a chronic womanizer; he makes it a point of pride to never sleep with the same woman twice, and his nights are a long series of brazen one-night stands. But when Ari meets Tiina, something unexpected happens – he falls in love.

It has an average vote of 5.398 on TMDB.

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12. Rumba (Rumba)

Rumba

Teachers in a rural school, happy couple Fiona and Dom have a common passion: Latin Dancing. One night, after a glorious dance competition, they have a car accident and see their lives turn upside down. Rumba or how optimism and humour can overcome fatality!

It has an average vote of 5.857 on TMDB.

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13. Caught in the Act

Caught in the Act

After de-bunking her philandering spouse's deceptions, Jodie Colter accidentally stumbles onto the murder case of a former homecoming queen. She quickly finds that her natural snooping skills, honed on catching her cheating husband, can be put to even better use by bringing a killer to justice. With her children in tow, she pieces together the clues that prove the homecoming queen's canny lawyer husband is a murderer.

It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.

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14. Lost and Found (Je promets d'être sage)

Lost and Found

Franck wants a quiet life and a fresh start. After 15 years of a failed theatre career, he finds a seemingly perfect job: museum guard. But that is before he meets Sybille, his neurotic colleague.

It has an average vote of 4.6 on TMDB.

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15. Des lendemains qui chantent (Des lendemains qui chantent)

Des lendemains qui chantent

Olivier and Leo, two brothers that are moved to Paris and that life has separated ... If the first sees himself as a journalist without concessions, the second is an ambitious and opportunistic communication adviser. Noémie, a charming presidential adviser, can not, over the years, choose between them. To the amusement of Sylvain, their childhood friend, who made his fortune in Pink Minitel, their destinies intersect over 20 years, are intertwined, in a funny epic, tender and nostalgic, in the 80 / 90.

It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.

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16. The Discreet (La Discrète)

The Discreet

There is an author who has been dumped by his girlfriend and has no inspiration for a next novel. In an attempt to find a solution to both crises, he, along with his publisher friend, decides to seduce a young woman with the singular purpose of keeping a diary of the seduction and then dump her before publishing the book about it. Unfortunately he falls in love with her.

It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.

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17. The Nun (La Religieuse)

The Nun

Suzanne Simonin describes her life of suffering in letters. As a young woman she is sent to a convent against her will. Since her parents cannot afford the dowry required for a marriage befitting her rank they decide she must instead become a nun. Although a kind and understanding Mother Superior helps her to learn the convent’s daily routine, Suzanne’s desire for freedom remains unabated. When the Mother Superior dies, Suzanne finds herself faced with reprisals, humiliation and harassment at the hands of the new Abbess and the other Sisters. For many years, Suzanne is subjected to bigotry and religious fanaticism.

It has an average vote of 6.358 on TMDB.

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18. I Do (Prête-moi ta main)

I Do

Life is easy for 43-year-old Luis, a happy single guy, fulfilled in his job of star nose with a perfume creation company, cosseted by his mother and five sisters. It could have lasted for a whole life, but fed up with mollycoddling and helping him, his mother and sisters decide it's time he got married, and the sooner the better!

It has an average vote of 6.421 on TMDB.

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19. 21 Nights with Pattie (21 nuits avec Pattie)

21 Nights with Pattie

During the height of summer, Caroline, a forty-year-old Parisian and mother, arrives in a small village in the south of France. She must hastily organize the funeral of her mother, a flighty lawyer, whom she barely used to see. Caroline is welcomed by Pattie, who likes to talk about her love affairs with the local men to anyone who'll listen. Then, while the whole valley gets ready for the traditional mid-summer dance, Caroline's mother's corpse mysteriously disappears...

It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.

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20. Untouchable

Untouchable

The inside story of the rise and fall of Harvey Weinstein reveals how, over decades, he acquired and protected his power even when scandal threatened to engulf him. Former colleagues and accusers detail the method and consequences of his alleged abuse, hoping for justice and also to inspire change.

It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.

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