Top 20 movies like The Green Ray
Top 20 Movies like The Green Ray
- 1. Boyfriends and Girlfriends
- 2. A Summer's Tale
- 3. Inside the Living Body
- 4. Attraction
- 5. Les Enfants Terribles
- 6. Offside
- 7. Friends and Strangers
- 8. The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque
- 9. Retablo
- 10. In a Glass Cage
- 11. Beautiful Lies
- 12. All About Actresses
- 13. Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
- 14. Full Moon in Paris
- 15. Céline and Julie Go Boating
- 16. Decalogue VI
- 17. Last and First Men
- 18. A Tale of Winter
- 19. Taipei Story
- 20. Shadows
1. Boyfriends and Girlfriends (L'Ami de mon amie)
Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Léa, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Léa is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Léa's handsome and witty friend Alexandre, but is tongue-tied whenever she meets him. Léa goes on holiday and Blanche, still smitten with the dashing Alexandre, begins to get to get know Fabien.
It has an average vote of 7.02 on TMDB.
2. A Summer's Tale (Conte d'été)
A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who fancies him. Thus the quiet young lad finds he is having to do some tricky juggling in territory new to him.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
3. Inside the Living Body
Take a fascinating journey inside the bizarre world of a living human being with this compelling documentary from National Geographic, where microscopic cameras and other state-of-the-art technologies reveal perspectives that will blow your mind. Tracking the body of a female from infancy to old age, viewers will observe the digestion of a meal, the development of the cardiac system and other mesmerizing aspects of the body's inner workings.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
4. Attraction (Nerosubianco)
A married woman's journey through the psychedelic English youth scene awakens her to the carnal offerings of an African-American man.
It has an average vote of 5.053 on TMDB.
5. Les Enfants Terribles (Les Enfants terribles)
Elisabeth and her brother Paul live isolated from much of the world after Paul is injured in a snowball fight. As a coping mechanism, the two conjure up a hermetic dream of their own making. Their relationship, however, isn't exactly wholesome. Jealousy and a malevolent undercurrent intrude on their fantasy when Elisabeth invites the strange Agathe to stay with them -- and Paul is immediately attracted to her.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
6. Offside (آفساید)
During the 2006 World Cup qualifying match between Iran and Bahrain, numerous young women are caught and rounded up for dressing as men so they could gain access to the game. Guarded by several soldiers in a holding pen, the women attempt to keep updated on the score.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
7. Friends and Strangers
Friends and Strangers follows two middle class wanderers in a dryly comic exploration of inner Sydney.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
8. The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque (L'Arbre, le Maire et la Médiathèque)
The socialist mayor of a small village in France dreams of building an arts center but he runs up against some opposition.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
9. Retablo (Retablo)
Segundo sees silence as his only option for dealing with his father Noé’s secret. The 14-year-old lives with his parents in a village high up in the mountains. Noé is a respected artisan and Segundo’s role model. With loving eye for detail, he artfully crafts altarpieces for church and homes, and is preparing his son to follow in his footsteps. But cracks form in their tight bond.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
10. In a Glass Cage (Tras el cristal)
Klaus, a Nazi doctor who used his position as a means to molest young boys, escapes to Spain after the war and returns to his depraved ways. Driven mad by his inability to control his pedophilic urges, Klaus tries to kill himself, but fails and ends up completely incapacitated in an iron lung. When a mysterious teenager named Angelo arrives at his home claiming to be a nurse, Klaus happily hires the boy as his new attendant – a decision he soon regrets.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
11. Beautiful Lies (De vrais mensonges)
A hairdresser forwards a passionate love letter to her widowed mother.
It has an average vote of 6.061 on TMDB.
12. All About Actresses (Le Bal des actrices)
While shooting a documentary about all kinds of actresses, the director falls for one of them.
It has an average vote of 5.926 on TMDB.
13. Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle)
Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters and relation to the world of these two friends.
It has an average vote of 7.42 on TMDB.
14. Full Moon in Paris (Les Nuits de la pleine lune)
Louise is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a pied-à-terre in the city so she can experience independence.
It has an average vote of 6.759 on TMDB.
15. Céline and Julie Go Boating (Céline et Julie vont en bateau)
A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives pre-empted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality. An undisputed classic of the French New Wave, Jacques Rivette’s Celine and Julie Go Boating is a delightful movie about the spiritual journey of a pair of young women, told with a playful approach to the cinematic form. A masterpiece of cinematic creativity, Rivette, the same mind behind 1969’s L’amour fou, effortlessly draws the viewer into the whimsical world of the titular protagonists.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
16. Decalogue VI (Dekalog, sześć)
A teenage postal worker, Tomek, routinely spies on his older neighbor Magda, a sexually liberated artist who lives in the apartment across the courtyard from his. As their private worlds merge, fascination turns to obsession, and the line between love and curiosity becomes violently blurred.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
17. Last and First Men
As the end approaches inexorably, the last humans, living millions of years into the future, send a message to the humanity of the present that is both a plea for help and a warning, but also an epic tale of evolution, decline and hope.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
18. A Tale of Winter (Conte d'hiver)
Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male companionship she oscillates between hairdresser Maxence and the intellectual Loic, but seems unable to commit to either as the memory of Charles and what might have been hangs over everything.
It has an average vote of 7.049 on TMDB.
19. Taipei Story (青梅竹馬)
A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.
It has an average vote of 7.456 on TMDB.
20. Shadows
The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.
It has an average vote of 6.944 on TMDB.
