Movies Like Beneath the Rooftops of Paris

If you liked Beneath the Rooftops of Paris (2007), a movie directed by Hiner Saleem, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Wakefield (2017)
★ 6.1/10
A man's nervous breakdown causes him to leave his wife and live in his attic for several months.
2
Sorry Angel (2018)
★ 6.9/10
At once an intimate chronicle of a romance and a sprawling portrait of life in early 1990s France following the intertwining journeys of Jacques, a worldly Parisian writer, and Arthur, a curious, carefree and…
3
The Tenant (1976)
★ 7.6/10
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
4
Henry Poole Is Here (2008)
★ 5.9/10
Henry Poole abandons his fiancée and family business to spend what he believes are his remaining days alone. The discovery of a 'miracle' by a nosy neighbor ruptures his solitude and restores his faith in life.
5
Four Nights of a Dreamer (1972)
★ 7.1/10
Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.
6
Good Grief (2023)
★ 6.2/10
When his husband unexpectedly dies, Marc's world shatters, sending him and his two best friends on a soul-searching trip to Paris that reveals some hard truths they each needed to face.
7
The Lovers of Montparnasse (1958)
★ 6.9/10
Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial…
8
Private Fears in Public Places (2006)
★ 6.4/10
Seven lonely lives in Paris: a middle-aged estate agent who believes a colleague is sending messages in video tapes she loans him; his co-worker whose Bible is close at hand in times of stress; her late-night charge…
9
Paulette (2012)
★ 6.4/10
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.
10
One Fine Morning (2022)
★ 6.4/10
With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks…
11
Lovely, Still (2009)
★ 6.6/10
A holiday fable that tells the story of an elderly man discovering love for the first time.
12
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
★ 6.8/10
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
13
Someone, Somewhere (2019)
★ 6.4/10
Rémy and Mélanie live next door to each other in Paris but have never met. The two thirty-year-old Parisians search for connections online, but never have much success. Falling deeper into loneliness and depression…
14
Nino (2025)
★ 7.3/10
Nino is a young man on a journey to reconnect with the world and himself in the streets of Paris, following the suggestion of his doctors. In three days, he will face a major challenge.
15
Our Friend (2019)
★ 7.2/10
After learning that his terminally ill wife has six months to live, a man welcomes the support of his best friend who moves into their home to help out.
16
See You Up There (2017)
★ 7.8/10
In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageous act also binds the lives of two soldiers who have nothing more in…
17
District B13 (2004)
★ 6.8/10
Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.
18
It's Only the End of the World (2016)
★ 7.2/10
Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.
19
2 Hearts (2020)
★ 7.2/10
When illness strikes two people who are polar opposites, life and death bring them together in surprising ways.
20
Three Colors: Blue (1993)
★ 7.6/10
The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other…