Movies Like Cinématé !

If you liked Cinématé ! (2015), a movie directed by Gérard Courant, 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
Nouvelle Vague (2025)
★ 7.2/10
After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, young Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He gets Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, creating a treatment with Truffaut about a gangster couple.
2
The Goldman Case (2023)
★ 6.9/10
A second trial begins in November 1975 against French left-wing revolutionary Pierre Goldman, accused of several armed robberies and the death of two chemists.
3
Notre-Dame on Fire (2022)
★ 6.5/10
A film relating from the inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019.
4
The Round Up (2010)
★ 7.5/10
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
5
The Image Book (2018)
★ 6.3/10
In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the…
6
The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896)
★ 7.1/10
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and…
7
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019)
★ 6.9/10
The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.
8
The Flood (2024)
★ 6.4/10
1792. Louis XVI, his wife Marie Antoinette, and their children have been arrested and imprisoned in the Tour du Temple, a sinister chateau in Paris, awaiting their trial. Far from the splendour of Versailles, they are…
9
L'Argent (1928)
★ 7.1/10
Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.
10
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
★ 6.9/10
In Manhattan's Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves is shooting a screen test with various pairs of actors. It's a confrontation between a couple: he demands to know what's wrong, she challenges his…
11
Everything or Nothing (2012)
★ 7.3/10
The story of three men with a shared dream: James Bond franchise producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and Bond creator and author Ian Fleming. It’s the thrilling and inspiring narrative behind the longest…
12
The Rays and Shadows (2026)
★ 7.4/10
Jean and Otto, a French newspaperman and a young German Francophile, are fighting for peace in Europe. Jean’s daughter, Corinne, is launching a brilliant acting career in the film world, but war breaks out and France…
13
CQ (2001)
★ 5.9/10
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi…
14
Maestro (2014)
★ 6.1/10
Henry, a young actor, finds himself involved in a film by cinema superstar, Cédric Rovere. Charmed by his benevolence, feelings hitherto unknown are aroused, while Rovere, intrigued by Henry's dream, lives this shoot…
15
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
★ 6.8/10
A washed-up filmmaker gets a second chance at stardom when he discovers stunning peasant Maria Vargas dancing in a Madrid nightclub. Goaded by his producer, the director convinces Maria to screen test for, and then…
16
Jackass: Best and Last (2026)
★ 7.3/10
The fifth and final installment to Jackass franchise where the crew go on one last insane crusade.
17
Minions & Monsters (2026)
★ 7.6/10
This is the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed monsters onto the world and then banded together to try and save the…
18
Resistance (2020)
★ 7/10
The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
19
Show People (1928)
★ 7.1/10
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
20
Desire (2011)
★ 6.3/10
In a social context deteriorated by a countrywide economic crisis, the life of several people will be turned upside down after they meet Cécile, a character who symbolizes desire.