Movies Like Céline and Julie Go Boating

If you liked Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974), a comedy and drama movie directed by Jacques Rivette, 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
Haunted Mansion (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama
A woman and her son enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters.
2
La Vénus électrique (2026)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and comedy
A painter in 1928 Paris, unable to work since his wife’s death, unknowingly participates in fake spiritualist shows staged by a carnival worker. As he regains his inspiration, she falls in love with the man she is…
3
Beetlejuice (1988)
★ 7.4/10Also fantasy and comedy
A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.
4
Dark Shadows (2012)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and fantasy
Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.
5
Unicorn Store (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and drama
A woman named Kit moves back to her parent's house, where she receives a mysterious invitation that would fulfill her childhood dreams.
6
Bazaar (Murder in the Building) (2026)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and drama
Misanthropic novelist François writes gripping crime stories – “Agatha Christie meets The Scarlet Pimpernel” – but outside of the swashbuckling imaginary world of his Marquis la Rose-novels, life is far from thrilling…
7
Daaaaaalí! (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and fantasy
A young French journalist repeatedly meets iconic surrealist artist Salvador Dalí for a documentary project that never came to be.
8
Three Colors: White (1994)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and drama
Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business…
9
Drop Dead Fred (1991)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and fantasy
An unhappy housewife gets a lift from the return of her imaginary childhood friend, Drop Dead Fred.
10
The Crime is Mine (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and drama
In 1930s Paris, Madeleine, a pretty, young, penniless, and talentless actress, is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by her best friend, Pauline, a young, unemployed lawyer, she is acquitted on the grounds…
11
A Thousand Words (2012)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and comedy
Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack’s life comes…
12
Mr. K (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and fantasy
Mr. K, a traveling magician, finds himself in a Kafkaesque nightmare when he can’t find the exit of his hotel. His attempts to get out only pull him deeper, entangling him further with the hotel and its curious…
13
Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and fantasy
Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has…
14
The 6th Man (1997)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasy and drama
A college athlete returns from the dead to help his brother's basketball team win the NCAA title.
15
The Addams Family (1991)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and fantasy
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to…
16
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and fantasy
An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
17
The Monster Squad (1987)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and fantasy
Count Dracula returns to the world of humans accompanied by Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Gillman. The uglies are in search of a powerful amulet that will grant them the ability to rule the…
18
The Good Witch (2008)
★ 7.1/10Also fantasy and drama
A mysterious woman comes in to town and inhabits the local haunted mansion, making everyone wonder if she's a witch or "The Grey Lady".
19
Two Tickets to Greece (2023)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama
As teenagers, Blandine and Magalie were inseparable. Years passed and they lost sight of each other. As their paths cross again, they decide to take the trip together that they have always dreamed of. Direction Greece…
20
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and comedy
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine…