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Movies Like Potiche

If you liked Potiche (1983), a comedy movie directed by Dominique Giuliani and Pierre Mondy, 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. 1Trophy Wife

    Trophy Wife (2010)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    In 1977 France, tightfisted factory owner Robert Pujol is so shocked when his workers strike for higher wages that he suffers a heart attack. His acquiescent wife, Suzanne, whose father had founded the factory, takes…

  2. 2My Dog Stupid

    My Dog Stupid (2019)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy

    Henri is a middle-aged writer with fading inspiration who has published nothing worthy of note in years. Feeling increasingly misunderstood by his wife and four grown up deadbeat kids, he dreams of running away to…

  3. 3No Filter

    No Filter (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    Beatrice celebrates with her family the release of her book: she tells about the accident of her husband Frederic. He became blind and without filter - always so funny and seductive, he is totally unpredictable. But…

  4. 4Riviera Revenge

    Riviera Revenge (2024)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy

    François Marsault, a war veteran, makes the most of his retirement alongside his wife Annie. Authoritarian and ruthless, François rules his family with an iron fist — but when he discovers that his esteemed wife…

  5. 5The Women on the 6th Floor

    The Women on the 6th Floor (2011)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

    Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of two arrogant teenage boys, currently in a boarding school. The…

  6. 6Freedom-Oleron

    Freedom-Oleron (2001)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    39 years old Jacques Monot is tired from the same vacation he and his family have every year so he decides to buy a boat.

  7. 7Louise-Michel

    Louise-Michel (2008)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    In this radical and endearing black comedy, a group of retrenched female factory workers decide to pool their compensation money… and hire a hit man to liquidate their boss.

  8. 8Copacabana

    Copacabana (2010)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy

    Babou seems to be able to shrug off anything. Real jobs, husbands, responsibilities, who needs them? But when she finds out that her own daughter is too ashamed of her to invite her to her wedding, she decides to make…

  9. 9Rebels

    Rebels (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    Sandra, a young woman forced to leave the south of France to flee a violent husband. Without attachment, she returned to Boulogne-sur-Mer, the city of her childhood which she left almost 15 years ago. She finds her…

  10. 10The Nannies

    The Nannies (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    Angèle, a thirty-something from Ivory Coast, always cope thanks to the gift of gab and audacity. To escape from a bunch of dangerous criminals, she becomes a nanny in the uptown Paris, hired by Hélène, the single mom…

  11. 11Forced Vacation

    Forced Vacation (2025)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy

    Following a booking error, two families who are complete opposites, as well as a somewhat snobbish publisher and the influencer he wants to publish, are forced to share a sublime vacation home. The culture clash is…

  12. 12Love Song for Tough Guys

    Love Song for Tough Guys (2021)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    In a port city, the lives of a few isolated people, used to violence, are strongly influenced by the love they feel for each other. Choices, envy, love and tenderness are the driving forces that help these characters…

  13. 13Jealous

    Jealous (2017)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy

    A divorced teacher suddenly becomes jealous of everyone, including her daughter, friends and neighbors.

  14. 14Tamara

    Tamara (2016)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy

    Tamara, 15, complexed with her curves, decided its entry into second to get rid of the label of "big". To shut up the gossip, she made a bet with her best friend to go out with the first boy who pass the classroom…

  15. 15Most Promising Young Actress

    Most Promising Young Actress (2000)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    Yvon Rance, who runs a hair salon in Brittany, only wants his beloved teenaged daughter Laetita to be happy, something he believes she'll be able to achieve by completing high school and then following in her father's…

  16. 16The Speech

    The Speech (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy

    Meet Adrien! He's 35. He's stuck in a mid-life crisis. He's neurotic and hypochondriac. Tonight he's stuck in an endless family dinner and his girlfriend is not answering his texts. On top of that, his dumb…

  17. 17A Friendly Tale...

    A Friendly Tale... (2020)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy

    Lea and her husband Marc have known Francis and his wife Karine for a very long time. Over the years, each one of them has been assigned a specific role. The balance and dynamic of the group is blown up when Lea…

  18. 18Duplex

    Duplex (2003)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!

  19. 19The Brats

    The Brats (2013)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    Newly engaged, Thomas meets his future father-in-law Gilbert, who has been married for 30 years to Suzanne. Disillusioned Gilbert is convinced that his marriage has meant he's missed out on life. He persuades Thomas…

  20. 20It Boy

    It Boy (2013)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    38-year-old Alice has everything to become the next editor-in-chief of Rebelle magazine except for her uptight image. But when the young and charming Balthazar, barely 20, crosses Alice's path, she realizes that he…

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