Movies Like Faire un effort

If you liked Faire un effort (1969), a movie directed by Ben Vautier, 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
Cosmic Ray (1962)
★ 6.4/10
Experimental short uses Ray Charles' “What'd I Say” as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and newsreels of atomic bomb explosions.
2
A Movie (1958)
★ 6.5/10
Bruce Conner's landmark experimental film consisting entirely of found footage edited to a new score.
3
Competition (2015)
★ 6.1/10
Two minions working in a bomb lab get competitive.
4
Beau Hunks (1931)
★ 6.8/10
Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.
5
Black Mirror (2011)
★ 7.8/10
A nameless drifter navigates a barren landscape punctuated by satellite dishes, radio towers and droning airplanes. Stopping periodically in anonymous hotel rooms, she makes attempts to connect to an unidentified…
6
Anemic Cinema (1926)
★ 6.2/10
A spiral design spins. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French…
7
Reservoir Dogs (1991)
★ 7.5/10
Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.
8
Lux Æterna (2020)
★ 6.1/10
Charlotte Gainsbourg agrees to play a witch condemned to be burned at the stake in the first film directed by Béatrice Dalle. But the chaotic production, technical problems, and psychotic breakdowns gradually plunge…
9
Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora (2010)
★ 6.5/10
The Making-of James Cameron's Avatar. It shows interesting parts of the work on the set.
10
Mickey's Steam Roller (1934)
★ 6.4/10
While streetworker Mickey romances Minnie, Mickey's nephews Morty and Ferdie take control of his steamroller and it's full speed ahead on a very destructive ride.
11
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…
12
All Wet (1927)
★ 6.1/10
Oswald takes a job as a lifeguard to keep an eye on Miss Rabbit, who in turn stages a boating accident hoping Oswald will come to save her.
13
Our Wife (1931)
★ 7.1/10
Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and run away to…
14
The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
★ 7/10
A group of dated appliances, finding themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold, decide to seek out their eight year old 'master'.
15
The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
★ 7.7/10
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts…
16
42 Up (1999)
★ 7.6/10
Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
17
Aquaman: Heroines of Atlantis (2019)
★ 6.2/10
Amber Heard and Nicole Kidman discuss their characters Mera and Atlanna.
18
Uncle Yanco (1967)
★ 7.2/10
While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda, tipped by her friend Tom Luddy, gets to know a relative she had never heard of before, Jean Varda, nicknamed "Yanco". This…
19
Memorable (2019)
★ 8.2/10
Aging painter Louis and his wife Michelle struggle to cope with Louis' advancing dementia.
20
Swapped (2026)
★ 8.8/10
A small woodland creature and a majestic bird, two natural sworn enemies of the Valley, magically trade places and set off on an adventure of a lifetime to switch back. Their journey soon uncovers a greater threat—one…