Movies Like A Day in the Country
If you liked A Day in the Country (1946), a drama and romance movie directed by Jean Renoir, 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.
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Waiting for Bojangles (2021)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and comedyA boy and his eccentric parents leave their home in Paris for a country house in Spain. As the mother descends deeper into her own mind, it's up to the boy and his father to keep her safe and happy.
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To Paint or Make Love (2005)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and comedyAn affluent, middle-aged couple's uneventful lives are forever changed when they move into an isolated house in the country and befriend an odd, younger couple.
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Blind (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romanceA novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.
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Happiness (1965)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and romanceThough married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker.
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Dirty Sexy Saint (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also romance and dramaClay Kincaid hates the nickname 'Saint', he got for being too kind to stray animals and desperate people. Especially when it comes to women. With a rough and damaged past that has left him jaded, he doesn't do…
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The Source (2011)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and dramaA comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.
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Picnic on the Grass (1959)
★ 6.3/10Also romance and comedyNew Europe presidential candidate Etienne Alexis is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion. To celebrate his engagement to a cousin, he hosts an aseptic…
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Madame (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also romance and comedyAnne and Bob, a well-to-do American couple, have just moved to a beautiful manor house in romantic Paris. To impress their sophisticated friends, they decide to host a lavish dinner party, but must disguise their maid…
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The Good House (2021)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and dramaWhen wry New England realtor Hildy Good rekindles a romance with her old high-school flame, Frank Getchell, it ignites long-buried emotions and family secrets that propel Hildy toward a reckoning with the one person…
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Game of Love (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and dramaFollows Vivien and Roy as their love story continues and leads them to Roy’s childhood home in Sicily to prepare for the sale of the family estate. During the visit, a mysterious woman arrives and befriends Vivien…
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Cyrus (2010)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaWith John's social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, a down on his luck divorcée finally meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover she has another man in her life - her son. Before…
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Tamara Drewe (2010)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romanceA young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.
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Paris, 13th District (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romanceÉmilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy – They're friends, sometimes lovers and often both.
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No Limit (2022)
★ 6/10Also drama and romanceRoxana Aubrey decides to drop her studies and escape her life in Paris for a free diving course in the south of France. She is quickly pulled into a life that reaches new depths brought by the weight of an ocean's…
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The Fugitive Kind (1960)
★ 6.9/10Also romance and dramaVal Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local…
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Gervaise (1956)
★ 6.7/10Also romance and dramaGervaise Macquart is a beautiful Parisian laundress and mother whose lover, Lantier, walks out on her. She eventually marries Henri Coupeau, a roofer who has an unfortunate accident. As her now crippled husband…
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An Affair of Love (1999)
★ 6.3/10Also romance and dramaA man and a woman meet to fulfill her sexual fantasy.
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Why Did I Get Married Again? (2026)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and romanceThe couples reunite for the destination wedding of Marcus and Angela's daughter, bringing drama old and new as they ask, "Why did we get married again?"
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More Than Ever (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and romanceHélène, a 33-year-old woman from Bordeaux, France, lives happily as a couple with Mathieu, her husband of many years. Her life turns upside down the day she learns she has a rare lung disease. Thanks to a blog, she…
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Strictly Sexual (2008)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and comedyTwo successful women, sick and tired of dating and relationships, decide to keep two young men in their pool house for strictly sexual purposes.