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Movies Like We Request a Household

If you liked We Request a Household (1946), a comedy movie directed by Maurice Cam, 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. 1Alter Ego

    Alter Ego (2026)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy

    A quiet, middle-aged man spirals into obsession and paranoia when a charismatic look-alike moves in next door, featuring the exact same face—and a full head of hair.

  2. 2Freedom-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.

  3. 3Heartbeat

    Heartbeat (1938)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy

    A pompous grocer’s assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank him with a phony acting contract; believing it to be real, the “schpountz” heads to Paris for his new career.

  4. 4The 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…

  5. 5The Perfume of the Lady in Black

    The Perfume of the Lady in Black (2005)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shock is in store for them.

  6. 6No 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…

  7. 7It 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…

  8. 8Le Clan

    Le Clan (2023)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

    Fred, Achille, Max and Belette form a good-for-nothing gang of crooks. Dismally failing their last raid, they decide to get back in the game, kidnapping Sophie Marceau.

  9. 9Riviera 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…

  10. 10My 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…

  11. 11Dead Tired

    Dead Tired (1994)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to…

  12. 12Babes

    Babes (2024)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and beyond.

  13. 13Copacabana

    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…

  14. 14Three Men and a Cradle

    Three Men and a Cradle (1985)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy

    Three young men - Jacques, Pierre, and Michel - share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of Jacques' tells him he has a quite compromising package to deliver…

  15. 15The 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…

  16. 16Parade

    Parade (1974)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy

    The story of a big party during which Jacques Tati brings together audience members, performers, clowns, children, and himself.

  17. 17Louise-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.

  18. 18Hold-up

    Hold-up (1985)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy

    Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a…

  19. 19Rebels

    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…

  20. 20Maine-Ocean Express

    Maine-Ocean Express (1986)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy

    "Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another traveler and also a lawyer…

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