Movies Like Des quintuplés au pensionnat
If you liked Des quintuplés au pensionnat (1953), a comedy movie directed by René Jayet, 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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Le Clan (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also comedyFred, 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.
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It Boy (2013)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy38-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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Neuilly Yo Mama! (2009)
★ 6/10Also comedySamy moves from the underdeveloped crime-ridden French suburb to the riches of Neuilly.
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Marche à l'ombre (1984)
★ 6.5/10Also comedyTwo friends, one a musician the other constantly depressed wander around Greece and France till they get to Paris without a penny to their name. Here they spend nights in the underground, and squat in houses with the…
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Alter Ego (2026)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyA 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.
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Me, Myself and Mum (2013)
★ 6.6/10Also comedyHow to become a man when your mother and your closed circle have decided otherwise? This is the challenge Guillaume took up. The film recounts Guillaume's tragicomic battle from the young age of eight, as he adopts the…
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The Small Victories (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also comedyBetween her roles as mayor and teacher in the small village of Kerguen, Alice's days are very full. When an unexpected new student, 60-year-old Emile, finally decides to learn to read and write, her daily life…
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Family Resemblances (1996)
★ 7.4/10Also comedyAn upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
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After the Ball (2015)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyAfter the Ball, a retail fairy tale set in the world of fashion. Kate's dream is to design for couturier houses. Although she is a bright new talent, Kate can't get a job. No one trusts the daughter of Lee Kassell, a…
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The Nannies (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also comedyAngèle, 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…
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Les Démons de Jésus (1997)
★ 6.7/10Also comedySet in the late 1960s, a family of Gypsies live in a dilapidated pavilion in the western suburbs of Paris.
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Themroc (1973)
★ 6.4/10Also comedyThemroc, a bachelor house painter living at home with his mother, leads a sad and colorless life. One day, after a run-in with his boss, he rebels. He wrecks his apartment, rejects every facet of bourgeois life, and…
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LOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour (2026)
★ 6/10Also comedyAt 55, Anne is finally enjoying her freedom after her children leave home. But everything changes when her 23-year-old daughter, Louise, moves back in with her after a professional and romantic failure. And to make…
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Cadet Kelly (2002)
★ 6.2/10Also comedyHyperactive teenager Kelly is enrolled into a military school when her new stepfather becomes the Commandant. At first she has problems fitting in and taking orders until she tries out for the drill team.
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Old Boys (2018)
★ 6.6/10Also comedyIn the school-set re-working of Cyrano, an awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spectacularly dim school-hero pursue the fiery daughter of a visiting French teacher.
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No Filter (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyBeatrice 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…
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Adventures in Public School (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyA socially-awkward, home-schooled kid forces his way into public school against his suffocating, but loving, mother's wishes.
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Class Rank (2017)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyTwo high school misfits join forces in an attempt to overtake the local school board. Guided by their families, they enter the perilous word of politics and, in the process, learn a thing or two about love.
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Radiostars (2012)
★ 6/10Also comedyBen, who dreamed of himself as a comic in New York, is back in Paris, his professional and emotional life in complete disarray. He encounters Alex, the star host of the Breakfast Club, a popular morning radio show…
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What's in a Name (2012)
★ 7.3/10Also comedyVincent, a wealthy real estate agent, is invited to dinner by his sister Elizabeth and her husband Peter, both professors in Paris. Claude, a childhood friend and trombonist in a symphony orchestra, is also present…