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Movies Like The Old Sorceress & the Valet

If you liked The Old Sorceress & the Valet (1987), a comedy and drama movie directed by Julius-Amédée Laou, 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. 1Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

    Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)

    ★ 7.4/10Also comedy and drama

    Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the…

  2. 2Maybe More

    Maybe More (2024)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy and drama

    After 25 years together, married life has taken its toll on Xavier and Sophie, so when Sophie decides to invite their neighbours over for dinner, Xavier is less than enthusiastic to say the least! He can’t stand how…

  3. 3All Fired Up

    All Fired Up (1982)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    Victor Valance, an absent father and gambler, works with shady casino operations abroad. When he returns to Paris in need of money, he plans to take advantage that Pauline, his eldest daughter now fully responsible for…

  4. 4Bon Voyage, Marie

    Bon Voyage, Marie (2025)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy and drama

    An unexpected road trip brings a dysfunctional family together for one last journey with their elder, sparking moments of connection, joy, and reconciliation.

  5. 5Whatever It Takes

    Whatever It Takes (2026)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and drama

    Rose and Jean have nothing in common. Rose is a force of nature who faces all her problems with a disarming joie de vivre. She lives with her 3 children upstairs in the family hotel that no longer belongs to her…

  6. 6César

    César (1936)

    ★ 7.7/10Also comedy and drama

    Leaping forward twenty years, the trilogy continues with the death of Fanny's husband, Panisse, and the discovery of her secret by her son, Césariot. The young man resolves to track down his biological father, Marius…

  7. 7Ride Away

    Ride Away (2025)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy and drama

    From the Atlantic to the Black Sea, Mathias and Philippe, two old friends, embark on a bicycle journey that Mathias’s son made before his tragic death. The two men ride through the ordeals with tenderness, humor and…

  8. 8CQ

    CQ (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi…

  9. 9New Biz in the Hood

    New Biz in the Hood (2019)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy and drama

    Fred Bartel is the charismatic boss of a trendy Parisian communication agency, Happy Few. After a heated tax audit, he was forced by the administration to relocate overnight his company in La Courneuve. Fred and his…

  10. 10All Together

    All Together (2012)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternative to living in a retirement home. Joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.

  11. 11Alice and the Mayor

    Alice and the Mayor (2019)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    The mayor of Lyon, Paul Théraneau, is in a delicate position. After 30 years in politics, he is running out of ideas and is faced with a feeling of existential emptiness. To overcome this, Paul hires a young and…

  12. 12Bye Bye Morons

    Bye Bye Morons (2020)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy and drama

    When 43-year-old hairdresser Suze Trappet finds out that she's seriously ill, she decides to go looking for a child she was forced to abandon when she was only 15. On her madcap bureaucratic quest she crosses paths…

  13. 13The Decline of the American Empire

    The Decline of the American Empire (1986)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy and drama

    Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex…

  14. 14No Love Lost

    No Love Lost (2023)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and drama

    A single father, Étienne, is preparing for his daughter Rosa to leave home, but his life is upended when he sees his long-lost wife, Valérie, on TV, forcing a confrontation with the past.

  15. 15Uranus

    Uranus (1990)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and comedy

    After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only…

  16. 16SubUrbia

    SubUrbia (1997)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.

  17. 17Bazaar (Murder in the Building)

    Bazaar (Murder in the Building) (2026)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and drama

    Misanthropic novelist François writes gripping crime stories – “Agatha Christie meets The Scarlet Pimpernel” – but outside of the swashbuckling imaginary world of his Marquis la Rose-novels, life is far from thrilling…

  18. 18Break

    Break (2018)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    Lucie, a young dancer suffers an accident. When she wakes up from a coma, she and her partner start training for a dance show. On the way, she starts looking for her estranged father, a path that might lead her to…

  19. 19On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

    On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024)

    ★ 7.5/10Also comedy and drama

    On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian…

  20. 20Landline

    Landline (2017)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.

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