Movies Like Welcome to the Sticks

If you liked Welcome to the Sticks (2008), a comedy and drama movie directed by Dany Boon, 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
Bed and Board (1970)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and drama
Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his…
2
Delicacy (2011)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and comedy
A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
3
Chinese Puzzle (2013)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and drama
Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.
4
Chocolat (2000)
★ 7/10Also comedy and drama
In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where they open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of the strictly Catholic townsfolk and mayor.
5
Love on the Run (1979)
★ 7/10Also romance and drama
Now in his thirties, Antoine Doinel is a divorced proofreader in love with a record seller. Colette Tazzi, now a lawyer, buys his first published autobiography, leading them to a chance meeting.
6
My Summer in Provence (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama
In the wake of their parent's separation, three siblings spend the summer in the south of France with their estranged Grandfather. In less than 24 hours, a clash of generations has occurred between the teenagers and…
7
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)
★ 7.2/10Also romance and drama
Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Léa, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Léa is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Léa's handsome and witty friend…
8
Chéri (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and comedy
The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
9
Fools Rush In (1997)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and drama
After a one night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes compromise of one's own cultural traditions.
10
A California Christmas: City Lights (2021)
★ 6.6/10Also romance and comedy
Follows Callie and Joseph one year after they fell in love, now running a dairy farm and winery, but their romance is threatened when business and family obligations call Joseph back to the city.
11
Paris Can Wait (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama
Anne is at a crossroads in her life. Long married to a successful, driven but inattentive movie producer, she unexpectedly finds herself taking a car trip from Cannes to Paris with Jacques, a business associate of her…
12
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and comedy
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine…
13
Goodbye Again (1961)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and romance
Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her longtime philandering partner begins yet another casual affair with a…
14
Samba (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and comedy
Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end…
15
The Little Thief (1988)
★ 6.3/10Also romance and drama
In a small town in post-WWII France, 16-year-old Janine tries to improve her conditions by any means necessary. Three people—Michel, a married lover; Raoul, a fellow thief; Mauricette, a photographer she meets in…
16
Coup de chance (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also romance and drama
Fanny and Jean have everything of an ideal couple: fulfilled professionally, they live in a magnificent apartment in the beautiful districts of Paris, and seem to be in love as on the first day. But when Fanny crosses…
17
Just an Illusion (2026)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy and drama
In 1985 suburban Paris, 12-year-old Vincent lives with his distant older brother and quarrelling parents. Amid laughter and unease, he navigates friendship and first love, while beginning to confront the adult world.
18
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and romance
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
19
The Proposal (2009)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and romance
When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.
20
Summer Things (2002)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama
Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it starts a complicate love cross among them that will involve also a…