Movies Like Un été à la Garoupe
If you liked Un été à la Garoupe (2020), a documentary movie directed by François Lévy-Kuentz, 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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Along the Coast (1958)
★ 7.3/10Also documentaryTongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Reviews its history and famous visitors; displays its faux-exotic buildings, its crowded beaches, its trees and…
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Chronicle of a Summer (1961)
★ 7.2/10Also documentaryParis, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking passersby how they cope with life's misfortunes.
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Daguerréotypes (1978)
★ 7.3/10Also documentaryAn intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue Daguerre in Paris, a picturesque street that has been the filmmaker’s home for more than 50 years.
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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also documentaryAs his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind.
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Faces Places (2017)
★ 7.6/10Also documentaryDirector Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
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The Bus: A French Football Mutiny (2026)
★ 6.9/10Also documentaryThis documentary revisits the French football team's controversial 2010 World Cup and the bus strike that sparked global headlines and national outrage.
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Uncle Yanco (1967)
★ 7.2/10Also documentaryWhile in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda, tipped by her friend Tom Luddy, gets to know a relative she had never heard of before, Jean Varda, nicknamed "Yanco". This…
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Nude (2017)
★ 9.2/10Also documentaryNUDE explores perceptions of nudity in art by chronicling the creative process of photographer David Bellemere as he's commissioned by NU Muses founder Steve Shaw to shoot a fine art calendar of nude photographs.
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Cameraperson (2016)
★ 6.7/10Also documentaryAs a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What…
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)
★ 7.9/10Also documentaryA chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life…
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Chronos (1985)
★ 7.5/10Also documentaryCarefully picked scenes of nature and civilization are viewed at high speed using time-lapse cinematography in an effort to demonstrate the history of various regions.
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Capturing Avatar (2010)
★ 7/10Also documentaryCapturing Avatar is a feature length behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Avatar. It uses footage from the film's development, as well as stock footage from as far back as the production of Titanic in…
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The Lovely Month of May (1963)
★ 8/10Also documentaryCandid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance…
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Ocean with David Attenborough (2025)
★ 8.1/10Also documentaryDavid Attenborough takes viewers on a breathtaking journey showing there is nowhere more vital for our survival, more full of life, wonder, or surprise, than the ocean. Through spectacular sequences featuring coral…
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The Salt of the Earth (2014)
★ 8.1/10Also documentaryDuring the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of our recent history…
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Atlantis (1991)
★ 6.3/10Also documentaryAtlantis is filmmaker Luc Besson's celebration of the beauty and wonder of the world beneath the sea, expanding upon themes touched on in his film The Big Blue. Combining stunning underwater cinematography and a…
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Shawn Mendes: In Wonder (2020)
★ 8.1/10Also documentaryA portrait of singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes' life, chronicling the past few years of his rise and journey.
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Val (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also documentaryFor over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood's most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors, has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm…
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The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button (2009)
★ 7/10Also documentaryA documentary about the making of David Fincher's 2008 film THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON. Virtually every element in the evolution of the Fincher's film is documented here, from the project's attachment to…
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Game of Thrones: The Last Watch (2019)
★ 7/10Also documentaryFor a year, acclaimed British filmmaker Jeanie Finlay was embedded on the set of the hit HBO series “Game of Thrones,” chronicling the creation of the show’s most ambitious and complicated season. Debuting one week…