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10 Best Movies Like Cousin Bette

If you loved Cousin Bette, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
After We Fell

After We Fell

2021★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cousin Bette for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Just as Tessa's life begins to become unglued, nothing is what she thought it would be. Not her friends nor her family. The only person that she should be able to rely on is Hardin...

#2
Family Resemblances

Family Resemblances

1996★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cousin Bette for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An 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, ...

#3
And Their Children After Them

And Their Children After Them

2024★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cousin Bette for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In eastern France, two teenage cousins have the summer of their lives when they paddle a purloined canoe to the far shore of a lake....

#4
Last Summer

Last Summer

2023★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cousin Bette for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

One summer, a French teenager who has been living with his mother in the city moves in with his estranged father’s family in the countryside, where he clashes with his stepmother....

#5
Hard Truths

Hard Truths

2024★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cousin Bette for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Pansy is a woman so full of rage that every interaction she has devolves into lashing out, whether at her utterly cowed husband and son, or random strangers who have the temerity t...

#6
Mon Oncle

Mon Oncle

1958★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cousin Bette for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an u...

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