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10 Best Movies Like Madame Bovary

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

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#1
Colette

Colette

2018★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Madame Bovary for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artis...

#2
Coco Before Chanel

Coco Before Chanel

2009★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Madame Bovary for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She's both a seamstress for the p...

#3
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

2022★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Madame Bovary for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly....

#4
Diary of a Chambermaid

Diary of a Chambermaid

1964★ 7.1

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

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 gir...

#5
Angelique

Angelique

1964★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Madame Bovary for fans of Romance & History. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac out of convenience, but eventually, she falls in love with him. So when Jeoff...

#6
Persuasion

Persuasion

2022★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Madame Bovary for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy, Anne Elliot is an unconforming woman with modern sensibilities. When Frederick Wentworth - the dashing one she once sent a...

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