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10 Best Movies Like The Baker's Wife

If you loved The Baker's Wife, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
My Night at Maud's

My Night at Maud's

1969★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Baker's Wife for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced M...

#2
The Secret of the Grain

The Secret of the Grain

2007★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Baker's Wife for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner's daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant....

#3
Monsieur Verdoux

Monsieur Verdoux

1947★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Baker's Wife for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off....

#4
Block-Heads

Block-Heads

1938★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Baker's Wife for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper an...

#5
Sissi

Sissi

1955★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Baker's Wife for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Néné to Austria where Néné will be wed to an emperor named Franz Joseph, Yet unexpe...

#6
Marius

Marius

1931★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Baker's Wife for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23-year-old son, Marius. Friends since childhood, Fanny and Marius love each other, but Marius has a secret wanderlust: eve...