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10 Best Movies Like Welfare

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

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#1
Paris 36

Paris 36

2008★ 6.1

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

A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of 1936, Paris is in a state of u...

#2
My Old Lady

My Old Lady

2014★ 6.2

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

Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to ...

#3
Lux Æterna

Lux Æterna

2020★ 6.1

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

Charlotte Gainsbourg agrees to play a witch condemned to be burned at the stake in the first film directed by Béatrice Dalle. But the chaotic production, technical problems, and ps...

#4
And Their Children After Them

And Their Children After Them

2024★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Welfare 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....

#5
Don't Think Twice

Don't Think Twice

2016★ 6.4

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

An improv group deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time....

#6
The 4th Wall

The 4th Wall

2025★ 7.2

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

Lebanon, 1982. To keep a promise made to an old friend, Georges, an idealistic theater director, travels to Beirut for a project as utopian as it is risky: to stage the play Antigo...

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