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10 Best Movies Like What's in a Name

If you loved What's in a Name, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Family Resemblances

Family Resemblances

1996★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What's in a Name 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, ...

#2
Paris Follies

Paris Follies

2014★ 5.9

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

Long married 50-somethings Brigitte and Xavier are prize cattle breeders in regional France. Life is good, but the departure of their children from home has thrown Brigitte’s world...

#3
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

1987★ 7.4

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

Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories abou...

#4
A Difficult Year

A Difficult Year

2023★ 5.9

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

Compulsive spenders Albert and Bruno are in debt up to their necks. While seeking help from community workers to get their lives back on track, they run into a group of young green...

#5
Family Is Family

Family Is Family

2018★ 5.8

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

Valentin D is a hot designer architect who claims to be an orphan because he is too ashamed to admit he is the son of working-class scrap metal merchants from the north of France....

#6
Three Men and a Cradle

Three Men and a Cradle

1985★ 6.4

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

Three young men - Jacques, Pierre, and Michel - share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of Jacques' tells him he has a qu...

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