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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
The Nannies

The Nannies

2022★ 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.

Angèle, a thirty-something from Ivory Coast, always cope thanks to the gift of gab and audacity. To escape from a bunch of dangerous criminals, she becomes a nanny in the uptown Pa...

#5
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...

#6
Macadam Stories

Macadam Stories

2015★ 6.9

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

Improbable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation....

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