Movies Similar to Boyfriends and Girlfriends

A Woman Is a Woman(1961)

Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.

Vuja de(2022)

Forced by the parents to be married, a young couple in Paris discover things about themselves as they mature through their romance together.

Muriel, or the Time of Return(1963)

In the seaside town of Boulogne, no one seems to be able to cope with their past, least of all Hélène, an antique furniture saleswoman, her stepson Bernard, and her former lover Alphonse.

Ben and Suzanne, A Reunion in 4 Parts(2025)

A couple in a long-distance relationship reunite for a road trip through Sri Lanka. Things go awry.

The Married Woman(1964)

A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.

Time Traveling Through Time(2022)

A wannabe film director becomes embroiled in a battle against the laws of time and space when his attempts to recreate the iconic black and white, photograph-only, time travel film, La Jetée, spiral out of control.

Into the Box(2024)

What did our parents leave behind for us in the boxes they got from their parents? An artist struggles with what he has gotten in the wake of his mother’s death, and a girl forces him to look inside not only the box but himself.

Winter Love(1968)

Inside a café, on Christmas Eve. Chim Kei meets an enigmatic woman named Mimi Wong who introduces herself as the daughter of an upper-crust family. But the infatuated writer is struck by a spasm of sorrow when he later sees Mimi make her appearance as a taxi-dancer at a party. The lovers are reconciled by the story of her plight told by her sister Annie. However, Mimi goes missing on the engagement day. By a stroke of luck, Chim runs into the elusive woman again and finds out how she was forced into prostitution by her drug-addict husband, his childhood best friend and benefactor Chan Hung-kit. Chim leaves dejectedly, and has since been idling his days away. The frail Mimi confesses her love for Chim on her deathbed, and from not far away, Chan has ended his own life.

Nouvelle Vague(2025)

This is the story of Godard making ”Breathless”, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made “Breathless”.

Love at Sea(1965)

During her holiday in Brest, a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and the two lovers have to part. They write to each other. Will their love resist at a distance, each living his life, him in Brest with his friends, she in Paris who keeps waiting for him? An impossible love story and the cross-portrait of two cities, Paris and Brest, between the realism of the color images and the poetry infused by the sepia black and white images, lives to the rhythm of the nostalgia of the two lovers...

Empty

Matthew (Steve Verhulst) an older, self-absorbed, boring, travel worker meets Anna (Sofia Sparta) a young, wild, multifaceted artist that is looking to push the boundaries of society for the acceptance of her own work.

Cassidy Blues(2020)

A Bonnie & Clyde criminal couple rob a movie theater on Christmas Eve, and have time to kill before their train, and escape plan, leaves the station; what's the worst that could happen? Enter the detective pair, Brooks and Candy; one of which is struggling with his recent nicotine kick; their only lead: a pack of mysterious cigarettes called Cassidy Blues.

The Cinephile(2023)

A lonely man, who spends all his time watching films, finds a way to get his hands on a copy of the lost film Cleopatra (1917), but will he be able to pay the price?

Quelques jours avec Clémence(2025)

Could You Pick Me Up, Please?

Newly discharged from rehab, Will calls a string of friends and family to pick him up. While he may be ready to move on, those he hurt can’t easily forget the past.

Maree(2023)

A young painter, Léon, spends his days painting and creating art in order to keep up with the uproar of artists in Paris during the 70's. This passion of his slowly begins to sabotage his relationship with his girlfriend Maree. After their separation, he slowly begins to reflect on their relationship and realises that she may have been his most inspiring muse all along.

50ft Or So...(2024)

A Cine-Poem. A journey through Paris. A memory film. Three stories, dedicated to one pioneer of cinema.

Beans on Toast(2022)

Ideas are a confusing concept. When an emerging surrealist pioneer of French art is faced with a stagnant period, he must comply with bizarre forms of inspiration taking that might re-light the flame of his once innovative self. 

Romance Anónimo

When a disenfranchised, world-famous photographer is interviewed by university students and presented with a portfolio of his life's work he is transported back to his very first photoshoot with a special yet mysterious subject.

Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave(1992)

An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution in the art of cinema. The documentary portrays the movement with insight on the lives and works of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and other principal players in the New Wave.