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10 Best Movies Like Renaissance

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

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#1
Bonjour Tristesse

Bonjour Tristesse

2025‱★ 6.1

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

At the height of summer, 18-year-old Cécile is relaxing by the French seaside with her father and falling in love with her new boyfriend. The arrival of her late mother's enigmatic...

#2
Captain Blood

Captain Blood

1960‱★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Renaissance for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Le capitan is a 1960 French-Italian swashbuckler film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli and Lise Delamare. It is based on a novel by Mi...

#3
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy

Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy

1994‱★ 7.5

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

A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as...

#4
Godard Mon Amour

Godard Mon Amour

2017‱★ 6.6

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

In 1967, during the making of “La Chinoise,” film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 19-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and marries her....

#5
The Public Woman

The Public Woman

1984‱★ 5.9

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

An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and i...

#6
The Smiling Madame Beudet

The Smiling Madame Beudet

1923‱★ 5.9

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

An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband....

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