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10 Best Movies Like The Dinner Guest

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

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#1
What's in a Name

What's in a Name

2012★ 7.3

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

Vincent, a wealthy real estate agent, is invited to dinner by his sister Elizabeth and her husband Peter, both professors in Paris. Claude, a childhood friend and trombonist in a s...

#2
Very Happy Alexander

Very Happy Alexander

1968★ 6.9

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

Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like a dog. When she dies in a car crash, he decides to stay in bed, absolutely free...

#3
Family Resemblances

Family Resemblances

1996★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Dinner Guest 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, ...

#4
A Difficult Year

A Difficult Year

2023★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Dinner Guest 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
Open Season

Open Season

2023★ 6.0

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

Flanked by their two children, Simon and Adélaïde decide, like many Parisians today, to leave their two-room apartment for a quieter and more comfortable life in the country. They ...

#6
Guess Who's Calling!

Guess Who's Calling!

2025★ 6.3

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

Baptiste, a talented imitator, is unable to make a living from his art. One day, he is approached by Pierre Chozène, a famous but discreet novelist, constantly disturbed by incessa...

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