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Movies Like Samba

If you loved Samba's Drama and Comedy storytelling, these films deliver a similar experience — carefully selected for tone, themes, and emotional depth. Each pick includes where to watch it right now.

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Chinese Puzzle
6.6

Chinese Puzzle

2013

Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.

The Swimming Pool
7.0

The Swimming Pool

1969

Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game.

Black Girl
7.2

Black Girl

1966

Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a mere governess to a family in southern France, suffering from discrimination and marginalization.

Delicacy
6.3

Delicacy

2011

A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.

Sabrina
6.2

Sabrina

1995

After her return from school in Paris, a playboy finally takes notice of his family's chauffeur's daughter Sabrina, who's long had a crush on him, but he questions his more serious brother's motives when he warns against getting involved with her.

Paris Je T'aime
6.8

Paris Je T'aime

2006

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.

Priceless
6.4

Priceless

2006

A beautiful young gold-digger mistakes a lowly hotel clerk as a rich and therefore worthwhile catch.

Hunting & Gathering
6.5

Hunting & Gathering

2007

When Camille falls ill, she is forced to live with Philibert and Franck.

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The Man Who Loved Women
7.1

The Man Who Loved Women

1977

At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.

Le Havre
7.0

Le Havre

2011

In the French harbor city of Le Havre, an elderly shoeshiner with an ailing wife crosses paths with a young African refugee pursued by the police for deportation.

I Got Life!
6.1

I Got Life!

2017

Aurore has separated, just lost her job, and learns that she is going to be a grandmother.

Welcome to the Sticks
6.7

Welcome to the Sticks

2008

Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France...

The Gilded Cage
6.7

The Gilded Cage

2013

In the beautiful area of ​​Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the ground floor of a Haussmann building, in their dear little lodge.

Love Is in the Air
6.0

Love Is in the Air

2013

Antoine is a lawyer living in New York. On his way back to France for the final round of a job interview, Antoine finds himself sitting right next to his ex-girlfriend Julie. With a seven-hour flight ahead of them, they are going to have to speak to each other.

The Lovers on the Bridge
7.4

The Lovers on the Bridge

1991

Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and an affliction which is slowly turning her blind.

How Much Do You Love Me?
5.9

How Much Do You Love Me?

2005

After winning the lottery, François goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to a prostitute named Daniela to live with him as his wife until his money runs out.

Souleymane's Story
7.5

Souleymane's Story

2024

As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane recounts his story. In two days, he has to go through his asylum application interview, the key to obtaining papers, but Souleymane is not ready.

French Lover
6.1

French Lover

2025

When a jaded actor meets a down-on-her-luck waitress in Paris, their unexpected love story begins — but will it survive the glare of the spotlight?

Three Colors: White
7.4

Three Colors: White

1994

Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow Polish expatriate Mikołaj to smuggle him back to their homeland.

Goodbye Solo
6.9

Goodbye Solo

2009

A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.

Why These Movies Are Similar

These recommendations share core qualities with Samba (2014): Drama and Comedy themes, similar narrative structure, and comparable emotional depth. NoBadPicks uses a combination of TMDB collaborative filtering, genre matching, and AI analysis to surface films most likely to resonate with fans of Samba.

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