Movies Like Three Friends (2024)

Three Friends is a 2024 comedy, drama, romance film from Emmanuel Mouret with a MovieMagicScore of 6.2/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Words and Pictures and Book Club.

Comedy Drama Romance

Words and Pictures

2014

An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.

6.4

MagicScore

Book Club

2018

Four lifelong friends decide that their lives could change by becoming nasty and reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their monthly book club to get inspiration on how to handle sexual pleasure at an elderly age.

6.2

MagicScore

Moonlight and Valentino

1995

A young widow still grieving over the death of her husband finds herself being comforted by a local housepainter.

5.5

MagicScore

Silver Linings Playbook

2012

After losing his job and wife, and spending time in an institution, a former teacher winds up living with his parents. He wants to rebuild his life and reconcile with his wife, but his father would be happy if he shared his obsession with the Philadelphia Eagles. Things get complicated when he meets Tiffany Maxwell who offers to help him reconnect with his wife if he will do something very important for her in exchange.

7.1

MagicScore

Tea with Mussolini

1999

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate Mary Wallace. Mary and her cultured friends - including artist Arabella, young widow Elsa, and archaeologist Georgie - keep a watchful eye over the boy. But the women's cultivated lives take a dramatic turn when Allied forces declare war on Mussolini.

6.4

MagicScore

Andrei Rublev

1966

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.

8.0

MagicScore

Like Stars on Earth

2007

Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.

8.0

MagicScore

A Simple Favor

2018

Stephanie, a dedicated mother and popular vlogger, befriends Emily, a mysterious upper-class woman whose son Nicky attends the same school as Miles, Stephanie's son. When Emily asks her to pick Nicky up from school and then disappears, Stephanie undertakes an investigation that will dive deep into Emily's cloudy past.

6.6

MagicScore

The Children's Hour

1961

An unruly student at a private all-girls boarding school scandalously accuses the two women who run it of having a romantic relationship.

7.7

MagicScore

#10

The Innocent

2022

Sylvie, a nearly sixty-year-old woman, has fallen in love with Michel, a thug she marries in prison. The couple dream of starting again with a clean slate by opening a flower shop. But Sylvie’s son Abel, convinced that Michel will fall into a life of crime, disapproves of this relationship.

6.8

MagicScore

#11

A Man Escaped

1956

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.

7.9

MagicScore

#12

By the Grace of God

2019

Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who abused him decades ago continues to work with children. He joins forces with others victims of the priest, to bring justice and “lift the burden of silence” about what they endured.

7.1

MagicScore

#13

The Watchmaker of St. Paul

1974

Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realizes that he knew far less about his son than he thought.

6.9

MagicScore

#14

A Gang Story

2011

After growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of all, he has remained friends with Serge Suttel, with whom he first discovered prison life - for stealing cherries. The two of them inevitably got involved in organized crime. The team they formed, the Ganf Des Lyonnais, made them the most notorious armed robbers of the early 1970s. Their irresistible rise ended in 1974 with a spectacular arrest. Today, as he nears 60, Momon would like to forget that part of his life. He has found peace by retiring from the "business". He tends to his wife Janou, who suffered so in the past, and to his children and grandchildren, all of whom have great respect for this man of simple and universal values, so clear-headed and full of kindness. But then Serge Suttel, who has disowned nothing of his past, comes back into the picture.

6.8

MagicScore

#15

In the Game

2018

A rebellious teenager must travel the country with his sick grandpa to get to his basketball game.

6.4

MagicScore

#16

Lucie Aubrac

1997

A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband...

6.4

MagicScore

#17

The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon

1895

Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.

5.3

MagicScore

#18

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara

2011

Three friends who were inseparable in childhood decide to go on a three-week-long bachelor road trip to Spain, in order to re-establish their bond and explore thrilling adventures, before one of them gets married. What will they learn of themselves and each other during the adventure?

7.6

MagicScore

#19

La Vie de Bohème

1992

Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.

7.5

MagicScore

#20

Ridicule

1996

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.

6.9

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Three Friends?

The top films similar to Three Friends by MovieMagicScore are Words and Pictures (6.4), Book Club (6.2), Moonlight and Valentino (5.5). Each shares comedy/drama/romance themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Three Friends worth watching?

Three Friends holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.2/10 from 104 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Three Friends?

Three Friends (2024) is a comedy, drama, romance film directed by Emmanuel Mouret, starring India Hair, Camille Cottin, Sara Forestier.

Where can I find more recommendations like Three Friends?

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About movies like Three Friends

This ranked list pairs Three Friends (2024), a comedy and drama and romance film from Emmanuel Mouret, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of India Hair take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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