Movies Like La Pointe Courte (1956)

La Pointe Courte is a 1956 drama, romance film from Agnès Varda with a MovieMagicScore of 6.9/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with 6 Years and Leaving.

Drama Romance

6 Years

2015

A young couple bound by a seemingly ideal love, begins to unravel as unexpected opportunities spin them down a volatile and violent path and threaten the future they had always imagined.

5.4

MagicScore

Leaving

2009

A bourgeois housewife, planning to go back to work as a physiotherapist after having devoted 20 years to her husband and two children, has her comfortable, elegant life turned upside down when she falls for a Spanish builder and begins a runaway affair.

6.0

MagicScore

The Man of My Life

2006

A man vacationing in the country with his wife and children finds ideas he has of himself unexpectedly challenged.

5.9

MagicScore

The Anarchist's Wife

2008

Manuela is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a concentration camp, and upon his release, continues the fight against nationalism in the French resistance. Years pass without a word from him, but his wife never gives up hope of seeing him again.

5.5

MagicScore

36 Fillette

1988

Lili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self-aware and holds her own in a café conversation with a concert pianist she meets, but she has a wild streak and she's testing her powers over men, finding that she doesn't always control her moods or actions, and she's impatient with being a virgin. She sets off with her brother to a disco, latching onto an aging playboy who is himself hot and cold to her. She is ambivalent about losing her virginity that night, willing the next, and determined by the third.

4.9

MagicScore

Vagabond

1985

Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.

7.3

MagicScore

Fat Girl

2001

Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is fifteen and devilishly beautiful. Neither more futile, nor more stupid than her younger sister, she cannot understand that she is merely an object of desire. And, as such, she can only be taken. Or had. Indeed, this is the subject: a girl's loss of virginity. And, that summer, it opens a door to tragedy.

6.2

MagicScore

French Twist

1995

After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.

6.1

MagicScore

The Sower

2017

In 1852, the mountain village in Provence where Violette lives is brutally deprived of all its men after the repression of the republicans ordered by Napoleon III. Women spend months in total isolation, desperate to see their men again. In this situation, they make an oath in case a man arrives in the village.

5.9

MagicScore

#10

Bright Lights, Big City

1988

A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.

5.7

MagicScore

#11

Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench

2010

After connecting with the shy Madeline, a jazz trumpeter embarks on a quest for a more gregarious paramour, but through a series of twists and turns punctuated by an original score, the two lovers seem destined to be together.

5.5

MagicScore

#12

The Other Half

2016

A grief-stricken man and a bipolar woman fall in love and attempt to forge a simple life together.

6.1

MagicScore

#13

The Fan

1982

The hero-worship that Simone has for a pop singer is built to a crescendo until she passes out when she finally sees him up-close in a crowd of fans. She is later shocked when he lets her know that he does not love her.

6.6

MagicScore

#14

The Good Girls

1960

Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams.

6.2

MagicScore

#15

Tokyo Story

1953

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

8.1

MagicScore

#16

Company

2011

Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, an exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes of a charming perpetual bachelor questioning his single state and his enthusiastically married, slightly envious friends.

6.8

MagicScore

#17

Boxing Day

2021

Melvin, a British author living in America, returns home to London for Christmas to introduce his American fiancée Lisa to his eccentric British-Caribbean family. Their relationship is put to the test as she discovers the world her fiancé has left behind.

6.6

MagicScore

#18

The House

2022

Emma, a French novelist aged 27, decide to go to Berlin and join a brothel to uncover the prostitution world, the subject of her new book. Such as gonzo journalism, Emma become a prostitute and her experience, which was supposed to last a few weeks, will last two years. Was writing her book an excuse for Emma to live a shameful fantasy?

6.0

MagicScore

#19

Stop Making Sense

1984

A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album "Speaking in Tongues." The band takes the stage one by one and is joined by a cadre of guest musicians for a career-spanning and cinematic performance that features creative choreography and visuals.

8.3

MagicScore

#20

The Nomi Song

2004

Looks like an alien, sings like a diva - Klaus Nomi was one of the 1980s' most profoundly bizarre characters to emerge through rock music: a counter tenor who sang pop music like opera and brought opera to club audiences and made them like it. The Nomi Song is a film about fame, death, friendship, betrayal, opera, and the greatest New Wave rock star that never was!

6.2

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like La Pointe Courte?

The top films similar to La Pointe Courte by MovieMagicScore are 6 Years (5.4), Leaving (6.0), The Man of My Life (5.9). Each shares drama/romance themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is La Pointe Courte worth watching?

La Pointe Courte holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.9/10 from 119 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is La Pointe Courte?

La Pointe Courte (1956) is a drama, romance film directed by Agnès Varda, starring Philippe Noiret, Silvia Monfort, Marcel Jouet.

Where can I find more recommendations like La Pointe Courte?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more drama recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like La Pointe Courte

This ranked list pairs La Pointe Courte (1956), a drama and romance film from Agnès Varda, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Philippe Noiret 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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