Movies Like Le Havre (2011)

Le Havre is a 2011 comedy, drama film from Aki Kaurismäki with a MovieMagicScore of 7.0/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with It's a Gift and Miracle in Milan.

Comedy Drama

It's a Gift

1934

After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.

6.3

MagicScore

Miracle in Milan

1951

Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.

7.3

MagicScore

Hachi: A Dog's Tale

2009

A drama based on the true story of a college professor's bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home.

8.0

MagicScore

Capernaum

2018

After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him.

8.1

MagicScore

The Cloud-Capped Star

1960

A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.

7.3

MagicScore

Me and My Gal

1932

Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.

6.3

MagicScore

Letters to Santa 3

2017

Centered around a group of individuals, who come to experience magical moments over the course of one day. Full of the power of family, love and the spirit of forgiveness. Each individual comes to realize that Christmas, more than any other time of the year, is full of wonder and surprises.

6.4

MagicScore

K-9

1989

The extravagant cop Michael Dooley needs some help to fight a drug dealer who has tried to kill him. A "friend" gives him a dog named Jerry Lee (Officer Lewis), who has been trained to smell drugs. With his help, Dooley sets out to put his enemy behind the bars, but Jerry Lee has a personality of his own and works only when he wants to. On the other hand, the dog is quite good at destroying Dooley's car, house and sex-life...

6.2

MagicScore

K-9: P.I.

2002

Dooley and his K-9 partner Jerry Lee are ready to retire from the police force. But before he can retire with his pension he must work as a P.I. to find a set of high tech computer chips.

5.9

MagicScore

#10

K-911

1999

LAPD detective Mike Dooley and his dog, the German Shepherd Jerry Lee, have been successfully partnered for ten years, but Jerry’s advancing age has Dooley’s superiors suggesting retirement and they are forced to work with a younger K-9 team: female cop Sergeant Welles and her disciplined Doberman Zeus.

5.7

MagicScore

#11

A Thief Catcher

1914

Two criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime.

4.9

MagicScore

#12

Wendy and Lucy

2008

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.

6.8

MagicScore

#13

Westfront 1918

1930

A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.

6.6

MagicScore

#14

The Witches of Eastwick

1987

Three single women in a picturesque Rhode Island village have their wishes granted - at a cost - when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives.

6.5

MagicScore

#15

In Bruges

2008

Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.

7.5

MagicScore

#16

Instant Family

2018

When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight.

7.5

MagicScore

#17

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...

6.7

MagicScore

#18

Indochine

1992

Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnamese daughter, Camille, set against the backdrop of the rising Vietnamese nationalist movement.

7.0

MagicScore

#19

The Kneeling Goddess

1947

Antonio, a millionaire, gifts his wife a statue of a naked, kneeling woman for their wedding anniversary.

6.7

MagicScore

#20

Tenderness

2009

A hardened cop tries to unravel the past to discover whether a violent teenager was responsible for the murder of his family. A confused fifteen-year-old runaway becomes enthralled with the young man.

5.2

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Le Havre?

The top films similar to Le Havre by MovieMagicScore are It's a Gift (6.3), Miracle in Milan (7.3), Hachi: A Dog's Tale (8.0). Each shares comedy/drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Le Havre worth watching?

Le Havre holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.0/10 from 458 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Le Havre?

Le Havre (2011) is a comedy, drama film directed by Aki Kaurismäki, starring André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin.

Where can I find more recommendations like Le Havre?

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

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About movies like Le Havre

This ranked list pairs Le Havre (2011), a comedy and drama film from Aki Kaurismäki, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of André Wilms 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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