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Happening (2021)

  • Drama
  • 99 min
  • 12 age guide
  • ★ 7.2/10 from 531 ratings

France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to do so.

Directed byAudrey Diwan

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  1. 01

    All Your Faces

    Strong story similarity

    2023 · 115 min · Drama

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    Since 2014, France's restorative justice programmes have offered a safe space for supervised dialogue between offenders and victims. Grégoire, Nawelle, and Sabine, victims of heists and violent robberies, agree to join one of these discussion groups alongside offenders Nassim, Issa, and Thomas, all convicted of violent robberies. Meanwhile Chloé, a victim of childhood sexual abuse, prepares for dialogue with her own agressor after learning he has moved back into town.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  2. 02

    Another Day

    Strong story similarity

    2026 · 120 min · Drama

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    Garance is a young actress, but not a star. She manages everything as best she can, valiant, cheerful, a soldier, and she finds in alcohol an unconditional fuel, a source of comfort. Garance changes her life and begins an eight-year journey of moves, work, encounters, parties and anxieties, joys and hardships… An intimate, friendly, and sexual revolution. But she consumes, more and more. Until the very possibility of death…

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared production studio: France 3 Cinéma
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  3. 03

    The Rays and Shadows

    Same studio

    2026 · 199 min · Drama · History

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    Jean and Otto, a French newspaperman and a young German Francophile, are fighting for peace in Europe. Jean’s daughter, Corinne, is launching a brilliant acting career in the film world, but war breaks out and France is occupied. The two friends have a major role to play in this new France. Jean becomes a big press baron and an ardent advocate of collaboration with the occupying forces, while Otto becomes the Reich’s ambassador in Paris. Corinne, meanwhile, finds herself thrown into the lion’s pit.

    Why it connects

    • substantial genre overlap
    • shared production studio: France 3 Cinéma
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  4. 04

    Gloria Mundi

    Strong story similarity

    2019 · 107 min · Drama

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    Daniel leaves prison. He returns to Marseilles where Mathilda, his daughter, has just given birth. Nicolas, her spouse, a self-employed driver, is exhausted while Mathilda is a sales assistant on a trial basis. But, one night, Nicolas is assaulted by taxi drivers determined to reduce unfair competition.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  5. 05

    Declaration of War

    Strong story similarity

    2011 · 100 min · Drama

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    Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others. Except that their little boy, Adam, behaves abnormally. The young parents try hard to persuade themselves that everything is okay but, with the passing of time, they cannot delude themselves anymore: their son has a problem. From now on, war is declared. A war against illness. A war against Death. A war against despair.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared theme: woman director
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  6. 06

    Blue Is the Warmest Color

    Strong story similarity

    2013 · 180 min · Drama · Romance

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    Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap
    • shared production studio: Wild Bunch
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  7. 08

    The Worst Ones

    Strong story similarity

    2022 · 100 min · Comedy · Drama

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    The story centres on a group of teenagers street cast in their neighbourhood and selected to play in a feature film during the summer. The film tells the story of this film shoot and of the connections that will be formed during it.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  8. 09

    Thérèse

    Strong story similarity

    2012 · 110 min · Drama

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    An unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures and her boring suburban setting.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared themes: france and pregnancy
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  9. 10

    35 Shots of Rum

    Strong story similarity

    2009 · 101 min · Drama

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    A widower and his daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her department at her university.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared production studio: Wild Bunch
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