SimilarScreen
Jules and Jim

Jules and Jim

A Hymn to Life and Love

19627.51h 46m

Overview

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.

Directed by François Truffaut
Written by Henri-Pierre Roché, François Truffaut, Jean Gruault
Produced by François Truffaut
0

Top Cast

Jeanne Moreau

Jeanne Moreau

Catherine

O

Oskar Werner

Jules

Henri Serre

Henri Serre

Jim

Marie Dubois

Marie Dubois

Thérèse

Sabine Haudepin

Sabine Haudepin

Sabine

Vanna Urbino

Vanna Urbino

Gilberte

Serge Rezvani

Serge Rezvani

Albert

Anny Nelsen

Anny Nelsen

Lucie

Michel Subor

Michel Subor

Récitant / Narrator (voix)

D

Danielle Bassiak

Albert's Companion

Themes & Keywords

adulteryfriendshipprostitutejealousyparis, francebased on novel or booklove trianglemusicianmarriagelovepolyamoryaustrian1910s

About Jules and Jim

Jules and Jim is a drama, romance film released in 1962 exploring themes of adultery, friendship, prostitute, jealousy, paris, france, based on novel or book. Directed by François Truffaut, it stars Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre. In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.

Movies Similar to Jules and Jim

Discover titles like Jules and Jim — ranked by similarity and community votes

We found 15 movies similar to Jules and Jim

If you enjoyed Jules and Jim, you'll love these handpicked recommendations. Each title below shares similar themes, tone, and storytelling style. Our algorithm analyzes genres, keywords, director filmography, and cast connections to find the closest matches. Whether you're looking for the same emotional depth, narrative structure, or visual style, these picks are curated to deliver the best viewing experience for fans of Jules and Jim.

The Man Who Loved Women
32% Match

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.

Stolen Kisses
31% Match

The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.

Bed and Board
31% Match

Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.

Love on the Run
28% Match

Now in his thirties, Antoine Doinel is a divorced proofreader in love with a record seller. Colette Tazzi, now a lawyer, buys his first published autobiography, leading them to a chance meeting.

The Truth
27% Match

The Truth(1960)

Movie7.6/10

As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the two used to share.

The Piano
26% Match

The Piano(1993)

Movie7.4/10

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.

The Things of Life
25% Match

The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memories of the past with Catherine, his ex-wife; but his true destiny awaits him at a crossroads on his way to Rennes…

Revolutionary Road
25% Match

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

Lolita
25% Match

Lolita(1997)

Movie7.1/10

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

Like Water for Chocolate
25% Match

Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.

Passages
25% Match

Passages(2023)

Movie6.3/10

Tomas and Martin are a gay couple living in Paris whose marriage is thrown into crisis when Tomas impulsively begins a passionate affair with young schoolteacher Agathe. But when Martin begins an affair of his own, Tomas must confront life decisions he may be unprepared—or unwilling—to deal with.

The Voyeur
24% Match

The Voyeur(1994)

Movie5.5/10

At a college in Rome, a professor, nicknamed "Dodo" is in a deep depression. His stunningly beautiful wife has just left him for another man. Dodo wants her back very badly and has erotic daydreams about her. A beautiful young student in his class asks him for a ride home and seduces the lucky man, but still he wonders about his wife and her lover.

The Dreamers
23% Match

When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.

Persuasion
23% Match

Persuasion(1995)

Movie7.1/10

In early 19th-century England, dire financial straits reacquaint the aristocratic Anne Elliot with her wealthy ex-fiance Frederick Wentworth. The two must choose between either putting the past behind them or listening to their hearts.