SimilarScreen
Amélie

Amélie

She’ll change your life.

20017.92h 2m

Overview

At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?

Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Written by Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Produced by Claudie Ossard, Arne Meerkamp van Embden
Box OfficeBudget: $10.0MRevenue: $173.9M

Top Cast

Audrey Tautou

Audrey Tautou

Amélie Poulain

Mathieu Kassovitz

Mathieu Kassovitz

Nino Quincampoix

Rufus

Rufus

Raphaël Poulain

Serge Merlin

Serge Merlin

Raymond Dufayel

Jamel Debbouze

Jamel Debbouze

Lucien

Clotilde Mollet

Clotilde Mollet

Gina

Claire Maurier

Claire Maurier

Suzanne

Isabelle Nanty

Isabelle Nanty

Georgette

Dominique Pinon

Dominique Pinon

Joseph

Artus de Penguern

Artus de Penguern

Hipolito

Themes & Keywords

daughterparis, francelove trianglephotographyghost trainsex shopshynessjourney around the worldpostcardromcomhypochondriacromancecafekindnessmagic realismchild's point of viewnostalgicmontmartre, parisneighbor neighbor relationshipfather daughter relationshiplovinghappy endingchildhood memoryinspirationallightheartedromantic comedy

About Amélie

Amélie is a comedy, romance film released in 2001 exploring themes of daughter, paris, france, love triangle, photography, ghost train, sex shop. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, it stars Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus. At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?

Movies Similar to Amélie

Discover titles like Amélie — ranked by similarity and community votes

We found 15 movies similar to Amélie

If you enjoyed Amélie, 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 Amélie.

Crush
23% Match

Crush(2022)

Movie7.4/10

When an aspiring young artist is forced to join her high school track team, she uses it as an opportunity to pursue the girl she's been harboring a long-time crush on. But she soon finds herself falling for an unexpected teammate and discovers what real love feels like.

Not on the Lips
23% Match

A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were more demonstrative. He's negotiating a deal with an American, Eric Thomson, who turns out to be Gilberte's first husband from an annulled and secret stateside marriage. Along with her sister Arlette, Gilberte begs Eric not to tell Georges about the marriage. Meanwhile, a young artist, Charly, pursues Gilberte while Arlette tries to match him with the young Huguette, who loves him. Will Eric play along or try to re-win Gilberte's affection? Can Gilberte play one off against another? And who will manage to kiss whom on the lips?

A Perfect Plan
21% Match

Successful woman in love tries to break her family curse of every first marriage ending in divorce, by dashing to the altar with a random stranger before marrying her boyfriend.

French Twist
21% Match

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.

The Party 2
21% Match

A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.

Love Is in the Air
20% Match

Antoine is a lawyer living in New York. On his way back to France for the final round of a job interview, Antoine finds himself sitting right next to his ex-girlfriend Julie. With a seven-hour flight ahead of them, they are going to have to speak to each other.

Definitely, Maybe
20% Match

When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.

French Lover
20% Match

When a jaded actor meets a down-on-her-luck waitress in Paris, their unexpected love story begins — but will it survive the glare of the spotlight?

The Wedding Date
20% Match

With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of traveling alone to London for the ceremony. While this is bad enough, Jeffrey, the man who left her as they moved closer to marriage, happens to be the groom's best man. Determined to show everyone -- most of all Jeffrey -- that her romantic life is as full and thrilling as ever, Kat hires a charming male escort as her date.

Pardon Mon Affaire
19% Match

On an otherwise normal day, Étienne, a happily married man and a good father, sees something that stops him dead in his tracks: a gorgeous woman in a billowing red dress. Long after she has left his vision, her memory continues to haunt his mind. He falls instantly in love with her and tries everything to get to know her better. Helping Étienne snare his elusive lady in red are his three bumbling buddies, which all have secret affairs and/or cheat on their wives.

Lars and the Real Girl
19% Match

Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size plastic woman. On the advice of a doctor, his family and the rest of the community go along with his delusion.

That Obscure Object of Desire
18% Match

After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.