The 400 Blows (1959)

Movies like The 400 Blows

24 films close to The 400 Blows (1959) on how it feels, not just what shelf it sits on — with what each one shares with it underneath.

black and white, paris, france · Drama

bitter, calm, gentle · Drama

calm, black and white · Drama

Also François Truffaut · black and white, paris, france · Drama · Les Films du Carrosse

coming of age, semi autobiographical · Drama

coming of age, semi autobiographical · Drama

coming of age, semi autobiographical · Drama

black and white · Drama

coming of age, black and white · Drama

8½
1963

semi autobiographical, black and white · Drama

fingerprint · Drama

Also François Truffaut · paris, france, adolescence · Drama · with Patrick Auffay and Jean-Pierre Léaud · Les Films du Carrosse

semi autobiographical · Drama

bitter, coming of age · Drama

semi autobiographical · Drama

paris, france · Drama

paris, france · Drama

paris, france, black and white · Drama

black and white · Drama

paris, france, black and white · Drama

semi autobiographical · Drama

Close on feel, same era · Drama

black and white · Drama

black and white · Drama

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Matches are drawn from Cinnamon DB’s emotional fingerprint — a reading of how a film actually plays rather than how it is catalogued — then weighted by shared subject, cast, studio and era. That is why a documentary can sit beside a space epic, and why the same director appears at most twice.