Movies like The Diary of a Chambermaid: 20 to watch next
If you loved The Diary of a Chambermaid (2026) — a drama and comedy film directed by Radu Jude — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of The Diary of a Chambermaid most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like based on novel or book, fairy tale and halloween. 2 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Céline and Julie Go Boating 1974★ 6.8
Shares: Comedy, Drama
Julie, a daydreaming librarian, meets Céline, an enigmatic magician, and together they become the heroines of a time-warping adventure involving a haunted house, psychotropic candy, and a murder-mystery melodrama.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Chocolat 2016★ 6.8
Shares: Comedy, Drama
Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer Footit in the very popular in Belle Epoque Paris. But easy money, gambling, and discrimination take their toll on their friendship and Chocolat's career.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Open at Night 2017★ 6.0
Shares: Drama, Comedy
One night to change everything. One night to save a theater, one night to change one's perspective about life. Luigi will push and pull Faeza with him everywhere around Paris an entire night to save his theater.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet 2012★ 6.5
Shares: Drama
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play 'Eurydice'. These actors watch a recording performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It's up to them to decide. And the surprises have only just begun...
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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All Three of Us 2015★ 7.5
Shares: Drama, Comedy
An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolution, prison, beatings, assassinations and suicides this is a comedy.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Diary of a Chambermaid 1964★ 7.1
Shares: Drama, Comedy
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Under the Stars of Paris 2021★ 6.7
Shares: Drama, Comedy
Christine’s life has not been easy lately. Her lonely routine is divided between free food banks distributions and wandering the streets. On a cold winter night she founds Suli, an 8-year-old Eritrean boy, sobbing in front of her shelter. Christine understands that he is lost and has been separated from his mother. Bounded by their marginal condition, they embark together on an emotional journey to find Suli’s mother in the underground world of Paris...
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah 2023★ 6.5
Shares: Comedy, Drama
Stacy and Lydia are BFFs who've always dreamed about having epic bat mitzvahs. But things start to go comically awry when a popular boy and middle school drama threatens their friendship and their rite of passage.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Better Living Through Chemistry 2014★ 5.9
Shares: Drama, Comedy
A straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possibly murder.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Moxie 2021★ 7.2
Shares: Comedy, Drama
Inspired by her mom's rebellious past and a confident new friend, a shy 16-year-old publishes an anonymous zine calling out sexism at her school.
Stream in India on Netflix
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See The Sea 2025★ 6.1
Shares: Comedy, Drama
A young boy who gradually loses sight goes on a getaway vacation with his divorced parents.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Girl from Paris 2001★ 6.5
Shares: Drama, Comedy
A woman in her thirties gets tired of life in Paris and decides to leave and become a farmer.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds 1972★ 7.3
Shares: Drama
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood 2002★ 6.0
Shares: Comedy, Drama
In a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated mother and let go of her painful past.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Lost in Paris 2017★ 6.1
Shares: Comedy
Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Beautiful Person 2008★ 6.5
Shares: Drama, Comedy
In the wake of her mother's tragic death, French teenager Junie transfers to a different high school. Though Junie lives mostly inside her own head, her beauty and stoicism win her the attention of the entire male student population. Junie begins dating the gentle Otto Cleves, but finds herself intensely drawn to her youthful Italian language teacher, Nemours. When Nemours begins to reciprocate, serious complications ensue.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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FX's A Christmas Carol 2019★ 7.2
Shares: Drama
London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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On My Way 2013★ 6.4
Shares: Drama, Comedy
Deneuve plays sassy grandmother Bettie who takes to the road after being betrayed by her lover and learning her business is on the verge of bankruptcy on the same day. During a weeklong odyssey across France, she spends time with a grandson she hardly knows and reconnects with her past as former Miss Brittany through a reunion for former beauty queens.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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A Few Days with Me 1988★ 5.9
Shares: Comedy, Drama
After being discharged from a mental institution, a man is tasked by his mother to revive a struggling supermarket in Limoges. He must navigate unexpected responsibilities and the challenges of managing the store's staff.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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My Little Princess 2011★ 6.5
Shares: Drama
Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is an unpredictable photographer who lives off of the generosity of others. When Hannah forces her daughter to pose as a model, Violetta finds her life with her loving grandmother turned upside down.The resulting pictures quickly become a sensation for the trendy 70's Paris art scene, and Violetta finds herself caught in between her new stature as an art muse and her dull childhood.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now