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10 Best Movies Like Even When Life is Sad, People Still Have a Good Time

If you loved Even When Life is Sad, People Still Have a Good Time, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Good Life

The Good Life

2014★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Even When Life is Sad, People Still Have a Good Time for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Sylvain and Pierre have been running from the law ever since a custody battle with their mother pushed their father Yves into hiding ten years ago. But now that they’re older, the ...

#2
My Friends Act III

My Friends Act III

1985★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Even When Life is Sad, People Still Have a Good Time for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistib...

#3
Scrat's Continental Crack-Up

Scrat's Continental Crack-Up

2010★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Even When Life is Sad, People Still Have a Good Time for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

You may think you know the history of continental drift, but forget all that. In pursuit of his most sought after possession, Scrat manges to singled-handedly alter the course of E...

#4
As

As

2023★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Even When Life is Sad, People Still Have a Good Time for fans of . It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Three years after the death of her beloved child, Elouise, Mara still feels her presence when she sits on the butterfly bedding in front of the jar with her ashes in it. Mara arran...

#5
Jim's Story

Jim's Story

2024★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Even When Life is Sad, People Still Have a Good Time for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Aymeric runs into Florence, a former coworker, one evening in Saint-Claude in the Haut-Jura. She is six months pregnant and single. When she gives birth to Jim, Aymeric is there. T...

#6
The Cuckoo

The Cuckoo

2002★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Even When Life is Sad, People Still Have a Good Time for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of t...