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10 Best Movies Like Happy Birthday

If you loved Happy Birthday, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
A World Without Thieves

A World Without Thieves

2004★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happy Birthday for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A con-team couple head west after taking a city businessman for his BMW. But an encounter with a naive young carpenter traveling home with his life savings challenges their fate as...

#2
Godspeed

Godspeed

2016★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happy Birthday for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A Taiwanese drug mule has his foolproof smuggling method thrown out of whack when he catches a ride with the wrong cab driver....

#3
Hugo

Hugo

2011★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happy Birthday for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his mo...

#4
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happy Birthday for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#5
Inside Out

Inside Out

2015★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happy Birthday for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city, her Emotions team up to help her through the transition. Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness work together, but when Joy and Sadness g...

#6
American Beauty

American Beauty

1999★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happy Birthday for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend....