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10 Best Movies Like Happy Days

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

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#1
Life Is Sweet

Life Is Sweet

1990★ 7.0

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

Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, N...

#2
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

1976★ 7.0

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

13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives in a New England beach town. Whenever the landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she claims that he's not available. But when the landlady's son, Fran...

#3
Re-Animated

Re-Animated

2006★ 6.4

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

Jimmy is the kid everybody ignores and uses. One day, he gets into a freak accident. The only way for him to survive is a brain transplant. He gets the brain of Milt Appleday, a fa...

#4
Re-Elected

Re-Elected

2020★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happy Days for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Friends battle former U.S. presidents when they come back from the dead as zombies on the Fourth of July....

#5
Alice

Alice

1990★ 6.3

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

Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults herbalist Dr. Yang, who realize...

#6
The World of Apu

The World of Apu

1959★ 8.1

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

Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old college friend on a trip up-country to a village wedding....