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10 Best Movies Like It's a Great Day

If you loved It's a Great Day, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
A Kid

A Kid

2016★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It's a Great Day for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Matthieu is a 33 year old Parisian who finds out that the father he never knew has died and decides to go to his funeral in order to meet his two siblings in Quebec. But once in Mo...

#2
The Family Friend

The Family Friend

2006★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It's a Great Day for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relation...

#3
The Hunting Ground

The Hunting Ground

2015★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It's a Great Day for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A startling expose of rape crimes on US campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and their families. The film follows the lives of se...

#4
100 Things

100 Things

2018★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It's a Great Day for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Best friends Toni and Paul decide to relinquish all of their belongings for 100 days, whereby they receive one of their items back on each day. During this challenge the two realiz...

#5
Café Lumière

Café Lumière

2004★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It's a Great Day for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregna...

#6
Tanaka Reina ~Re:~

Tanaka Reina ~Re:~

2008★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It's a Great Day for fans of . It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

6th Photobook shot in Okinawa & Tokyo & Hokkaido & Hawaii....