10 Best Movies Like Looking for Happiness
If you loved Looking for Happiness, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Girl in the Box
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Looking for Happiness for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as ...

The Young One
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Looking for Happiness for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

By the Bluest of Seas
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Looking for Happiness for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Two men shipwrecked on an island in the Caspian Sea are saved by members of a collective farm, where they work on its fishing boats and woo the young woman leading the fishermen....

Farming
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Looking for Happiness for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

I Am David
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Looking for Happiness for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deli...

SubUrbia
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Looking for Happiness for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults....