Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Jan 21, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Good Life

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

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#1
Even When Life is Sad, People Still Have a Good Time

Even When Life is Sad, People Still Have a Good Time

2005★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Good Life for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A partially destroyed fragment of Powell and Pressburger's 1951 Technicolor dream film "Tales of Hoffman", becomes a site of a ruptured fantasy....

#2
Havana Quartet

Havana Quartet

1999★ 4.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Good Life for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Walter, an aspiring musician from Madrid, has a lot of troubles. After finding a videotape, he learns something which will alter his whole life, and put his Madrid problems on hold...

#3
Main Street on the March!

Main Street on the March!

1941★ 5.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Good Life for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

This Best Short Subject Academy Award winning film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the Nazi occupation of the Benelux countries, and ends immediately after the Japanese a...

#4
Camping 2

Camping 2

2010★ 4.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Good Life for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Jean-Pierre Savelli is a forty-something employee of an insurance company in Clermont-Ferrand who finds himself facing a mid-life crisis. When his fiancée Valérie decides to put th...

#5
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World

Spy Kids: All the Time in the World

2011★ 4.7

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

Eight years after the third film, the OSS has become the world's top spy agency, while the Spy Kids department has since become defunct. Retired spy Marissa is called back into act...

#6
Journey Across the Mainland

Journey Across the Mainland

1988★ 5.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Good Life for fans of . It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Joseph Kuo's final film....