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10 Best Movies Like Those Happy Years

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

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#1
Red Desert

Red Desert

1964★ 7.3

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

In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband....

#2
La Notte

La Notte

1961★ 7.9

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

A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan....

#3
Remember Me, My Love

Remember Me, My Love

2003★ 5.8

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

A middle-class Italian family is tore apart when the father meets an old flame, the mother—a frustrated onetime actress—auditions for a play, their insecure son tries to make frien...

#4
Strangers When We Meet

Strangers When We Meet

1960★ 6.3

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

A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street....

#5
Moonstruck

Moonstruck

1987★ 6.9

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

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him...

#6
Come Undone

Come Undone

2010★ 5.9

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

Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a man who longs for a stable longterm relationship with children, home, etc. Anna,...

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