Movies like The Life Cycle of a Song (1907)
The best movies like The Life Cycle of a Song (1907) are My Wife's Relations (1922), Why Worry? (1923) and Police (1916). If The Life Cycle of a Song hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
The Life Cycle of a Song
Quick picks
- Highest ratedA Trip to the Moon (1902)7.9/10 from 2,108 votes
- NewestLOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour (2026)Released 2026
- In FrenchLOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour (2026)Also in French
My Wife's Relations (1922)
Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large inheritance awaiting him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhy Worry? (1923)
A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPolice (1916)
Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Night in the Show (1915)
Two disruptive theater patrons, the wealthy drunk Mr. Pest (played by Charlie Chaplin) and the rowdy working-class Mr. Rowdy (also played by Chaplin), attend a live vaudeville theater production. Their constant antics, seat-hopping, and physical altercations quickly overshadow the acts on stage and plunge the entire theater into absolutely hilarious chaos.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMabel's Married Life (1914)
Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Chaplin Revue (1959)
Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisShanghaied (1915)
A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Charlie. Charlie assists in the galley and attempts to serve food during a gale.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNever Weaken (1921)
A young man schemes to drum up business for his girlfriend's employer but after seeing her being intimate with another man, he attempts to commit suicide.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Knight for a Day (1946)
By accident, Cedric (Goofy), replaces his master, Sir Loinsteak, in the armor just before the joust with champion Sir Cumference.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Woman (1915)
Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the bench fall for Charlie and invite him for dinner. The father returns home with a friend. Charlie rushes upstairs and dresses like a woman, shaving his mustache. Both men fall for Charlie.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisConvict 13 (1920)
A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrom Soup to Nuts (1928)
Inexperienced waiters (Laurel & Hardy) are hired for a swank dinner party.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDough and Dynamite (1914)
Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBig Business (1929)
Stan and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen in California. They end up getting into an escalating feud with grumpy would-be customer James Finlayson, with his home and their car being destroyed in the melee.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Frozen North (1922)
A mix of guns and mistaken identity leads to chaos in this satirical parody of William S. Hart's melodramatic westerns, finding Buster in the frozen north - "the last stop on the subway".
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHis Mouse Friday (1951)
Tom is shipwrecked on an island, which is inhabited by at least one mouse - Jerry. To thwart the hungry cat, Jerry disguises himself as a cannibal.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisForky Asks a Question: What Is a Computer? (2019)
Trixie explains to Forky what a computer does as they experience the common stresses of technology.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour (2026)
At 55, Anne is finally enjoying her freedom after her children leave home. But everything changes when her 23-year-old daughter, Louise, moves back in with her after a professional and romantic failure. And to make matters worse, her son, Théo, announces that she's going to be a grandmother! Anne realizes that life never goes as planned and that, at any age, we are still learning to grow up.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBack Stage (1919)
Roscoe and Buster give a bullying Strongman the what-for, but after the performance troupe quits it's up to Fatty and Buster to keep the show going.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCasanova Cat (1951)
Tom heads for a big city penthouse to become acquainted with a rich pretty female cat that lives there. He brings her Jerry as a gift and does some humiliating things to Jerry. Jerry, in turn, attracts the attention of another cat who also becomes interested in the female cat. It eventually turns into a fight between Tom and the other cat for the lady's hand but Jerry is the one who gets her in the end.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKing of the Cannibal Islands (1908)
Believed to be the first film to feature cannibals.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Evening Clothes (1927)
Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D'Artois, then leaves him for a more sophisticated man. D'Artois retaliates by moving to the city and learning the proper social graces. His new life style proves to be too expensive for him, and at the end he is left with nothing but one suit of evening clothes and his now contrite wife.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Too Many Kisses (1925)
Wanting his son to get away from his many girlfriends and buckle down to work, the New York industrialist father of a playboy sends him to an obscure village in Spain to find samples of a rare mineral. When the son gets to Spain, he promptly falls for a beautiful señorita, and runs afoul of the local police chief.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisNearly Married (1917)
Silent comedy, based on a 1913 stage play of the same title.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Two Old Tars (1913)
Two old tars, retired from service, live alone in a cottage by the sea. They sail along on an even keel, until a buxom and comely widow projects herself on the scene when one old tar breaks one of their unwritten laws and falls in love with her. The other old fellow objects strenuously.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
An Engagement of Convenience (1914)
A man fakes an engagement to a typist to please his rich aunt.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Live Your Life Smiling (1921)
Sitcom for 1920s cinemas about the Winter family.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
The Magic Glass (1914)
A boy uses a professor's liquid to make objects transparent.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Big Buck Bunny (2008)
Follow a day of the life of Big Buck Bunny when he meets three bullying rodents: Frank, Rinky, and Gamera. The rodents amuse themselves by harassing helpless creatures by throwing fruits, nuts and rocks at them. After the deaths of two of Bunny's favorite butterflies, and an offensive attack on Bunny himself, Bunny sets aside his gentle nature and orchestrates a complex plan for revenge.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Life Cycle of a Song?
The closest matches to The Life Cycle of a Song are My Wife's Relations (1922), Why Worry? (1923) and Police (1916). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Life Cycle of a Song?
Start with My Wife's Relations (1922), the closest match to The Life Cycle of a Song.
What is the highest-rated movie like The Life Cycle of a Song?
A Trip to the Moon (1902), rated 7.9/10 by 2,108 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Life Cycle of a Song?
LOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like The Life Cycle of a Song?
Yes: LOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour (2026) and A Trip to the Moon (1902).
How are movies similar to The Life Cycle of a Song chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Life Cycle of a Song, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.