Movies like That's Life (1998)
The best movies like That's Life (1998) are My Friends (1975), My Friends Act II (1982) and Ask Me If I'm Happy (2000). If That's Life hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMy Friends (1975)8.1/10 from 778 votes
- NewestLike a Cat on a Highway 2 (2021)Released 2021
- In ItalianMy Friends (1975)Also in Italian
My Friends (1975)
Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisMy Friends Act II (1982)
The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAsk Me If I'm Happy (2000)
Aspiring thespians Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo work dead-end jobs while nurturing their dream production of Cyrano de Bergerac, until love for the same woman tears their friendship apart. Three years later, Giovanni and Giacomo reunite after learning that Aldo is dying.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThree Men and a Leg (1997)
Friends Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo cross Italy from north to south for Giacomo's wedding: the father of the bride, a despotic magnate who is both their boss and father-in-law—since Aldo and Giovanni have also married into the family not for love but for money, a fate now awaiting Giacomo—has entrusted them with a priceless piece of modern art, one that looks just like a rather unremarkable wooden leg.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisI Can Quit Whenever I Want (2014)
A university researcher is fired because of the cuts to university. To earn a living he decides to produce drugs recruiting his former colleagues, who despite their skills are living at the margins of society.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCiao, Professore! (1992)
A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSun in Buckets (2013)
The story of a father and a son. An on the road trip from South to North.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJohnny Stecchino (1991)
Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFantozzi in Heaven (1993)
One by one, with a sweet but inexorable rate, Ugo's colleagues, go to a better life. When Ugo is attending at one of the innumerable funerals, he and the priest remain involved in an accident. The doctor says that Ugo as only one week left to live
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Seduction of Mimi (1972)
Sicilian dockworker Mimi inadvertently becomes embroiled in an increasingly complicated array of personal conflicts. When he loses his job after voting against a Mafia kingpin in an allegedly secret election, Mimi leaves his wife to find new employment. He moves to Turin, where he engages in an affair with a Communist organiser. Soon, Mimi finds himself juggling two demanding relationships while plotting revenge against the corrupt forces that ruined his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisI'm Starting from Three (1981)
Gaetano, a young Neapolitan, decides to leave home, work and friends, to look for other moments of life and meet other people.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBe Sick… It's Free (1968)
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLike a Cat on a Highway 2 (2021)
Three years after her relationship with Giovanni, Monica is in prison and has to ask his ex for help.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOne Man Up (2001)
Two men, both named Antonio Pisapia, see their lives go downhill in 1980s Naples. One is a crooner embroiled in a sex scandal; the other is a football player whose career is cut short by an injury.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Immature (2011)
Six high school friends in their 40s who haven't seen each other in nearly 20 years rekindle their younger selves after a court cancels their diploma, forcing them to repeat the final high school exam.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLa matassa (2009)
Two cousins haven't spoken for almost twenty years, thanks to the enmity that their fathers feel toward one another. But an accident suddenly brings the cousins back together and thrusts them deep into the heart of the mafia.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSorry for the Delay (1983)
Vincenzo, a 30 years old apathetic and lazy man who still lives with his mother, has no job and no desire to improve. He meets Anna and fell in love with her but to keep the relationship alive he has to learn to accept more responsibility.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Marquis of Grillo (1981)
In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTel chi el telùn (1999)
A comedy show.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like this“The Shorts” by Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo (1996)
I Corti ("Shorts") by Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo was the first stage show of the comedy trio, with the participation of Marina Massironi. It was recorded live at the Teatro Nuovo in Ferrara on 28 and 29 March 1996. Produced by Agidi, with the theatre direction of Arturo Brachetti.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisFantozzi Still Suffers (1983)
After a hard day at work and a condominium-board meeting, accountant Ugo Fantozzi goes on a trip with his family. Unfortunately, he will face a nasty surprise upon his return.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCado dalle nubi (2009)
An aspiring singer from southern Italy who's just been dumped moves north to Milan, where he falls in love and enters a TV singing competition show.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLa febbre (2005)
Mario Bettini, a provincial land surveyor, is a thirty-year-old full of ideas and enthusiasm. He dreams of opening a venue with his friends, but when he is unexpectedly hired by the local municipality, he realizes that the new job clashes with his entrepreneurial spirit. It is a chance encounter with a young woman that opens his eyes to new possibilities for his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Tutta colpa di Freud (2014)
Francesco is a psychoanalyst grappling with three hopeless causes: a bookseller in love with a book thief, a lesbian hell-bent on becoming straight after a heartbreak, and an 18-year-old in a relationship with a much older married man. Unfortunately, these patients are also his three beloved daughters!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNothing Left to Do But Cry (1984)
Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStubborn Fate (1992)
Carolina Rambaldi isn't fulfilled by her three children: Marcello, a lazy do-nothing, Lucrezia, a bossy type who produces a TV show, and Cesare, homosexual and malicious, who's a sociologist. When she writes her will, Carolina leaves her property to the one child who's married and had a child in the past year and a half.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Kick the Cock (2008)
Kick the Cock is an old Dutch saying, meaning Peek in the Kitchen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisDearest Relatives, Poisonous Relations (1992)
During the annual Christmas gathering at the family home, the parents surprise their children by announcing their decision to move in with one of them and pass on the house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMy Friends Act III (1985)
This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNothing to Lose (1997)
Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose attempted carjacking goes awry when Nick takes him on an involuntary joyride. Soon the betrayed businessman and the incompetent crook strike up a partnership and develop a robbery-revenge scheme. But it turns out that some other criminals in the area don't appreciate the competition.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like That's Life?
The closest matches to That's Life are My Friends (1975), My Friends Act II (1982) and Ask Me If I'm Happy (2000). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after That's Life?
People who watched That's Life most often go on to My Friends (1975), My Friends Act II (1982) and Ask Me If I'm Happy (2000).
What is the highest-rated movie like That's Life?
My Friends (1975), rated 8.1/10 by 778 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like That's Life?
Like a Cat on a Highway 2 (2021) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Italian movies like That's Life?
Yes: My Friends (1975), My Friends Act II (1982) and Ask Me If I'm Happy (2000).
How are movies similar to That's Life chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside That's Life, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.