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Movies Like They Loved Life

If you liked They Loved Life (1963), a movie directed by Ahmad Safaei, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1The Magnificent Ambersons

    The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

    ★ 7.3/10

    The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

  2. 2Bride Wars

    Bride Wars (2009)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Two best friends become rivals when their respective weddings are accidentally booked for the same day.

  3. 3The Children Act

    The Children Act (2018)

    ★ 6.6/10

    In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.

  4. 4Guess Who

    Guess Who (2005)

    ★ 6.1/10

    When a young African-American woman brings her fiancé home to meet her parents, she's neglected to mention one tiny detail – he's white.

  5. 5The Fabelmans

    The Fabelmans (2022)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him…

  6. 6Plus One

    Plus One (2019)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Longtime single friends, Ben and Alice, agree to be each other's respective plus one at every wedding they're invited to, during a busy summer of wedding fever.

  7. 7Vivacious Lady

    Vivacious Lady (1938)

    ★ 7/10

    College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.

  8. 8The Wedding Year

    The Wedding Year (2019)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A commitment-phobic 27-year old’s relationship is put to the test when she and her boyfriend attend 7 weddings in the same year.

  9. 9Terror Tract

    Terror Tract (2000)

    ★ 6/10

    A real estate agent terrifies a couple with the grim fates of the previous owners of a house they're looking at.

  10. 10Made for Each Other

    Made for Each Other (1939)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.

  11. 11My Big Fat Greek Wedding

    My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.

  12. 12Last Chance Harvey

    Last Chance Harvey (2008)

    ★ 6.3/10

    In London for his daughter's wedding, a struggling jingle-writer, Harvey Shine, misses his plane to New York, and thus loses his job. While drowning his sorrows in the airport pub, Harvey meets Kate, a British…

  13. 13American Wedding

    American Wedding (2003)

    ★ 6.2/10

    With high school a distant memory, Jim and Michelle are getting married — and in a hurry, since Jim's grandmother is sick and wants to see him walk down the aisle — prompting Stifler to throw the ultimate bachelor…

  14. 14Clash by Night

    Clash by Night (1952)

    ★ 6.7/10

    An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.

  15. 15You Again

    You Again (2010)

    ★ 6.3/10

    History -- make that high school -- may repeat itself when Marni learns that Joanna, the mean girl from her past, is set to be her sister-in-law. Before the wedding bells toll, Marni must show her brother that a tiger…

  16. 16The War of the Roses

    The War of the Roses (1989)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Barbara and Oliver Rose live happily as a married couple. When Barbara starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver and likes what she sees, the two begin a campaign to force each other to leave their house…

  17. 17Middle of the Night

    Middle of the Night (1959)

    ★ 7/10

    Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 50s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a romance with divorced 24-year-old receptionist Betty. The relationship…

  18. 18That Old Feeling

    That Old Feeling (1997)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A bride's divorced parents find their old feelings for each other during the wedding reception and over the course of the next few days upsetting the newlywed's honeymoon.

  19. 19For Keeps

    For Keeps (1988)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Young high school couple Darcy Elliot and Stan Bobrucz are one year from graduation, with promising futures ahead of them. But their paths take a drastic turn when Darcy becomes pregnant. Unwilling to go through an…

  20. 20Four Weddings and a Funeral

    Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

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