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Movies Like Your Happiness Depends on Me

If you liked Your Happiness Depends on Me (2006), a comedy and drama movie directed by Sören Senn, 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. 1Good Neighbor Sam

    Good Neighbor Sam (1964)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy

    To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion relies on his wholesome and moral…

  2. 2Woman of Straw

    Woman of Straw (1964)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.

  3. 3State of the Union

    State of the Union (1948)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and drama

    An industrialist is urged by Republican Party strategists to run for U.S. President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.

  4. 4Please Give

    Please Give (2010)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.

  5. 5Blithe Spirit

    Blithe Spirit (1945)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy

    While holding a séance for skeptical novelist Charles Condomine, self-proclaimed 'spiritualist medium' Madame Arcati inadvertently summons the spirit of his deceased first wife Elvira, leading to an increasingly…

  6. 6Angel Face

    Angel Face (1953)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.

  7. 7Better Living Through Chemistry

    Better Living Through Chemistry (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and comedy

    A straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possibly murder.

  8. 8Pitfall

    Pitfall (1948)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.

  9. 9The Importance of Being Earnest

    The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy

    Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.

  10. 10The Terminal

    The Terminal (2004)

    ★ 7.4/10Also comedy and drama

    An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.

  11. 11The Bra

    The Bra (2019)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    Train driver Nurlan’s heading to Baku for the last time before retirement, but on his fateful journey around the neighborhoods of the city his train snags a blue bra off a washing line. To escape from his lonely…

  12. 12It Runs in the Family

    It Runs in the Family (2003)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile

  13. 13Harvey

    Harvey (1950)

    ★ 7.7/10Also comedy

    The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to…

  14. 14Witness for the Prosecution

    Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

    ★ 8.2/10Also drama

    An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a…

  15. 15Table 19

    Table 19 (2017)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    Eloise, having been relieved of maid of honor duties after being unceremoniously dumped by the best man via text, decides to attend the wedding anyway – only to find herself seated with five fellow-unwanted guests at…

  16. 16Uptown Girls

    Uptown Girls (2003)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy and drama

    Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny to Ray - the precocious, oft-ignored daughter of a music executive - she learns what…

  17. 17My Girl

    My Girl (1991)

    ★ 7.4/10Also comedy and drama

    Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J…

  18. 18The Upside

    The Upside (2019)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy and drama

    Phillip is a wealthy quadriplegic who needs a caretaker to help him with his day-to-day routine in his New York penthouse. He decides to hire Dell, a struggling parolee who's trying to reconnect with his ex and his…

  19. 19Woman Times Seven

    Woman Times Seven (1967)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetwalking for revenge, a prudish girl surprises, a neglected wife vies for her husband's attention, a fight over a dress…

  20. 20The Locket

    The Locket (1946)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

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