Related Titles
Movies Like The Dead Man and Being Happy
Find movies like The Dead Man and Being Happy (2013) using TMDB similarity plus Movie Rankings community context. Our top current pick is Rain Man. Browse 18 related titles with direct links to rankings, cast pages, and matchup data.
These picks blend TMDB similar-title seeds with Movie Rankings community ranking context.
Open The Dead Man and Being Happy
Jump to the canonical movie page for ranking stats, credits, and deeper discovery paths.
See where to watch The Dead Man and Being Happy
Check current US streaming, rental, and purchase options for The Dead Man and Being Happy.
Compare The Dead Man and Being Happy
Browse popular head-to-head ranking pages and jump into a matchup for The Dead Man and Being Happy.
Language ranking
See how The Dead Man and Being Happy compares with other top-ranked Spanish drama movies.
Best Spanish Drama Movies
Studio ranking
See where The Dead Man and Being Happy lands among the top-ranked movies associated with Eddie Saeta.
Open best eddie saeta movies
Explore Language Rankings
Best Spanish Thriller Movies
See how The Dead Man and Being Happy compares with other top-ranked Spanish thriller movies.
Best Spanish Movies of 2013
See how The Dead Man and Being Happy compares with other top-ranked Spanish movies from 2013.
Best Spanish Movies
See how The Dead Man and Being Happy compares with other top-ranked Spanish movies.

Rain Man
Community rank #251 · 1988
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.

The Seventh Seal
1957
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

Paris, Texas
1984
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

Wild Strawberries
1957
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

Dances with Wolves
1990
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

Absolut
2005
Two guys against globalization want to plant a virus in the network of a finance corporation. On the day of the attack Alex has an accident and cannot remember anything. Visions and reality are thrown together in a confusing maze. Alex tries to escape from this muddle but what he discovers turns out to be rather frightening…

The Grapes of Wrath
1940
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.

The Straight Story
1999
Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. He then has the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.

Little Miss Sunshine
2006
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966
A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.

Ordinary Angels
2024
Inspired by the incredible true story of a hairdresser who single-handedly rallies an entire community to help a widowed father save the life of his critically ill young daughter.

Dark Waters
2019
A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.

A Perfect World
1993
A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.

Our Hospitality
1923
A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

People on Sunday
1930
A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.

Snow Cake
2006
A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.

Starship Troopers
1997
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs."

The Red Virgin
2024
Hildegart is conceived and educated by her mother Aurora to be the woman of the future, to become one of the most brilliant minds of Spain in the 1930s and one of the European references on female sexuality.
What are the best movies like The Dead Man and Being Happy?
Rain Man is the strongest current recommendation on this page for viewers looking for movies like The Dead Man and Being Happy.
How many recommendations are on the The Dead Man and Being Happy page?
This page currently lists 18 related titles for The Dead Man and Being Happy.
How often does the Movies Like The Dead Man and Being Happy page update?
This page refreshes whenever Movie Rankings rebuilds the related-title view for The Dead Man and Being Happy. It was last generated from site data on May 14, 2026.
Sources & freshness
Last refreshed from site data on May 14, 2026.