Movies Like Life Goes On (1965)

Life Goes On is a 1965 drama film from Fernando Fernán Gómez with a MovieMagicScore of 7.1/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with 32 Malasana Street and The Beast Must Die.

Drama

32 Malasana Street

2020

Malasaña neighborhood, Madrid, Spain, 1976. While political turmoil ravages the streets all over the country, the Olmedo family arrives in the big city and settles into their new apartment. They soon discover that they are not the only ones roaming its corridors.

6.5

MagicScore

The Beast Must Die

1952

A crime writer searching for the truth about a personal tragedy becomes involved in a murder investigation.

7.1

MagicScore

The Man Who Invented Christmas

2017

In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.

6.8

MagicScore

Enough

2002

Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of their first child, her picture perfect life is shattered when she discovers Mitch's hidden possessive dark side, a controlling and abusive alter ego that can turn trust, love and tranquility into terror. Terrified for her child's safety, Slim flees with her daughter. Relentless in his pursuit and enlisting the aid of lethal henchmen, Mitch continually stalks the prey that was once his family.

6.7

MagicScore

The Poseidon Adventure

1972

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

7.1

MagicScore

Running with Scissors

2006

Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.

5.7

MagicScore

Diabolique

1996

The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed scheme to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The psychological strain starts to weigh on the two women when a retired police investigator begins looking into the man's disappearance on a whim.

5.5

MagicScore

Cria!

1976

Ana, an eight-year-old girl living in Madrid with her grandmother and two sisters, mourns the death of her mother.

7.5

MagicScore

Law of Desire

1987

Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transgender sister, Tina. Antonio, an uptight young man, falls possessively in love with the director and in his passion would stop at nothing to obtain the object of his desire.

7.1

MagicScore

#10

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

1984

A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.

7.1

MagicScore

#11

The Sleeping Voice

2011

Finished the Spanish Civil War in April 1939, in November 1940, while Spain is being crushed by the ruthless boot of dictator Franco, Pepita travels from rural Córdoba to Madrid to be near her sister Hortensia, who is seven months pregnant and imprisoned, haunted by the shadow of a death sentence.

6.7

MagicScore

#12

Venus

2022

Lucía, a club dancer on the run, takes refuge in a sinister building on the outskirts of Madrid where her sister Rocío lives with her daughter Alba.

6.2

MagicScore

#13

A Place Close to Heaven

1952

On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired again. With so much poverty and despair Pedro believes that his only way out is suicide.

8.2

MagicScore

#14

The Boss: Anatomy of a Crime

2014

This incredibly disturbing story follows the exploitation of an apprentice butcher, Hermógenes, and his trial after he murders his boss in broad daylight. Hermógenes, a farmhand from northern Argentina, relocates to Buenos Aires in search of a better life for himself and his young wife, but soon finds himself at the mercy of a corrupt boss. The film is based on a thorough investigation of a real event that happened in Buenos Aires 10 years ago. Almost every scene in the film is inspired by real facts or based on well documented daily practices of the “meat business” and its environment. Both a shocking exposé of unscrupulous practices in the meat industry and a heart-wrenching personal story, El Patrón became one of the most successful Argentine films of 2014.

7.6

MagicScore

#15

Days of Heaven

1978

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

7.5

MagicScore

#16

My Own Private Idaho

1991

In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.

7.1

MagicScore

#17

That Happy Couple

1953

Juan and Carmen are a humble couple living in Madrid. She does the housework and he works as an electrician in a film studio. Their dreams of wellness come true when they win a contest sponsored by a soap brand.

6.5

MagicScore

#18

Dolores Claiborne

1995

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.

7.3

MagicScore

#19

Women Talking

2022

A group of women in an isolated religious colony struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.

6.9

MagicScore

#20

Safe Haven

2013

A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.

7.2

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Life Goes On?

The top films similar to Life Goes On by MovieMagicScore are 32 Malasana Street (6.5), The Beast Must Die (7.1), The Man Who Invented Christmas (6.8). Each shares drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Life Goes On worth watching?

Life Goes On holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.1/10 from 23 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Life Goes On?

Life Goes On (1965) is a drama film directed by Fernando Fernán Gómez, starring Lina Canalejas, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Gemma Cuervo.

Where can I find more recommendations like Life Goes On?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more drama recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Life Goes On

This ranked list pairs Life Goes On (1965), a drama film from Fernando Fernán Gómez, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Lina Canalejas take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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