10 Best Movies Like Happiness Must Be Protected
If you loved Happiness Must Be Protected, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

A Driver for Vera
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happiness Must Be Protected for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private ch...

The Coach
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happiness Must Be Protected for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team....

An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happiness Must Be Protected for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate....

Farming
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happiness Must Be Protected for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

My Joy
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happiness Must Be Protected for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Georgy is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police at a border crossing, he finds himself giving a lift to a strange old man with d...

That Evening Sun
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happiness Must Be Protected for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm....