100+ Good Slice-of-Life Movies & Shows to Watch

Art imitates life, and so it is with cinema that depitcs the mundanity of everyday life. Slip away from your to-do-list and inhabit another character’s everyday universe with our roun-dup of the best slice of life movies to stream.

Train Dreams (2025)
Train Dreams (2025)
7.8
Movie

Train Dreams (2025)

Based on the 2011 novella of the same name, Train Dreams depicts the life of Robert Grainier in the first…

Left-Handed Girl (2025)
Left-Handed Girl (2025)
7.6
Movie|Cannes

Left-Handed Girl (2025)

Left-Handed Girl is titled after I-Jing, the youngest daughter of the Ching family, whose left-handedness puts her at odds with…

Hal & Harper
Hal & Harper
7.3
Show

Hal & Harper

Following his sophomore feature Cha Cha Real Smooth, writer-director Cooper Raiff made his way to television with family dramedy Hal…

Hard Truths (2024)
Hard Truths (2024)
8.2
Movie|BAFTA · Spirit

Hard Truths (2024)

Hurt people hurt people, the saying goes, and nowhere is that more evident than in Hard Truths. Directed by Mike…

His Three Daughters (2024)
His Three Daughters (2024)
8.2
Movie|Spirit Winner

His Three Daughters (2024)

Not everybody holds a good relationship with their sisters, but ideally, we get to reunite and repair things in a…

Touch (2024)
Touch (2024)
7.7
Movie|Spirit

Touch (2024)

With the internet able to connect people from miles away, the concept of the one that got away has become…

Blue Box
Blue Box
7.6
Show

Blue Box

When a show is focused on a kid and their sport, chances are, the main character holds a passion for…

Housekeeping for Beginners (2024)
Housekeeping for Beginners (2024)
7.8
Movie|Venice

Housekeeping for Beginners (2024)

Only a few people in Dita’s house are related by blood, but you wouldn’t know that by how they move.…

Small Things Like These (2024)
Small Things Like These (2024)
7.4
Movie|Berlin Winner

Small Things Like These (2024)

Small Things Like These is the kind of film that doesn’t have a grand resolution, a dramatic climax, or a…

One Day
One Day
7.8
Show|Berlin

One Day

With a film version that didn’t live up to the hype of the original novel, Netflix’s adaptation of One Day…

Boy Swallows Universe
Boy Swallows Universe
7.8
Show

Boy Swallows Universe

Coming-of-age shows are practically Netflix’s bread-and-butter, but the working class side of Brisbane in the 80’s is a suburb we…

Bird (2024)
Bird (2024)
7.3
Movie|BAFTA · Cannes

Bird (2024)

Given the genre being centered on a child protagonist, many coming-of-age stories sideline parents in the narrative, sometimes to the…

Fancy Dance (2024)
Fancy Dance (2024)
7.6
Movie

Fancy Dance (2024)

Before she captivated the film world with her performance in Scorcese’s crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon, Lily Gladstone…

We Live in Time (2024)
We Live in Time (2024)
7.3
Movie

We Live in Time (2024)

For better or for worse, every romantic relationship anyone will ever have will end. This isn’t a bitter statement single…

We Grown Now (2024)
We Grown Now (2024)
7.4
Movie|Spirit

We Grown Now (2024)

Places evoke certain emotions, but even the most rundown, cramped projects feel special when they’re home. We Grown Now is…

Stonewalling (2024)
Stonewalling (2024)
7.5
Movie|Venice

Stonewalling (2024)

At two hours and nearly 30 minutes, Stonewalling is quite long. The third film from spouses Ryuji Otsuka and Huang…

House of Ninjas
House of Ninjas
7.5
Show

House of Ninjas

From the fantasy-powered folktales to superhero-like depictions, ninjas have captivated the world, but seem to be a relic of the…

BARTENDER Glass of God
BARTENDER Glass of God
7.6
Show

BARTENDER Glass of God

Regardless of age, most viewers would be familiar with the way alcoholic drinks are portrayed in the media as a…

Spermworld (2024)
Spermworld (2024)
7.3
Movie

Spermworld (2024)

For people having difficulty bearing a child, artificial insemination is one way to go for parenthood, but going to sperm…

Maamla Legal Hai
Maamla Legal Hai
7.3
Show

Maamla Legal Hai

With the stakes involved in plenty of cases, legal dramas tend to be more serious and dramatic. However, sometimes, ludicrous…

A Round of Applause
A Round of Applause
7.4
Show

A Round of Applause

A Round of Applause is just so darn weird. We’ve seen stories about people remembering their past lives, but we’ve…

Expats
Expats
7.3
Show

Expats

With immigration being a vastly different experience across race, gender, and origin country, it can be easy to dismiss Amazon…

God Save Texas
God Save Texas
7.5
Show|Sundance

God Save Texas

Sometimes thinking about your home state can feel complicated, because while it’s your home, the events and issues and controversies…

Perfect Days (2023)
Perfect Days (2023)
8.3
Movie|Oscar · Cannes Winner · Cannes

Perfect Days (2023)

For public toilet cleaner Hirayama, “enjoy the little things in life” is more than just an adage: it’s a philosophy.…

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
8.4
Show

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House

On the surface, The Makanai is a simple, slice-of-life show about food and friendship. While it is that, to be…

Terrestrial Verses (2023)
Terrestrial Verses (2023)
7.8
Movie|Cannes

Terrestrial Verses (2023)

Since we live in a society, interacting with authority is inescapable. Terrestrial Verses depict fairly mundane day-to-day interactions– getting a…

Fremont (2023)
Fremont (2023)
8.0
Movie|Sundance · Spirit Winner · Spirit

Fremont (2023)

Aptly for a film partly set in a fortune cookie factory, Fremont deals with luck — specifically, the other side…

Carol & the End of the World
Carol & the End of the World
8.0
Show

Carol & the End of the World

The end of the world isn’t the most optimistic thing to think about, but the scenario leads you to thinking…

You Hurt My Feelings (2023)
You Hurt My Feelings (2023)
7.9
Movie

You Hurt My Feelings (2023)

Who among us hasn’t committed a white lie to save a relationship? And who among us hasn’t yearned for the…

Falling in Love Like in Movies (2023)
Falling in Love Like in Movies (2023)
7.8
Movie

Falling in Love Like in Movies (2023)

Given the title, it isn’t surprising that Falling in Love Like in Movies would be a metanarrative with the main…

The Old Oak (2023)
The Old Oak (2023)
7.9
Movie|Cannes · BAFTA

The Old Oak (2023)

Renowned British director Ken Loach’s signature traits are present in The Old Oak: simple, humanistic, and unapologetically hopeful. But this…

American Fiction (2023)
American Fiction (2023)
7.9
Movie|Oscar · SAG · Spirit Winner

American Fiction (2023)

On the one hand, American Fiction is a razor-sharp satire that pokes fun at the hypocrisy of the literary and…

The Parades (2024)
The Parades (2024)
7.2
Movie

The Parades (2024)

When it comes to ghosts, plenty of films are centered around personal, unresolved business in the living world, but rarely…

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023)
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023)
7.8
Movie|Sundance

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023)

Nakedness has been demonized or at least, has been considered inappropriate outside of certain situations. One such situation is the…

Yellow Door: ’90s Lo-fi Film Club (2023)
Yellow Door: ’90s Lo-fi Film Club (2023)
7.7
Movie

Yellow Door: ’90s Lo-fi Film Club (2023)

Given a budget from Netflix to make a documentary on Korean film, some would have chosen instead to make one…

Abang Adik (2023)
Abang Adik (2023)
7.4
Movie

Abang Adik (2023)

At the fringes of society, sometimes, all you have is your family. You would do all you can to feed,…

How to Have Sex (2023)
How to Have Sex (2023)
7.7
Movie|Sundance · Cannes · BAFTA

How to Have Sex (2023)

While named as a “how-to”, How to Have Sex is less of an instruction manual, and more of a collection…

Here (2024)
Here (2024)
7.0
Movie|Cannes

Here (2024)

You would think that a movie about making soup for your friends and studying moss would be a strange mix,…

Mambar Pierrette (2024)
Mambar Pierrette (2024)
7.2
Movie|Cannes

Mambar Pierrette (2024)

If given the outline of this film, it might be easy to just call it poverty porn. But there’s a…

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