Films and TV shows that feel like That's Life by Frank Sinatra
A defiant, wry shrug at life's ups and downs: you get knocked flat, you pick yourself up, and you keep going with a grin.
- Ocean's Eleven (1960): The Rat Pack at peak swagger, treating a Vegas gamble as a stylish shrug at fate.
- Catch Me If You Can (2002): A 1960s con-man caper full of reinvention, rises and falls, and a wink at consequences.
- Mad Men (2007): Sixties ambition, self-invention and getting back up after each fall, all with a drink in hand.
- GoodFellas (1990): A rise-and-fall hustle set to crooner standards, told with gallows humour.
- Casino (1995): Vegas fortunes made and lost, with the same wheel-of-fate attitude.
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017): Knocked down and back up on stage in a vibrant, brassy period setting.
- The Wolf of Wall Street (2013): Excess, collapse and an unrepentant refusal to stay down.
- Boardwalk Empire (2010): Period gangsters riding fortune's swings, with Prohibition-era swagger and fatalism.