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10 Best Movies Like A Well Spent Life

If you loved A Well Spent Life, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Insider

The Insider

1999★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Well Spent Life for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco....

#2
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

1963★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Well Spent Life for fans of Action. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those ...

#3
My Friends Act III

My Friends Act III

1985★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Well Spent Life for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistib...

#4
Unfaithfully Yours

Unfaithfully Yours

1948★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Well Spent Life for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Before he left for a brief European visit, symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter casually asked his staid brother-in-law August to look out for his young wife, Daphne, during his...

#5
Epidemic

Epidemic

1987★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Well Spent Life for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A director and screenwriter pen a script and, in the process, blur the line between fiction and reality....

#6
The 39 Steps

The 39 Steps

1935★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Well Spent Life for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads ...