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10 Best Movies Like Alive

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

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#1
Akeelah and the Bee

Akeelah and the Bee

2006★ 7.0

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

11-year-old Akeelah Anderson has a way with words. After winning her schoolwide spelling bee, she decides to enter the competition, despite her classmates' derision and the antipat...

#2
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

2005★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Alive for fans of Drama & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Four best friends (Tibby, Lena, Carmen & Bridget) who buy a mysterious pair of pants that fits each of them, despite their differing sizes, and makes whoever wears them feel fa...

#3
Jem and the Holograms

Jem and the Holograms

2015★ 5.5

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

As a small-town girl catapults from underground video sensation to global superstar, she and her three sisters begin a one-in-a-million journey of discovering that some talents are...

#4
Danielle Steel's Zoya

Danielle Steel's Zoya

1997★ 4.8

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

A young Russian countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America....

#5
Paddington

Paddington

2014★ 7.1

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

A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven...

#6
Bram Stoker's Dracula

Bram Stoker's Dracula

1992★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Alive for fans of Romance. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Centuries-old vampire Count Dracula travels to Victorian London, where he becomes obsessed with Mina Murray—the fiancée of his solicitor, Jonathan Harker—believing her to be the re...