Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 15, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Anansi

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

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#1
Nine Lives

Nine Lives

2005★ 6.1

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

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life....

#2
Not Easily Broken

Not Easily Broken

2009★ 6.3

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

A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple....

#3
Life in a Year

Life in a Year

2020★ 8.2

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

A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left....

#4
Blind

Blind

2017★ 6.2

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

A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife ...

#5
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

#6
Love at Twenty

Love at Twenty

1962★ 6.7

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

Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the...

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