Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 11, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Before and After

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

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#1
Petulia

Petulia

1968★ 5.9

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

Dr. Archie Bollen is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife and is establishing a new life for himself. One night, he catches the eye of Petulia Danner, a charming, f...

#2
Hello I Must Be Going

Hello I Must Be Going

2012★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Before and After for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An affair with a 19-year old actor helps reinvigorate life for thirty-something Amy after she moves home to her parents’ house following her divorce....

#3
Dangerous

Dangerous

1935★ 6.6

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

Don Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to spons...

#4
Alex of Venice

Alex of Venice

2015★ 5.9

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

After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by hers...

#5
Strangers When We Meet

Strangers When We Meet

1960★ 6.3

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

A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street....

#6
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Before and After 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 ...

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