Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 14, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Before I Leave

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

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#1
Ashes in the Snow

Ashes in the Snow

2018★ 6.4

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

The coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin's reign of terror in the Baltic region during WWII. An aspiring artist, she secretly docume...

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#3
Norman

Norman

2010★ 6.1

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

A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness....

#4
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Before I Leave 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 ...

#5
Jonathan

Jonathan

2018★ 5.9

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

Jonathan is a young man with a strange condition that only his brother understands. But when he begins to yearn for a different life, their unique bond becomes increasingly tested...

#6
Life in a Year

Life in a Year

2020★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Before I Leave for fans of Drama. 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....

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