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10 Best Movies Like Defending Your Life

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

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#1
Chances Are

Chances Are

1989★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Defending Your Life for fans of Romance & Fantasy & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate bring...

#2
A Matter of Life and Death

A Matter of Life and Death

1946★ 7.8

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

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl....

#3
Ghost

Ghost

1990★ 7.2

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

After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic....

#4
Jersey Girl

Jersey Girl

2004★ 6.2

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

Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single f...

#5
What Dreams May Come

What Dreams May Come

1998★ 7.2

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

Chris Nielsen dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife Annie killed herself a...

#6
Blind

Blind

2017★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Defending Your Life for fans of Romance & Drama. 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 ...

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