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10 Best Movies Like Eager to Live

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

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#1
Euphoria

Euphoria

2018★ 6.5

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

Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living in the shadows, still in the s...

#2
Norman

Norman

2010★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Eager to Live 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....

#3
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man

Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man

1981★ 6.5

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

The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the verge of bankruptcy the owner hatches a plan to use the ransom money as reinvestme...

#4
Reality

Reality

2012★ 7.1

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

A dark comedy centering on the lives of a Neapolitan based family whose father, a fish merchant, is so infatuated with the reality TV show "Grande Fratello" (the Italian version of...

#5
The Butcher

The Butcher

1998★ 6.0

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

Alina is a brilliant and enterprising woman who runs a successful art gallery in Palermo. Her husband Daniele, a successful orchestra conductor, cultured and intelligent, is not a ...

#6
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

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