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10 Best Movies Like How I Live Now

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

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#1
My Little Princess

My Little Princess

2011★ 6.4

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

Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is an unpredictable photographer ...

#2
April Apocalypse

April Apocalypse

2013★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Live Now for fans of Romance. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Artie is pure bred trailer trash. He has zero ambition, is everyone's favorite punching back at school and bears the burden of his virginity in silence. And then April moves out of...

#3
The Age of Stupid

The Age of Stupid

2009★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Live Now for fans of War. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had th...

#4
Any Day Now

Any Day Now

2012★ 7.0

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

In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangemen...

#5
Copperman

Copperman

2019★ 5.6

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

Despite his adult age, Anselmo behaves like a child and takes up the role of a superhero called "Copperman."...

#6
Dakota's Summer

Dakota's Summer

2014★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Live Now for fans of Family. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Cowgirls 'n Angels Dakota's Summer tells the story of Dakota Rose, a cowgirl and competitive trick rider who finds out at the age of seventeen that she was adopted. She secretly se...