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10 Best Movies Like Life Actually

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

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#1
The Taste of Apple Seeds

The Taste of Apple Seeds

2013★ 6.0

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

When Bertha dies, her granddaughter Iris inherits her house and finds herself back in the home where she and her cousin used to play dressing-up in the summer holidays. While she w...

#2
Home for the Holidays

Home for the Holidays

1995★ 6.2

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

After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending th...

#3
Above Us Only Sky

Above Us Only Sky

2011★ 5.9

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

A woman discovers the man she has lived with for years is not who she thought he was......

#4
Neue Vahr Süd

Neue Vahr Süd

2010★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Life Actually for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Frank Lehmann, 20, still lives with his parents in the dreary high-rise housing project "Neue Vahr" in Bremen. It's the year 1980 and Frank gets drafted to the army even though his...

#5
Beste Zeit

Beste Zeit

2007★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Life Actually for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Kati drives the VW bus of her parents even without a license quite fast. But what else should one do in the Bavarian province? Kati and her best friend Jo keep asking themselves th...

#6
After We Fell

After We Fell

2021★ 7.0

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

Just as Tessa's life begins to become unglued, nothing is what she thought it would be. Not her friends nor her family. The only person that she should be able to rely on is Hardin...