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10 Best Movies Like Lust for Life

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

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#1
At Eternity's Gate

At Eternity's Gate

2018★ 7.0

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

Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him....

#2
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

1998★ 6.0

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

In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, accepts. After the unique begi...

#3
Final Portrait

Final Portrait

2017★ 6.0

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

Paris, 1964. The Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, one of the most accomplished and respected artists of his generation, asks his friend, the American writer James Lor...

#4
Pollock

Pollock

2000★ 6.7

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

In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back ...

#5
Modigliani

Modigliani

2004★ 7.0

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

Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, h...

#6
Nightwatching

Nightwatching

2007★ 6.3

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

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night W...

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