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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
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...

#2
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 ...

#3
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...

#4
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...

#5
Those People

Those People

2015★ 6.9

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

On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist....

#6
You Don't Know Jack

You Don't Know Jack

2010★ 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.

Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide....

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