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10 Best Movies Like On Borrowed Time

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

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#1
The Magic of Ordinary Days

The Magic of Ordinary Days

2005★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On Borrowed Time for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII....

#2
The Hunchback

The Hunchback

1997★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On Borrowed Time for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on Victor Hugo's famed novel, the story of Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame, and his unrequited love for the gypsy girl, Esmeralda....

#3
Heaven

Heaven

2019★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On Borrowed Time for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers...

#4
Rip Girls

Rip Girls

2000★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On Borrowed Time for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A teen-age girl and her father come to an island on Hawaii, they find a closer relationship to each other and think about changing the island. During her adventures, Sydney finds f...

#5
Borrowed Hearts

Borrowed Hearts

1997★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On Borrowed Time for fans of Drama & Fantasy & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Single mom Kathleen Russell (Roma Downey) and her daughter Zoey pretend to be Kathleen's boss's "family" so he can close a major business deal with the mysterious Mexican financier...

#6
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On Borrowed Time for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

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