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10 Best Movies Like Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead

If you loved Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Little Fockers

Little Fockers

2010★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get in with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. After the cash-strapped dad tak...

#2
Blindman

Blindman

1971★ 5.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead for fans of Western. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A blind, but deadly, gunman, is hired to escort fifty mail order brides to their miner husbands. His business partners double cross him, selling the women to bandit Domingo. Blindm...

#3
Why Go On Killing?

Why Go On Killing?

1965★ 5.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead for fans of Western. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A young deserter from the army returns to the place where his father has been killed by a family of Mexican landowners. The task is not easy as he is alone in his efforts to avenge...

#4
Back to the Future

Back to the Future

1985★ 8.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty mu...

#5
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...

#6
The Godfather

The Godfather

1972★ 8.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attemp...