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10 Best Movies Like The Afterlife

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

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#1
Defending Your Life

Defending Your Life

1991ā€¢ā˜… 6.9

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

Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased m...

#2
The Intern

The Intern

2015ā€¢ā˜… 7.2

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

70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an o...

#3
The Family Man

The Family Man

2000ā€¢ā˜… 6.8

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

Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next ...

#4
Inner Workings

Inner Workings

2016ā€¢ā˜… 7.8

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

This is the story of the internal struggle between a man's Brain—a pragmatic protector who calculates his every move, and his Heart—a free-spirited adventurer who wants to let loos...

#5
Heart and Souls

Heart and Souls

1993ā€¢ā˜… 6.9

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

A fateful night in 1959, four people die when the bus they are riding crashes. They continue as ghosts; their souls become eternally entwined to the life of a child born at the mom...

#6
Taking Care of Business

Taking Care of Business

1990ā€¢ā˜… 6.3

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

An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him....

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