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10 Best Movies Like The Forty-Year-Old Version

If you loved The Forty-Year-Old Version, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Time

Time

2020★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Forty-Year-Old Version for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together while fighting for the release of her incarcerated husband. An intimate, epic, and ...

#2
Disclosure

Disclosure

2020★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Forty-Year-Old Version for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about the...

#3
Stickman

Stickman

2017★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Forty-Year-Old Version for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

The thing that waits under your bed, hides in the closet, stalks your dreams… is waiting for you. At least Emma Wright knew that at the age of 7 when she was wrongly accused of mur...

#4
Dreambuilders

Dreambuilders

2020★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Forty-Year-Old Version for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Minna, a young girl, misuses her newfound ability to create and control other people’s dreams to teach her bothersome stepsister a lesson. When her stepsister can no longer wake up...

#5
A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting

A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting

2020★ 6.2

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

Recruited by a secret society of babysitters, a high schooler battles the Boogeyman and his monsters when they nab the boy she's watching on Halloween....

#6
Soul Kitchen

Soul Kitchen

2009★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Forty-Year-Old Version for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef....