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10 Best Movies Like This Life

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

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#1
J. Edgar

J. Edgar

2011★ 6.2

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

As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that ...

#2
Flickering Lights

Flickering Lights

2000★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Life for fans of Action. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to ...

#3
Zappa

Zappa

1983★ 7.1

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

Denmark, 1961. Bjørn, a middle-class boy in his early teens, wants to be accepted by Steen, a bullying peer of his with wealthy but freezingly cold parents. Bjørn's other good frie...

#4
King Kong

King Kong

2005★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Life for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immedi...

#5
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#6
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

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

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...