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10 Best Movies Like When I Was Alive

If you loved When I Was Alive, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Serena

Serena

2014★ 5.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Was Alive for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to an...

#2
In a World...

In a World...

2013★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Was Alive for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voice-over star. Amidst pride, sexism and f...

#3
Herself

Herself

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Was Alive for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws...

#4
Macabre

Macabre

2019★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Was Alive for fans of Thriller & Horror & Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

In the 1990s, two brothers were accused of murdering eight women, one man and one child in the Serra dos Órgãos region. In the eyes of the suspects, Sergeant Téo realizes that the ...

#5
Antichrist

Antichrist

2009★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Was Alive for fans of Thriller & Horror & Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to wor...

#6
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

2015★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Was Alive for fans of Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Burger Beard is a pirate who is in search of the final page of a magical book that makes any evil plan he writes in it come true, which happens to be the Krabby Patty secret formul...