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10 Best Movies Like Why We Live

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

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#1
Wonder

Wonder

2017★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Why We Live for fans of Family. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time....

#2
Ex Machina

Ex Machina

2015★ 7.6

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

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But ...

#3
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Why We Live for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#4
PK

PK

2014★ 7.7

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

A stranger in the city asks questions no one has asked before. Known only by his initials, the man's innocent questions and childlike curiosity take him on a journey of love, laugh...

#5
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Why We Live 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 Why We Live 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...