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10 Best Movies Like 40

If you loved 40, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Life in a Year

Life in a Year

2020★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 40 for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left....

#2
Nine Lives

Nine Lives

2005★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 40 for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life....

#3
Two for the Seesaw

Two for the Seesaw

1962★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 40 for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After leaving his wife, lawyer Jerry Ryan moves from Omaha, Nebraska to New York City to start a new life. While studying for the New York Bar Examination and working to finalize h...

#4
Blind

Blind

2017★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 40 for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife ...

#5
Not Easily Broken

Not Easily Broken

2009★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 40 for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple....

#6
Ali and Nino

Ali and Nino

2016★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 40 for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s...

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