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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.

#1
Minions & More Volume 1

Minions & More Volume 1

2022★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 40 for fans of Animation. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

This collection of 10 short films produced by Illumination includes: From the "Despicable Me" franchise: Puppy (2013); Minion Scouts (2019); Training Wheels (2013); The Secret Life...

#2
40

40

2010★ 5.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 40 for fans of . It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

This film is the record of a traumatic reaction to the terrorist acts in the Moscow subway of March 29, 2010....

#3
Mank

Mank

2020★ 6.7

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

1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane....

#4
Love, Bitter

Love, Bitter

2009★ 4.1

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

Orhan, who works as a literature professor at a university in Eskisehir, unexpectedly ends his relationship with Ayse whom he was planning to marry, and comes to Istanbul where he ...

#5
Inside Ghibli's Creation: 400 Days of Clash Between Hayao Miyazaki and The New Director

Inside Ghibli's Creation: 400 Days of Clash Between Hayao Miyazaki and The New Director

2010★ 9.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 40 for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Stepping closer and closer to his retirement, Hayao Miyazaki has no other means, but to choose up a new director. Ghibli's given some creative freedoms in the past, but they hardly...

#6
A Tale of Three Sisters

A Tale of Three Sisters

2019★ 7.1

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

A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as 'besleme' (foster child and maid). Since they fail their foster parents fo...