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10 Best Movies Like A Better Life

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

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#1
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

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

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#3
TalhotBlond

TalhotBlond

2012★ 6.3

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

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately lead...

#4
All Together Now

All Together Now

2020★ 6.7

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

An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?...

#5
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

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

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

#6
My Dinner with Hervé

My Dinner with Hervé

2018★ 6.3

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

An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-ch...

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