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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
Shéhérazade

Shéhérazade

2018★ 7.2

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

Zachary, 17 years old, gets out of jail. Rejected by his mother, he hangs out in the mean streets of Marseille. He falls in love with Shéhérazade, a young prostitute of whom he bec...

#2
Our Ties

Our Ties

2022★ 6.3

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

Moussa has always been gentle, altruistic and present for his family. This is the opposite of his brother Ryad, a TV presenter of great notoriety who is reproached for his selfishn...

#3
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....

#4
Finally Dawn

Finally Dawn

2024★ 6.1

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

A young Roman woman during the 1950s is on the verge of becoming engaged to a man. She goes to Cinecittà to do an audition as an extra and is thrust into this almost infinite night...

#5
The Turning Point

The Turning Point

2021★ 6.2

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

A slacker who does his best to avoid confrontation strikes up an unlikely friendship with a dangerous thug who suddenly forces his way into his life....

#6
3 Faces

3 Faces

2018★ 6.7

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

Filmmaker Jafar Panahi and actor Behnaz Jafari travel to a tiny village after receiving a plea for help from a girl whose family has forbidden her from studying acting. Amusing enc...