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10 Best Movies Like A Great Life

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

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#1
The Stoker

The Stoker

2010★ 6.1

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

A shell-shocked Afghanistan war hero named Ivan Skryabin (Mikhail Skryabin) spends his days stoking the fire in a giant coal furnace. When he isn’t tending the flames, he keeps bus...

#2
Siberian Education

Siberian Education

2013★ 6.8

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

The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The onl...

#3
Sisters

Sisters

2001★ 6.7

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

A movie about two sisters - thirteen year old Sveta, poor and abandoned by her father, who longs to go off and be a sniper in the army, and spoilt eight-year old Dina, doted on by ...

#4
The Thief

The Thief

1997★ 7.1

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

Katya and her 6-year-old son Sanya, who, in 1952, meet a veteran Soviet officer named Tolyan. Katya falls in love with Tolyan, who turns out to be a small time criminal, but who al...

#5
Bummer 2

Bummer 2

2006★ 5.9

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

The film takes place a few years after the events shown in Bummer. Kostyan "Kot", who lost all his friends, the woman he loved and was nearly killed in the first installment of the...

#6
Mob Town

Mob Town

2019★ 6.4

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

Based on the true story of the notorious 1957 ‘mob summit’ in upstate New York. Spearheaded by Vito Genovese, more than 50 leaders of the organized crime syndicates from around the...

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