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10 Best Movies Like A Reason to Live

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

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#1
Return to Reason

Return to Reason

1923★ 6.3

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

Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, the light-striped torso of Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin), a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dad...

#2
The Return

The Return

2024★ 6.5

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

After twenty years away, Odysseus washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The king has finally returned home, but much has changed in his kingdom since he le...

#3
Bonanza: The Return

Bonanza: The Return

1993★ 6.5

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

A man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to take over the Ponderosa....

#4
Kids Return

Kids Return

1996★ 6.9

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

Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a ...

#5
Jarhead: Law of Return

Jarhead: Law of Return

2019★ 6.5

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

Major Ronan Jackson, an accomplished fighter pilot for the Israel Defense Forces and son of a U.S. Senator, is shot down while flying through Syrian airspace. After miraculously su...

#6
Muriel, or the Time of Return

Muriel, or the Time of Return

1963★ 6.9

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

In the seaside town of Boulogne, no one seems to be able to cope with their past, least of all Hélène, an antique furniture saleswoman, her stepson Bernard, and her former lover Al...