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10 Best Movies Like A Useful Life

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

#1
The Fog of War

The Fog of War

2003★ 7.7

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

Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid milit...

#2
Extraordinary Stories

Extraordinary Stories

2008★ 7.7

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

X arrives in a small town and witnesses a violent act; Z takes the job of a dead manager and discovers that he had a notebook written in code and a map; H is hired to go down a riv...

#3
Topless

Topless

2008★ 5.0

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

The ever-lively and upbeat Natsuko tries to mend a broken heart by carrying on with a string of short-lived affairs after her break-up with Tomomi. But when Tomomi announces her pl...

#4
Siete semillas

Siete semillas

2016★ 6.0

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

This story tells how Ignacio Rodriguez, manager of a textile export company, lives so absorbed in his work that it creates personal crisis which leads to the hospital. After this e...

#5
Black Dog

Black Dog

2023★ 8.0

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

Two teenagers from London take an unexpected road trip North as each of them tries to understand how loss and grief have shaped their young minds....

#6
Rushmore

Rushmore

1998★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Useful Life for fans of Drama & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to ...