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10 Best Movies Like Afterlife: Beyond the Light

If you loved Afterlife: Beyond the Light, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Gilbert

Gilbert

2017★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Afterlife: Beyond the Light for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

The life and career of one of comedy's most inimitable modern voices, Mr. Gilbert Gottfried....

#2
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me

Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me

2023★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Afterlife: Beyond the Light for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

From the heights of her modeling fame to her tragic death, this documentary reveals Anna Nicole Smith through the eyes of the people closest to her....

#3
Listen to Me Marlon

Listen to Me Marlon

2015★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Afterlife: Beyond the Light for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Mar...

#4
Casting By

Casting By

2012★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Afterlife: Beyond the Light for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Marion Dougherty and shines a light on one of the most overlooked and least unders...

#5
Hawking

Hawking

2013★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Afterlife: Beyond the Light for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

The extraordinary story of the planet’s most famous contemporary scientist, told in his own words and by those closest to him. Made with unique access to Hawking’s private life, th...

#6
My Mom Jayne

My Mom Jayne

2025★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Afterlife: Beyond the Light for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Through deeply personal interviews with her siblings and an examination of the photographs, letters, and belongings left behind, Mariska assembles a new portrait of her mother Jayn...

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