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10 Best Movies Like Apart from Life

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

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#1
The Girl in the Book

The Girl in the Book

2015★ 5.8

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

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present....

#2
A Question of Faith

A Question of Faith

2017★ 7.4

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

When Tragedy Strikes three Families, their Destiny forces them on a coverging path and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs...

#3
The Trials of Cate McCall

The Trials of Cate McCall

2013★ 6.4

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

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicte...

#4
Trees of Peace

Trees of Peace

2021★ 7.2

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

Four women from different backgrounds forge an unbreakable sisterhood while trapped and in hiding during the genocide in Rwanda....

#5
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

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

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

#6
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.7

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

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody....

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