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10 Best Movies Like Eager to Live

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

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#1
Euphoria

Euphoria

2018★ 6.5

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

Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living in the shadows, still in the s...

#2
Five Seconds

Five Seconds

2025★ 6.7

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

Adriano is a middle-aged man living in a dilapidated villa in Tuscany, when a group of young idealistic students arrives to restore the villa's vineyards....

#3
Everybody's Fine

Everybody's Fine

1990★ 7.3

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

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit an...

#4
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#5
The Butcher

The Butcher

1998★ 6.0

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

Alina is a brilliant and enterprising woman who runs a successful art gallery in Palermo. Her husband Daniele, a successful orchestra conductor, cultured and intelligent, is not a ...

#6
The Wait

The Wait

2015★ 6.2

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

In the vast rooms of a beautiful Sicilian villa, Anna receives an unexpected guest. Twenty-something Jeanne has arrived from France, declaring herself to be the girlfriend of Anna’...

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