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10 Best Movies Like How It Ends

If you loved How It Ends, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Magnolia

Magnolia

1999★ 7.7

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

On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game sh...

#2
All About Nina

All About Nina

2018★ 5.9

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

Nina Geld's passion and talent have made her a rising star in the comedy scene, but she's an emotional mess offstage. When a new professional opportunity coincides with a romantic ...

#3
The Secret Life of Bees

The Secret Life of Bees

2008★ 7.5

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

Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationshi...

#4
Suburbia

Suburbia

1984★ 6.7

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

When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like...

#5
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

#6
10,000 Saints

10,000 Saints

2015★ 6.0

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

A sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled ...

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