10 Best Movies Like (How) To Be Dead
If you loved (How) To Be Dead, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Post Tenebras Lux
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to (How) To Be Dead for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complimentary or if they strive to el...

Martin (Hache)
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to (How) To Be Dead for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
After having a nearly fatal drug overdose, 19-year-old Argentine Martin is sent to Madrid, where his film director father lives with his new, younger lover, Alicia, and his bisexua...

The Miracle of Marcelino
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to (How) To Be Dead for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Left on the doorstep of a monastery as an infant, Marcelino was raised by the monks. He was well-cared for but lonely and missed having a mother. One day he found a special friend ...

All Day and a Night
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to (How) To Be Dead for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

The King of Havana
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to (How) To Be Dead for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Recently escaped from reformatory, Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, g...

Cardboard Boxer
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to (How) To Be Dead for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl....