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10 Best Movies Like I Want to Live!

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

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#1
The Lazarus Project

The Lazarus Project

2008★ 6.0

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

After Ben Garvey foolishly turned back to crime, he thought his life was over when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. But his death sentence isn't quite what it seems, ...

#2
Just Mercy

Just Mercy

2019★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Want to Live! for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sent...

#3
The Blue Gardenia

The Blue Gardenia

1953★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Want to Live! for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspe...

#4
Knock on Any Door

Knock on Any Door

1949★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Want to Live! for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court....

#5
Winged Creatures

Winged Creatures

2009★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Want to Live! for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts h...

#6
Killer's Kiss

Killer's Kiss

1955★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Want to Live! for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Ra...

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