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10 Best Movies Like Illegal Lives

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

#1
The Magician

The Magician

2006★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Illegal Lives for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Failed magician Iskender decides to do a tour to save his career, but has to bring his grumpy and senile father along. The tour is quite unexpectedly interrupted when a bride actua...

#2
The Foster Brothers

The Foster Brothers

1976★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Illegal Lives for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Saban, Ramazan and Bayram are sailors in an Ottoman Navy and Hüsamettin is their commander. Hüsamettin's aide Ramazan, Saban who is foster son of Hüsamettin's sister and Bayram who...

#3
Your Place or Mine

Your Place or Mine

2023★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Illegal Lives for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When best friends and total opposites Debbie and Peter swap homes for a week, they get a peek into each other's lives that could open the door to love....

#4
Escape from Pretoria

Escape from Pretoria

2020★ 7.2

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

South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape ...

#5
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre

Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre

2023★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Illegal Lives for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Special agent Orson Fortune and his team of operatives recruit one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars to help them on an undercover mission when the sale of a deadly new weapons te...

#6
The Internship

The Internship

2013★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Illegal Lives for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s....