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10 Best Movies Like It's a Flickering Life

If you loved It's a Flickering Life, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Girl in the Book

The Girl in the Book

2015★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It's a Flickering Life for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present....

#2
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It's a Flickering Life for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

#3
Wonderstruck

Wonderstruck

2017★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It's a Flickering Life for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection....

#4
The Secret Life of Bees

The Secret Life of Bees

2008★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It's a Flickering Life 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...

#5
Mank

Mank

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It's a Flickering Life for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane....

#6
Abraham

Abraham

1993★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It's a Flickering Life for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mankind... A man of great faith, A...

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