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10 Best Movies Like L'Ami qui n'existe pas

If you loved L'Ami qui n'existe pas, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Heaven

Heaven

2019★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to L'Ami qui n'existe pas for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers...

#2
American Son

American Son

2019★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to L'Ami qui n'existe pas for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son....

#3
Freshman Father

Freshman Father

2010★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to L'Ami qui n'existe pas for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When high school sweethearts John and Kathy find out Kathy is pregnant, they decide to get married and move to Cambridge so John can fulfill his scholarship to Harvard. But faced w...

#4
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to L'Ami qui n'existe pas for fans of Drama & TV Movie. 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 ...

#5
Cheaters

Cheaters

2000★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to L'Ami qui n'existe pas for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition....

#6
L'Emprise

L'Emprise

2015★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to L'Ami qui n'existe pas for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

"L'emprise" is the story of a drama, adapted from the moving book-witness "Acquitted", by Alexandra Lange. The story of a mother of four children, which is found in March 2012 in t...

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