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10 Best Movies Like Life, Animated

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

#1
The Windermere Children

The Windermere Children

2020★ 7.4

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

The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere....

#2
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

2016★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Life, Animated for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her exuberant life during some of Ameri...

#3
Anina

Anina

2013★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Life, Animated for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Anina Yatay Salas is a ten-year-old whose name spells trouble: those three palindromes in a row are an ongoing source of teasing at school. When a playground fight results in myste...

#4
Twin Sisters

Twin Sisters

2013★ 8.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Life, Animated for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In 2003, the infant Chinese twin sisters Mia and Alexandra were found in a cardboard box. They ended up in an orphanage and were put up for adoption, at which time the authorities ...

#5
Mad Hot Ballroom

Mad Hot Ballroom

2005★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Life, Animated for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Eleven-year-old New York City public school kids journey into the world of ballroom dancing and reveal pieces of themselves and their world along the way. Told from their candid, s...

#6
Aren't You Happy?

Aren't You Happy?

2019★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Life, Animated for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A girl roams through the city looking for a place to sleep. Along the way she meets young mothers who celebrate motherhood religiously, goes home with an abstinent existentialist f...