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10 Best Movies Like Life During Wartime

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

#1
Secrets & Lies

Secrets & Lies

1996★ 7.6

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

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white wo...

#2
Happiness

Happiness

1998★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Life During Wartime for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate se...

#3
Foxtrot

Foxtrot

2017★ 6.7

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

A troubled family must face facts when tragedy strikes their son's desolate military post....

#4
Bellflower

Bellflower

2011★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Life During Wartime for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Two friends spend all their free time building flame-throwers and weapons of mass destruction in hopes that a global apocalypse will occur and clear the runway for their imaginary ...

#5
Dark Horse

Dark Horse

2012★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Life During Wartime for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Abe is a man who is in his thirties and who lives with his parents. He works regretfully for his father while pursuing his hobby of collecting toys. Aware that his family doesn't t...

#6
Polina

Polina

2016★ 6.6

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

Polina is a young dancer from a modest family. After years of ballet academy, she is accepted by the Bolshoi; still, she decides to try and audition of a modern dance company in Fr...