10 Best Movies Like Life Has Passed By
If you loved Life Has Passed By, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The Stoker
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Life Has Passed By for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A shell-shocked Afghanistan war hero named Ivan Skryabin (Mikhail Skryabin) spends his days stoking the fire in a giant coal furnace. When he isn’t tending the flames, he keeps bus...

My Friend Ivan Lapshin
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Life Has Passed By for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well....

The Coach
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Life Has Passed By for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team....

Imperial Dreams
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Life Has Passed By for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Ang...

Babylon
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Life Has Passed By for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

The System
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Life Has Passed By for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figu...