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10 Best Movies Like Life is Excellent

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

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#1
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling

2016★ 7.9

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

Andrew Dominik's One More Time With Feeling is a remarkable black and white documentary which chronicles the creation of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' album Skeleton Tree. Originally ...

#2
Mifune: The Last Samurai

Mifune: The Last Samurai

2016★ 7.1

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

An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema....

#3
Loving Vincent

Loving Vincent

2017★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Life is Excellent for fans of Animation. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there....

#4
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

1998★ 6.0

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

In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, accepts. After the unique begi...

#5
Collateral Beauty

Collateral Beauty

2016★ 7.2

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

Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and...

#6
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

2018★ 7.1

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

As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind....

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