10 Best Movies Like Once and for a Lifetime
If you loved Once and for a Lifetime, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The Young One
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once and for a Lifetime for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

Flights in Dreams and in Reality
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once and for a Lifetime for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the clos...

Charm City Kings
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once and for a Lifetime for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse ...

The End of St. Petersburg
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once and for a Lifetime for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work....

Imperial Dreams
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once and for a Lifetime 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...

The Thief
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once and for a Lifetime for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Katya and her 6-year-old son Sanya, who, in 1952, meet a veteran Soviet officer named Tolyan. Katya falls in love with Tolyan, who turns out to be a small time criminal, but who al...