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10 Best Movies Like Only Once in a Lifetime

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

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#1
Holy Lands

Holy Lands

2019★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Only Once in a Lifetime for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours...

#2
Gigi & Nate

Gigi & Nate

2022★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Only Once in a Lifetime for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend....

#3
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Only Once in a Lifetime for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#4
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Only Once in a Lifetime for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Only Once in a Lifetime 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...

#6
Sergio

Sergio

2020★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Only Once in a Lifetime for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most tr...

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