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10 Best Movies Like Parallel Lives

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

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#1
The Color of Rain

The Color of Rain

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Parallel Lives for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After cancer claims Matt Kell's life on Christmas Day 2005, his widow, Gina and two young boys are left to cope with the pain of his loss while their close church community gathers...

#2
Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels

2004★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Parallel Lives for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote....

#3
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

#4
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

1999★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Parallel Lives for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat ou...

#5
The Ron Clark Story

The Ron Clark Story

2006★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Parallel Lives for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Passionate and innovative teacher Ron Clark leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. But to break through to the students, he must use unconventional...

#6
TalhotBlond

TalhotBlond

2012★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Parallel Lives for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately lead...

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