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10 Best Movies Like SIMPLE LIFE SYNDROME

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

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#1
Blood and Bones

Blood and Bones

2004★ 6.6

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

In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kama...

#2
The Nest

The Nest

2020★ 6.1

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

Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of the...

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to SIMPLE LIFE SYNDROME 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...

#4
Taboo

Taboo

1999★ 6.6

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

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in t...

#5
1-Ichi

1-Ichi

2003★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to SIMPLE LIFE SYNDROME for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

We follow Ichi during his high school years. Mr. Dai is the best fighter in school... whenever he fights Ichi is there and has a huge smile on his face. Mr. Dai thinks that Ichi is...

#6
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to SIMPLE LIFE SYNDROME 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...

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