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10 Best Movies Like That Was Life

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

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#1
The Artist and the Model

The Artist and the Model

2012★ 6.1

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

In occupied France in summer 1943, a world-weary famous sculptor finds the desire to work again with the arrival of a beautiful young Spanish refugee....

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to That Was Life 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...

#3
Sin tetas no hay paraíso

Sin tetas no hay paraíso

2010★ 7.3

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

Catalina is a young, beautiful girl living in extreme poverty with her brother Bayron and her mother Hilda. She becomes obsessed with getting breast implants to get social status a...

#4
Post Tenebras Lux

Post Tenebras Lux

2012★ 6.1

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

Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complimentary or if they strive to el...

#5
The King of Havana

The King of Havana

2015★ 6.8

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

Recently escaped from reformatory, Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, g...

#6
The Miracle of Marcelino

The Miracle of Marcelino

1955★ 7.3

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

Left on the doorstep of a monastery as an infant, Marcelino was raised by the monks. He was well-cared for but lonely and missed having a mother. One day he found a special friend ...

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