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10 Best Movies Like The Salt of Life

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

#1
Mid-August Lunch

Mid-August Lunch

2008★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Salt of Life for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Gianni is a middle-aged man living in Rome with his imposing and demanding elderly mother. His only outlet from her and the increasing debt into which they are sinking, are the inc...

#2
Blue Gate Crossing

Blue Gate Crossing

2002★ 7.1

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

Yueh-chen has an obsession with her classmate Shihao, but is too shy to confess to him directly. She sends in her best friend, Kerou, to act as a go-between, and Shihao ends up fal...

#3
Things from Another World

Things from Another World

2011★ 5.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Salt of Life for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Maroso Golfetto, a firm manager from Veneto, is known for his frequent yelling at his employees, who are either immigrants or Southern Italians. He regularly appears on the local T...

#4
Package, Double Package and Counterpackage

Package, Double Package and Counterpackage

1993★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Salt of Life for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

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#5
Shame

Shame

2011★ 6.9

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

Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily...

#6
Asteroid City

Asteroid City

2023★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Salt of Life for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events....