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10 Best Movies Like This World We Live In

If you loved This World We Live In, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Mammal

Mammal

2016★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This World We Live In for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his i...

#2
Pariah

Pariah

2011★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This World We Live In for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression....

#3
Requiem for a Dream

Requiem for a Dream

2000★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This World We Live In for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep....

#4
Trainspotting

Trainspotting

1996★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This World We Live In for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane...

#5
Stuart: A Life Backwards

Stuart: A Life Backwards

2007★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This World We Live In for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers f...

#6
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This World We Live In for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

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