10 Best Movies Like We Want to Live
If you loved We Want to Live, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
Boxcar Bertha
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Want to Live for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
"Boxcar" Bertha Thompson, a transient woman in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30s, meets up with rabble-rousing union man "Big" Bill Shelly and the tw...
Winged Creatures
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Want to Live for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts h...
The River
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Want to Live for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer a...
Mansfield Park
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Want to Live for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the wo...
Won't Back Down
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Want to Live for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken...
God Is a Bullet
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Want to Live for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the ...