15 Movies Like Life and a Day

Loved Life and a Day? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

Good Boy
#1

Good Boy

Tommy, a volatile 19-year-old, revels in drugs, parties and violence. After getting separated from his friends on a drunken bender, he is abducted by a shadowy figure. He wakes to find himself imprisoned in the basement of a remote Yorkshire house, inhabited by a very strange family. But what unfolds is not what he could possibly expect.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Life and a Day.

Traffic
#2

Traffic

An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Life and a Day.

Babel
#3

Babel

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Life and a Day.

24 Frames
#4

24 Frames

A collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minutes films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs. An experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Life and a Day.

Requiem for a Dream
#5

Requiem for a Dream

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

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Life and a Day.

Not Without My Daughter
#6

Not Without My Daughter

An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Life and a Day.

Echo Valley
#7

Echo Valley

Kate lives a secluded life—until her troubled daughter shows up, frightened and covered in someone else's blood. As Kate unravels the shocking truth, she learns just how far a mother will go to try to save her child.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Life and a Day.

My Own Private Idaho
#8

My Own Private Idaho

In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Life and a Day.

Where Is The Friend's House?
#9

Where Is The Friend's House?

An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Life and a Day.

Taste of Cherry
#10

Taste of Cherry

A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Life and a Day.

A Separation
#11

A Separation

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Life and a Day.

Braven
#12

Braven

A logger defends his family from a group of dangerous drug runners.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Life and a Day.

The Infiltrator
#13

The Infiltrator

A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Life and a Day.

Thoroughbreds
#14

Thoroughbreds

Lily and Amanda, two high school students living in suburban Connecticut, rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of drifting apart. Together, they devise a plan to kill Lily's abusive stepfather by hiring a lowlife drug dealer.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Life and a Day.

Violent Ends
#15

Violent Ends

Lucas Frost, an honest man brought up in a crime family whose only legacy is violence, tries to make his own life with his fiancée, Emma. He is suddenly pulled back into the family business he so despises when his cousin, Eli, perpetrates an armed robbery on a local scrap yard and an innocent life is caught in the crossfire.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Life and a Day.