If You Liked After Life, Watch These Next
Finished After Life (1999) and want more of the same? These 18 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like After Life, most of them are fantasy, drama.
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18 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
2.The Straight Story(1999)
7.7DramaAdventureAlso drama
Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his estranged brother Lyle has suffered a severe stroke. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. He then has the idea of…
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3.The Last Mimzy(2007)
6.3DramaScience FictionAdventureAlso drama
Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys, and soon their parents and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world – and find a task ahead of them that is far more important than any of them could imagine.
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4.How to Train Your Dragon 2(2014)
7.7FantasyActionAdventureAlso fantasy
Five years after uniting the dragons and Vikings of Berk, Hiccup and Toothless soar beyond their homeland, charting the vast unknown. During one of their adventures, the pair discover a secret cave that houses hundreds of wild dragons—and a mysterious dragon rider with a startling connection to Hiccup. And as the…
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5.The Tree of Life(2011)
6.7DramaFantasyAlso drama and fantasy
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking…
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6.The Brave Little Toaster(1987)
6.9AnimationAdventureFantasyAlso fantasy
A group of dated appliances, finding themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold, decide to seek out their eight year old 'master'.
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7.The Boy and the Beast(2015)
7.9ActionAdventureAnimationAlso drama and fantasy
Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That encounter leads them to many adventures.
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8.Black or White(2015)
6.8DramaAlso drama
A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.
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9.A Monster Calls(2016)
7.3FantasyAdventureFamilyAlso fantasy
12-year-old Conor encounters an ancient tree monster who proceeds to help him cope with his mother's terminal illness and being bullied in school.
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10.The Land Before Time(1988)
7.2FamilyAnimationAdventureAlso drama
An orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley. A land of lush vegetation where the dinosaurs can thrive and live in peace. Along the way he meets four other young dinosaurs, each one a different species, and they encounter several obstacles as they learn to work together…
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11.The Book of Life(2014)
7.5AnimationFamilyFantasyAlso fantasy
The journey of Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart. Before choosing which path to follow, he embarks on an incredible adventure that spans fantastical worlds where he must face his greatest fears.
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12.Still Walking(2008)
7.8DramaFamilyAlso drama
A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.
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13.An Unfinished Life(2005)
6.8DramaAlso drama
Stoic and heartbroken, Einar Gilkyson quietly lives in the rugged Wyoming ranchlands alongside his only trusted friend, Mitch Bradley. One day, the woman he blames for the death of his only son arrives at his door broke, desperate, and with a granddaughter he's never known. But even as buried anger and accusations…
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14.The Life of Chuck(2025)
7.3FantasyDramaAlso fantasy and drama
In this extraordinary story of an ordinary man, Charles 'Chuck' Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.
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15.Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole(2010)
6.8AnimationAdventureFamilyAlso fantasy
When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with new-found friends and seek the legendary Guardians to stop the menace.
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16.Dad(1989)
6.4DramaAlso drama
A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. Estranged from his own son, the executive comes to realize what has been missing in his own life.
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18.Mirai(2018)
7.2AnimationFamilyFantasyAlso fantasy and drama
Four-year-old Kun struggles with jealousy after his newborn sister, Mirai, begins receiving most of his family’s attention. Retreating to the garden, he encounters Mirai as a teenager from the future and embarks on extraordinary journeys across his family’s past, gradually discovering new perspectives on love,…
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