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Movies that feel like After Life (1999)

If you loved After Life, the closest films we have are Finding Neverland (2004), There Will Be Blood (2007) and The Trip to Bountiful (1985). All three share After Life's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on fuboTV, Paramount Plus Premium and Paramount Plus Essential and others, checked against today's data.

On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.

πŸ… 88% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Hirokazu Kore-edadreamlikecontemplativecerebral

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If After Life hit the spot, these will too

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Finding Neverland
2004 Β· dir. Marc Forster
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.6drama Β· fantasy

Dreamlike and contemplative in the same breath

The difference: None of the ideas that defines After Life

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boysβ€”who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration that lead him to create his masterpiece. Peter Pan.

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There Will Be Blood
2007 Β· dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
πŸ… 91%β˜… 8.2drama

Dreamlike drama, and it commits to that

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

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The Trip to Bountiful
1985 Β· dir. Peter Masterson
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.4drama

Memory sits at the heart of each

Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish – just once before she dies – is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home."

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Melancholia
2011 Β· dir. Lars von Trier
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.1drama Β· science fiction

Cerebral fantasy in both cases

The difference: Leans science fiction where After Life does not

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.

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The Greatest Showman
2017 Β· dir. Michael Gracey
πŸ… 56%β˜… 7.5drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
2006 Β· dir. Mamoru Hosoda
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.6fantasy Β· animation Β· drama

Both built around teenage girl

The difference: Plays it as animation more than After Life does

When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to 'leap' backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends.

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Paris, Texas
1984 Β· dir. Wim Wenders
πŸ… 95%β˜… 8.1drama

Fantasy with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

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The Green Mile
1999 Β· dir. Frank Darabont
πŸ… 78%β˜… 8.6fantasy Β· drama Β· crime

Both trade on dream logic more than on being fantasy

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.

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Minari
2021 Β· dir. Lee Isaac Chung
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.4drama

Both trade on stillness more than on being drama

The difference: A 2020s film, from a different era of filmmaking

A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.

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The Man from Earth
2007 Β· dir. Richard Schenkman
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.8science fiction Β· drama

Both run cerebral where it counts

A departing professor gathers his closest colleagues for an intimate farewell, but the night takes an unexpected turn when he shares a stunning secret about his past. As the conversation unfolds, skepticism and curiosity collide, challenging everything they thought they knew about history, science, and belief.

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The Lovely Bones
2009 Β· dir. Peter Jackson
πŸ… 31%β˜… 6.6fantasy Β· drama

Both are fantasy through and through

After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.

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Pan's Labyrinth
2006 Β· dir. Guillermo del Toro
πŸ… 95%β˜… 8.2fantasy Β· drama Β· war

Cut from the same drama cloth

In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.

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