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Movies Like Dead Like Me: Life After Death

If you liked Dead Like Me: Life After Death (2009), a drama and fantasy movie directed by Stephen Herek, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Before I Fall

    Before I Fall (2017)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and fantasy

    Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her…

  2. 2Afterlife of the Party

    Afterlife of the Party (2021)

    ★ 6.7/10Also fantasy and comedy

    A social butterfly who dies during her birthday week is given a second chance to right her wrongs on Earth.

  3. 3Teen Spirit

    Teen Spirit (2011)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and fantasy

    Amber, a mean popular girl who gets electrocuted and dies, is not allowed to enter into heaven unless she helps the least popular girl in school become Prom Queen within a week, but things do not go as planned.

  4. 4Hooking Up

    Hooking Up (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    Bailey and Darla embark upon a misguided and mutually deceitful form of therapy, one in which they must drive across the country, re-enacting Darla's colorful history as a sex addict. As their true motivations for the…

  5. 5Slumberland

    Slumberland (2022)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy and fantasy

    A young girl discovers a secret map to the dreamworld of Slumberland, and with the help of an eccentric outlaw, she traverses dreams and flees nightmares, with the hope that she will be able to see her late father again.

  6. 6Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

    Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    When a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation!

  7. 7Hereafter

    Hereafter (2010)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and fantasy

    Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.

  8. 8It Runs in the Family

    It Runs in the Family (2003)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile

  9. 9Ana

    Ana (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and comedy

    Ana meets Rafa in a chance encounter and they embark on a road trip to try and save him from bankruptcy, or worse.

  10. 1047 Ronin

    47 Ronin (2013)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and fantasy

    Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their homeland, the…

  11. 11The 6th Man

    The 6th Man (1997)

    ★ 6.1/10Also fantasy and drama

    A college athlete returns from the dead to help his brother's basketball team win the NCAA title.

  12. 12The Odd Life of Timothy Green

    The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)

    ★ 7/10Also fantasy and drama

    A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.

  13. 13My Own Love Song

    My Own Love Song (2010)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    A wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend embark on a roadtrip to Memphis.

  14. 14Roll Bounce

    Roll Bounce (2005)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy and drama

    In the summer of 1978, a teenager and his group of friends face new challenges when their neighborhood roller-skating rink closes, forcing them to visit a different rink.

  15. 15Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

    Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and fantasy

    Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles…

  16. 16SubUrbia

    SubUrbia (1997)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.

  17. 17Haunted Mansion

    Haunted Mansion (2023)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama

    A woman and her son enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters.

  18. 18Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster

    Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster (2010)

    ★ 6.2/10Also fantasy and comedy

    Scooby-Doo and the gang are on the case when a mysterious lake monster starts scaring the guests at a summer resort in Erie Point, where Fred, Daphne, Velma and Shaggy have taken on seasonal jobs to pay for a barn they…

  19. 19The Truman Show

    The Truman Show (1998)

    ★ 8.2/10Also comedy and drama

    In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show.

  20. 20The Shepherd

    The Shepherd (2023)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and fantasy

    On Christmas Eve, a fighter pilot on his way home becomes lost while flying over water and needs a miracle to land safely.

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