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Movies Like Life Stuff

If you liked Life Stuff (2025), a drama movie directed by Megan White, 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. 1I Believe in Unicorns

    I Believe in Unicorns (2015)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

  2. 2Radium Girls

    Radium Girls (2020)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.

  3. 3Eleanor the Great

    Eleanor the Great (2025)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.

  4. 4The Other Woman

    The Other Woman (2010)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Emilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless…

  5. 5Fort Bliss

    Fort Bliss (2014)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    After returning home from an extended tour in Afghanistan, a decorated U.S. Army medic and single mother struggles to rebuild her relationship with her young son.

  6. 6Blue Heron

    Blue Heron (2026)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A family of six's fresh start on 1990s Vancouver Island unravels as their youngest child, Sasha, witnesses the increasingly dangerous behavior of her older brother, Jeremy.

  7. 7Won't Back Down

    Won't Back Down (2012)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    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 school and ensure a bright future for…

  8. 8Here

    Here (2024)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.

  9. 9Upstream Color

    Upstream Color (2013)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.

  10. 10Small Things Like These

    Small Things Like These (2024)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit…

  11. 11Reality

    Reality (2023)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Augusta, Georgia, United States, June 3, 2017. After running some errands, Reality Winner returns home, where she is approached by two men.

  12. 12Love & Mercy

    Love & Mercy (2015)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, under the sway of a controlling therapist, he finds a savior in Melinda…

  13. 13Return

    Return (2011)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.

  14. 14Good Vibrations

    Good Vibrations (2012)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    The story of music legend Terri Hooley, a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley founded the Good Vibrations store from which a record label sprung, representing bands such as The Undertones, Rudi and The…

  15. 15Skater Girl

    Skater Girl (2021)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Prerna, a teenager growing up in rural India, comes of age when she’s introduced to the sport of skateboarding. As a result, she has to fight the odds to follow her dreams and compete in the national championship.

  16. 16Outrage

    Outrage (1950)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is raped while on her way home from work.

  17. 17The Last Rifleman

    The Last Rifleman (2023)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his…

  18. 18Judy

    Judy (2019)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Thirty years after starring in 'The Wizard of Oz', beloved actress and singer Judy Garland arrives in London to perform sold-out shows at the Talk of the Town nightclub. While there, she reminisces with friends and…

  19. 19Edie

    Edie (2018)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    To try and overcome a lifetime of bitterness and resentment, 83-year-old Edie decides that it is never too late. After packing an old camping bag, she leaves her life behind and embarks on an adventure she never got to…

  20. 20Oranges and Sunshine

    Oranges and Sunshine (2010)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom to Australia and…

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