Movies Like Life and a Day

If you liked Life and a Day (2016), a drama movie directed by Saeed Roustaee, 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
Braven (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
A logger defends his family from a group of dangerous drug runners.
2
Traffic (2000)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
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…
3
Echo Valley (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
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.
4
Not Without My Daughter (1991)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.
5
Bullet (1996)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.
6
The Operative (2019)
★ 5.8/10Also drama
A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
7
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
★ 7/10Also drama
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…
8
Thoroughbreds (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also drama
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…
9
'R Xmas (2001)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
A New York drug dealer is kidnapped, and his wife must try to come up with the money and drugs to free him from his abductors before Christmas.
10
The Infiltrator (2016)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
11
Above the Rim (1994)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.
12
Babel (2006)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.
13
The Poker House (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
14
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.
15
Small Engine Repair (2021)
★ 6/10Also drama
The seemingly casual reunion of three old friends at an out-of-the-way repair shop masks a hidden agenda fuelled by the arrival of a privileged young yuppie.
16
The Baker (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
A quiet, stoic man, lives a monk-like existence in self-imposed exile. When his estranged son is killed in a drug deal gone bad, he is left to look after a granddaughter he never knew existed, and he is forced back…
17
The Salesman (2016)
★ 7.3/10Also drama
Forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighboring building, Emad and Rana move into a new flat in the center of Tehran. An incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young…
18
Ten (2002)
★ 7.3/10Also drama
A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
19
Rachel Getting Married (2008)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
20
Veronica Guerin (2003)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the…