Movies like My Life Without Me (2003)
The best movies like My Life Without Me (2003) are My Sister's Keeper (2009), The Secret Life of Words (2005) and Life as a House (2001). If My Life Without Me hooked you with its drama and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMy Sister's Keeper (2009)7.4/10 from 2,317 votes
- NewestWater for Elephants (2011)Released 2011
My Sister's Keeper (2009)
Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. But their family is rocked by sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their baby girl's life. The parents' desperate decision raises both ethical and moral questions and rips away at the foundation of their relationship. Their actions ultimately set off a court case that threatens to tear the family apart, while revealing surprising truths that challenge everyone's perceptions of love and loyalty and give new meaning to the definition of healing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Secret Life of Words (2005)
A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLife as a House (2001)
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNot Here to Be Loved (2005)
Jean-Claude Delsart, a 50 years-old bailiff, with his worn-out smile and heart, abandoned a long time ago the idea that life could give him pleasures. Until the day, he dares to push the doors of a tango lesson...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
The Cake Eaters (2007)
The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Easy tries to reconnect with his old flame, Marg. Eldest son and struggling musician Guy moves back to town, feeling guilty that he missed the funeral. His brother, Beagle, who was his mother's caretaker, falls for Marg's granddaughter, Georgia, a chronically ill girl who fears her time is growing short.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisAway from Her (2007)
Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absent-mindedness is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. She must go to a specialized nursing home, where she slowly forgets Grant and turns her affection to Aubrey, another patient in the home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Savages (2007)
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEvening (2007)
As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago. In vivid flashbacks, the young Ann (Claire Daines) spends one night with a man named Harris (Patrick Wilson), who was the love of her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisMonster's Ball (2001)
A prison guard begins a tentative romance with the unsuspecting widow of a man whose execution he presided over.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisElegy (2008)
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOne True Thing (1998)
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIris (2001)
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Barbarian Invasions (2003)
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Yellow Handkerchief (2009)
A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAdoration (2009)
For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisTempted (2003)
The strain of juggling her responsibilities as wife, mother, and successful paralegal have worn Emma Burke out. Thus it is that Emma welcomes the opportunity to briefly take leave of her Boston home and head for sunny Hawaii. It is not, however, a pleasure trip: Having promised to honor the dying wishes of her Hawaiian-born surrogate mother. Leaving her husband, Mike, behind to care for their two children, Emma arrives in Hawaii for the first time since childhood, where she is reunited with her childhood friend Kala, the handsome son of her late surrogate parent.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
In the Land of Women (2007)
After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he gets mixed up in the lives of the mother and daughters who live across the street.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisCome Early Morning (2006)
A thirty-something southern woman searches for love, despite the burdens she carries with her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisWater for Elephants (2011)
In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThis Is My Father (1999)
When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, he looks to his mother for answers. When she refuses to provide any, Kieran travels to Ireland.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Feast of Love (2007)
A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUnhook the Stars (1996)
Widowed mother Mildred must suddenly redefine herself and find an outlet for her nurturing side when her adult daughter moves out of the family home. Though Mildred thinks she's found her purpose when her neighbor, overworked single mother Monica, asks her to look after her little boy, she has great difficulty learning to strike a healthy balance between giving selflessly to others and remembering to take care of herself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisTwo Lovers (2008)
A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Painted Veil (2006)
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThings You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)
In California, a group of women struggle with personal problems as their paths intertwine in unexpected ways. Dr. Elaine Keener, the sole caretaker for her aging mother, turns to tarot card reader Christine for spiritual aid. Christine grapples with her own angst due to her lover's debilitating illness. Meanwhile, a bank manager deals with an unwanted pregnancy, two sisters pursue romantic interests and a housewife gets back into the dating game.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisP.S. (2004)
Louise, an unfulfilled divorced woman with regrets, gets the chance to relive her past when she meets a young man who bears an uncanny resemblance, in name and appearance, to her high school sweetheart who died many years before.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like this15 Park Avenue (2006)
An exploration of the impact of schizophrenia on a young woman and her family in today's Calcutta.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Map of the Sounds of Tokyo (2009)
A Japanese assassin falls in love with the Spanish wine seller she was hired to kill.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisGenova (2009)
A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genoa changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother, while the older one discovers her sexuality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Last Time (2006)
Ted Ryker is the top salesman in the New York office of a business machine company; the corporate stock lives by quarterly sales numbers, the competition is keen, and the economy may be in a downturn. Ted's company is marking time until a new product is ready – probably in a few months. Into the mix comes a new hire, a callow Midwesterner named Jamie, who's come East with his fiancée Belisa.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like My Life Without Me?
The closest matches to My Life Without Me are My Sister's Keeper (2009), The Secret Life of Words (2005) and Life as a House (2001). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after My Life Without Me?
People who watched My Life Without Me most often go on to My Sister's Keeper (2009), The Secret Life of Words (2005) and Life as a House (2001).
What is the highest-rated movie like My Life Without Me?
My Sister's Keeper (2009), rated 7.4/10 by 2,317 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like My Life Without Me?
Water for Elephants (2011) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like My Life Without Me?
Yes: My Sister's Keeper (2009), The Secret Life of Words (2005) and Life as a House (2001).
How are movies similar to My Life Without Me chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside My Life Without Me, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.