Movies like Chained for Life (2019)
The best movies like Chained for Life (2019) are Curfew (2012), Feeling Through (2019) and The Show (2017). If Chained for Life hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedWhat Maisie Knew (2013)7.1/10 from 466 votes
- NewestMy First Film (2024)Released 2024
Curfew (2012)
At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister asking him to look after his nine-year old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFeeling Through (2019)
A late-night encounter on a New York City street leads to a profound connection between a teen-in-need and a DeafBlind man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Show (2017)
An unsettling look at reality television, where a disturbing game show has its contestants ending their lives for the public's enjoyment.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisStutterer (2015)
A lonely typographer with a cruel speech impediment but an eloquent inner voice must face his greatest fear.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhere We Disappear (2019)
A story of survival about a woman's first night in a Soviet prison camp. After committing a crime to protect her son, Anastasia is sentenced to 12 years in a Soviet prison camp. Her arrival upsets the balance between the inmates. In a night of backstabbing and shifting alliances, she must find a way to escape and discover the hidden truth of her survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Archipelago (2011)
Deep fractures within a family dynamic begin to surface during a getaway to the Isles of Scilly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisDiane (2019)
Diane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past choices and long-dormant memories.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Madeline's Madeline (2018)
Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisFull Time (2022)
Julie finally gets an interview for a job where she can raise her children better only to run into a national transit strike.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFauve (2018)
Set in a surface mine, two boys sink into a seemingly innocent power game with Mother Nature as the sole observer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJuanita (2019)
Fed up with her deadbeat grown kids and marginal urban existence, Juanita takes a Greyhound bus to Paper Moon, Montana - where she reinvents herself and finds her mojo.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisClouds of Sils Maria (2014)
A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnuja (2024)
When a brilliant nine-year-old working in a sweatshop gets a chance to attend school, she must make a difficult choice for her and her sister's future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Arrival (2016)
Anna contemplates a big decision while waiting for someone in a cafe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Unspeakable (2017)
A single mum receives an anonymous text message, claiming her new boyfriend is having an inappropriate relationship with her 11 year old daughter. Over one weekend the accusation fractures the relationship between the couple.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Katie Says Goodbye (2018)
A kindhearted seventeen-year-old in the American Southwest turns to prostitution to fulfill her dream of a new life in San Francisco.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNight Comes On (2018)
Angel is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, she embarks on a journey with her 10 year-old sister that could destroy their future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Hungry Hearts (2015)
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy First Film (2024)
Vita revisits her first attempt at filmmaking 15 years prior. Shooting a semi-autobiographical film starring her friend Dina, Vita’s eager but inexperienced approach causes the production to spiral into chaos, leading to significant disruptions and a near-fatal accident.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Neighbors' Window (2019)
The story of a middle-aged woman with small children whose life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJosie & Jack (2019)
Raised in a decaying old Pennsylvania mansion and home schooled by their tyrannical professor father, Josie and Jack Raeburn have never had anyone but each other to depend on. Set in the 1990s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The After (2024)
After losing a family member to a violent crime, a shattered rideshare driver picks up a passenger that forces him to confront his grief.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Silent Child (2017)
A deaf 4-year-old girl named Libby lives in a world of silence until a caring social worker teaches her to use sign language to communicate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisChop Shop (2008)
Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his 16-year-old sister, Isamar.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLap Dance (2014)
An aspiring actress makes a pact with her fiancé to start stripping to foot her dad’s cancer bills but learns that fast money comes with a price.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Girl in the Book (2015)
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisWhat Maisie Knew (2013)
In New York City, six-year-old Maisie is caught in the middle of a bitter custody battle between her self-absorbed parents—an aging rock singer mother and a distracted art dealer father. As both quickly marry new partners to strengthen their legal standing, Maisie is shuttled back and forth in an endless game of emotional point-scoring. Yet amid the chaos and upheaval, Maisie begins to find true comfort and affection in her new step-parents.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCall Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKiller's Kiss (1955)
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTalhotBlond (2012)
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Chained for Life?
The closest matches to Chained for Life are Curfew (2012), Feeling Through (2019) and The Show (2017). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Chained for Life?
People who watched Chained for Life most often go on to Curfew (2012), Feeling Through (2019) and The Show (2017).
What is the highest-rated movie like Chained for Life?
What Maisie Knew (2013), rated 7.1/10 by 466 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Chained for Life?
My First Film (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Chained for Life?
Yes: Curfew (2012), Feeling Through (2019) and The Show (2017).
How are movies similar to Chained for Life chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Chained for Life, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.