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10 Best Movies Like Abandoned

If you loved Abandoned, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Evelyn

Evelyn

2002★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Abandoned for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the child...

#2
Nowhere Special

Nowhere Special

2020★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Abandoned for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, has dedicated his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son, Michael, after the child's mother left them soon after giving birth. When John is give...

#3
Second Best

Second Best

1994★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Abandoned for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son....

#4
Rocks

Rocks

2019★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Abandoned for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

15-year-old Rocks fears that she and her little brother Emmanuel will be taken into care and forced apart if anyone finds out that their mother has left them. Against all odds, and...

#5
A Home of Our Own

A Home of Our Own

1993★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Abandoned for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1960s Los Angeles an energetic widow and her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. They leave L.A. and head for the countryside, all...

#6
A Shine of Rainbows

A Shine of Rainbows

2009★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Abandoned for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An orphaned boy named Tomás is adopted by Maire O’Donnell to live on a whimsical Irish isle filled with new friends, secret caves and a lost baby pup seal stranded on the coast. Bu...

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