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10 Best Movies Like Absence

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

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#1
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2015★ 7.4

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

With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family....

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The Deadly Affair

The Deadly Affair

1967★ 6.3

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

Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi G...

#3
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

2020★ 6.1

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

After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective friend, begins to unravel a deca...

#4
Overdrive

Overdrive

2017★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Absence for fans of Thriller & Mystery. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line....

#5
The Eternal Daughter

The Eternal Daughter

2022★ 5.9

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

An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past....

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The Good Witch's Destiny

The Good Witch's Destiny

2013★ 7.5

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

As Cassie's birthday approaches, Lori discovers disturbing parallels between Cassie and her great aunt, who disappeared years before on her birthday. When signs of a curse appear, ...

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