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10 Best Movies Like How to Forget You

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

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#1
The Good Neighbor

The Good Neighbor

2022★ 6.5

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

A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of g...

#2
Girl in the Box

Girl in the Box

2016★ 6.7

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

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as ...

#3
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#4
Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue

1997★ 6.1

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

Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who...

#5
Coldwater

Coldwater

2013★ 6.4

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

A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmat...

#6
Tokyo Ghoul

Tokyo Ghoul

2017★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How to Forget You for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A Tokyo college student is attacked by a ghoul, a super-powered human who feeds on human flesh. He survives, but has become part ghoul and becomes a fugitive on the run....

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