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10 Best Movies Like In Your Absence

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

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#1
Wild Tigers I Have Known

Wild Tigers I Have Known

2006★ 5.8

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

A lyrical telling of the coming of age of a 14-year-old boy who learns to cope with his new found sexuality and his unrequited love for the cool kid in school....

#2
Palmer

Palmer

2021★ 8.1

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

After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubl...

#3
Tex

Tex

1982★ 6.1

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

After their mother dies and their father leaves them, teenage brothers Tex and Mason McCormick struggle to make it on their own....

#4
Boy Erased

Boy Erased

2018★ 7.0

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

Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be pe...

#5
Memories of a Teenager

Memories of a Teenager

2019★ 7.8

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

After the suicide of his best friend and the fire of a local dance called Cromañón, including recitals, illegal parties in an abandoned warehouse and high school, a year passes by ...

#6
Don't Be Afraid

Don't Be Afraid

2011★ 6.5

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

Silvia is a young girl marked by a dark childhood. When she is barely twenty-five, she decides to start over and to face the people, feelings and emotions that keep her bound to th...

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