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10 Best Movies Like The Absent

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

#1
An Ideal Father

An Ideal Father

2024★ 6.3

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

Michel, the jovial owner of the only café in a small Normandy town, sees his life turned upside down when his teenage daughter is murdered. The community has his back but soon rumo...

#2
My Penguin Friend

My Penguin Friend

2024★ 7.4

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

A lost penguin rescued from an oil spill transforms the life of a heartbroken fisherman. They become unlikely friends, so bonded that even the vast ocean cannot divide them....

#3
Amaran

Amaran

2024★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Absent for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A heroic true story of Major Mukund Varadarajan, an Indian Army officer who displayed extraordinary bravery during a counterterrorism mission in Kashmir’s Shopian district. The fil...

#4
Bad

Bad

1977★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Absent for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house, but makes extra money by providing ruthless women the oppurtunity to perform hit jobs. L.T. is a parasite, and contacts Hazel looking fo...

#5
Alien: Romulus

Alien: Romulus

2024★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Absent for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe....

#6
National Family

National Family

2023★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Absent for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Don Poli, the patriarch of a family embedded in politics, faces the change of party in his state - after a hundred years in power - losing all his privileges. Humiliated and angry,...