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10 Best Movies Like The Place You Know

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

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#1
Van Gogh: Painted with Words

Van Gogh: Painted with Words

2010★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Place You Know for fans of Drama & Documentary. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A drama-documentary presented by Alan Yentob, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role. Every word spoken by the actors in this film is sourced from the letters that Van Gogh sen...

#2
All That Breathes

All That Breathes

2022★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Place You Know for fans of Drama & Documentary. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Against the darkening backdrop of New Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protecting one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird k...

#3
Luce

Luce

2019★ 6.4

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

A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on famil...

#4
Flicka

Flicka

2006★ 6.9

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

Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. ...

#5
Hellion

Hellion

2014★ 5.9

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

When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father m...

#6
Hereafter

Hereafter

2010★ 6.1

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

Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways....

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