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10 Best Movies Like The Year Between

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

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#1
Helen

Helen

2009★ 6.5

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

On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depressio...

#2
Fathers and Daughters

Fathers and Daughters

2015★ 7.1

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

A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own....

#3
Young Adult

Young Adult

2011★ 5.8

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

A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family....

#4
Patch Adams

Patch Adams

1998★ 7.3

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

The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant ...

#5
A Dog Year

A Dog Year

2009★ 6.2

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

Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kennel sends hi...

#6
Please Give

Please Give

2010★ 6.2

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

In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns....

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