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10 Best Movies Like The Years Pass

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

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#1
Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything

Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything

2023★ 5.8

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

Set in a warm summer in 1990 in former East Germany, it follows a young woman who begins a relationship with a charismatic farmer who is twice her age....

#2
Finsterworld

Finsterworld

2013★ 6.4

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

The film tells different stories in a kind of parallel Germany about love, affection and hatred....

#3
The German Lesson

The German Lesson

2019★ 6.5

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

In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality....

#4
The Nest

The Nest

2020★ 6.1

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

Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of the...

#5
Blame Game

Blame Game

2019★ 5.9

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

Martin Behrens is a Middle East expert for the German intelligence agency BND. He obtains information leading to a U.S. drone strike on a wanted terrorist in Zahiristan. A few days...

#6
Girl in the Box

Girl in the Box

2016★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Years Pass 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 ...

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