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10 Best Movies Like When He Didn't Come Home

If you loved When He Didn't Come Home, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
Au Revoir les Enfants

Au Revoir les Enfants

1987★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When He Didn't Come Home for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, t...

#2
Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №1. Testament Emperor

Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №1. Testament Emperor

2000★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When He Didn't Come Home for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Russia, January 25, 1725. "Give it all...". The emperor's weakening hand was able to write in his will only these two short incomprehensible words that kept Russia in a bloody stru...

#3
Saturday Night's Main Event XXXVII

Saturday Night's Main Event XXXVII

2024★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When He Didn't Come Home for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes will go head-to-head with Kevin Owens as Saturday Night's Main Event returns to NBC. Plus World Tag Team Champion Finn Bálor will face "The Ring...

#4
Crows Zero II

Crows Zero II

2009★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When He Didn't Come Home for fans of Action. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Genji and his victorious G.P.S. alliance find themselves facing down a new challenge by the students of Hosen Academy, feared by everyone as 'The Army of Killers.' The two schools,...

#5
Wind

Wind

2019★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When He Didn't Come Home for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Set in a world of magical realism, "Wind" sees a grandmother and her grandson trapped down an endless chasm, scavenging debris that surrounds them to realize their dream of escapin...

#6
Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №5. Second Bride Emperor

Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №5. Second Bride Emperor

2003★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When He Didn't Come Home for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

As a result of a successful conspiracy against Menshikov, Peter II is prematurely recognized as an adult and is in a hurry to be crowned in Moscow. The Dolgoruky brothers gather fo...