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10 Best Movies Like When I Saw You

If you loved When I Saw You, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
Where Is The Friend's House?

Where Is The Friend's House?

1987★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Saw You for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school....

#2
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

2018★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Saw You for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Toby, a cynical film director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic an...

#3
Great Freedom

Great Freedom

2021★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Saw You for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Neve...

#4
A Regular Woman

A Regular Woman

2019★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Saw You for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Hatun Aynur Sürücü, a German woman of Kurdish origin, was shot dead by her brothers at a bus stop in 2005. The story of a woman who fought for her freedom and independence despite ...

#5
Under the Bombs

Under the Bombs

2007★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Saw You for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the wake of Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the country convincing a taxi driver to take a risky journey around the scarred region in...

#6
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Saw You for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....