Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like When We Leave

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

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#1
Where the Red Fern Grows

Where the Red Fern Grows

2003★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When We Leave for fans of Drama & Family. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression, Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for 2 years to achieve his dream of buying two coonhound pups. He develops a...

#2
What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew

2013★ 7.1

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

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle....

#3
TalhotBlond

TalhotBlond

2012★ 6.3

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

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately lead...

#4
Normal

Normal

2003★ 6.7

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

A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation....

#5
Remember

Remember

2015★ 7.4

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

With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family....

#6
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

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