Movies Like What's Left Behind
If you liked What's Left Behind (2023), a drama and mystery movie directed by Javad Ebrahiminejad, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and mysteryA three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated.
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Brand Upon the Brain! (2007)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and mysteryAfter returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
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Inseparable (2012)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and mysteryA troubled engineer faces pressure at work and problems at home with his moody wife. American expat Chuck, rescues him from the brink of despair and becomes an unlikely mentor.
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The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaSet in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with…
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Remember (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and mysteryWith 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.
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Puncture (2011)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and mysteryBased on a true story. Mike Weiss (Chris Evans) is a brilliant but self-destructive Houston attorney whose drug addiction threatens to destroy his career. When he and his law partner Paul Danziger (Mark Kassen) take on…
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Before I Fall (2017)
★ 7/10Also dramaSamantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her…
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The Caveman's Valentine (2001)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and mysteryRomulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities, including his police officer daughter, claim…
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Man with No Past (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaWaking up in an unfamiliar city, a man with no memory must confront the mysteries of his own identity. However, his desperate search to uncover the past pits him against a powerful enemy, leading to a showdown that…
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Triage (2009)
★ 6/10Also drama and mysteryThe wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.
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Sleep, My Love (1948)
★ 6.3/10Also mystery and dramaA woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
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Strange Weather (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaYears after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
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The Good Doctor (2011)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and mysteryDr. Martin Blake, who has spent his life looking for respect, meets an 18-year-old patient named Diane, suffering from a kidney infection, and gets a much-needed boost of self-esteem. However, when her health starts…
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Broke (2025)
★ 7/10Also dramaA bronc rider in denial about his fading rodeo career battles against brain injury and a sudden blizzard while reflecting on how it became so difficult to achieve his dreams.
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The Invisible (2007)
★ 6.4/10Also mysteryAfter an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker.
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Julia (1977)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaAt the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
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The Girl in the Book (2015)
★ 5.8/10Also dramaThe story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
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The Sense of an Ending (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also mystery and dramaA man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.
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A Dry White Season (1989)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaDuring the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
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The Blackout (1997)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and mysteryA debauched Hollywood movie actor tries to piece together one wild night in Miami years earlier which remains a drug-induced blur, and soon finds out that some questions about his past are best left unanswered.