Movies Like When They're Gone

If you liked When They're Gone (2026), a movie directed by Ragan Henderson and Lauryn Darden, 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.

1
This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
★ 6.7/10
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a…
2
Eternity (2025)
★ 7.1/10
In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with and her first love, who died young and has waited decades…
3
Rebecca (1940)
★ 7.9/10
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips…
4
The Thing with Feathers (2025)
★ 6.5/10
Following the death of his wife, a young father's hold on reality crumbles, and a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.
5
Providence (1977)
★ 6.6/10
On the eve of his 78th birthday, ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes for a novel in which characters based on his own family are shaped…
6
Brief Encounter (1945)
★ 7.7/10
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during…
7
Death at a Funeral (2007)
★ 6.9/10
A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an unexpected death.
8
The Face of Love (2013)
★ 6.1/10
A widow falls for a guy who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband.
9
Another Year (2010)
★ 7/10
During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
10
Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)
★ 6.2/10
An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, and the movie, into…
11
Catch and Release (2006)
★ 5.9/10
For a grieving fiancée, learning to love again requires the help of her late love's three best friends.
12
Undertaking Betty (2002)
★ 6.1/10
A politician's wife and the mortician who has secretly loved her for years plan to fake her death so they can run away together.
13
Personal Effects (2009)
★ 6/10
Walter is a rising star in the NCAA wrestling world until his life is ripped apart by the brutal murder of his sister. Returning home to console his mother Gloria he seeks vengeance on the man who is accused of the…
14
I'll See You in My Dreams (2015)
★ 6.3/10
A sudden loss disrupts Carol’s orderly life, propelling her into the dating world for the first time in 20 years. Finally living in the present tense, she finds herself swept up in not one, but two unexpected…
15
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
★ 7.6/10
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts…
16
Iris (2001)
★ 6.4/10
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
17
Uncle Frank (2020)
★ 7.3/10
In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.
18
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
★ 7.7/10
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
19
Love of Your Life (2026)
★ 6.8/10
After a chance encounter sparks a sweeping romance, Maya's future is suddenly upended, sending her on an unexpected journey to love and live again.
20
Planet Terror (2007)
★ 6.7/10
Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry Darling, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors…