Movies Like The Abeyance
If you liked The Abeyance (2026), a drama and romance movie directed by Aadhithya Sankara Mahadevan, 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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If Only (2004)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceAfter his impetuous musician girlfriend, Samantha, dies in an accident shortly after they had a fight (and nearly broke up), Ian Wyndham, a grief-stricken British businessman living in London gets a chance to relive…
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Past Lives (2023)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and romanceAfter decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
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Along for the Ride (2022)
★ 6.6/10Also romance and dramaThe summer before college, Auden meets the mysterious Eli, a fellow insomniac. While the seaside town of Colby sleeps, the two embark on nightly quests to help Auden experience the fun, carefree teen life she never…
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Collateral Beauty (2016)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceRetreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of…
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Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaA recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
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Restless (2011)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceTwo outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.
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I Still Believe (2020)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and romanceThe true-life story of Christian music star Jeremy Camp and his journey of love and loss that looks to prove there is always hope.
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If Anything Happens I Love You (2020)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaGrieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child after a tragic school shooting.
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Someone Like You (2024)
★ 7.3/10Also romance and dramaShocking news hits after young architect Dawson loses his best friend London. In his heartbreak, Dawson is compelled to launch an impossible search for London’s secret sister, twins separated as embryos. But along the…
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A Ghost Story (2017)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and romanceRecently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and…
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The Best of Me (2014)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and romanceA pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
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Finding You (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also romance and dramaFinley, a talented aspiring violinist, meets Beckett, a famous young movie star, on the way to her college semester abroad program in a small coastal village in Ireland. An unexpected romance emerges as the heartthrob…
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Upstream Color (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaA man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
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Rabbit Hole (2010)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaLife for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
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Sir (2018)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceA prosperous young Indian man falls in love with his servant, a widow with the dream of becoming a fashion designer.
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her (2014)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romanceTold from the woman's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
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The Art of Getting By (2011)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romanceGeorge, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally, a popular but complicated girl who recognizes in him a kindred…
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The Longest Ride (2015)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and romanceThe lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.
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Life in a Year (2020)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and romanceA 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
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The Other Woman (2010)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaEmilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless…