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10 Best Movies Like For Those Left Behind

If you loved For Those Left Behind, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Eleanor the Great

Eleanor the Great

2025★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to For Those Left Behind for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades....

#2
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to For Those Left Behind for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#3
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to For Those Left Behind 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 ...

#4
The Wedding March

The Wedding March

2016★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to For Those Left Behind for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When former college sweethearts Olivia Pershing and Mick Turner are unexpectedly reunited the weekend of Olivia's wedding, the former couple initially locks horns but as the events...

#5
Tigertail

Tigertail

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to For Those Left Behind for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter....

#6
The Girl in the Book

The Girl in the Book

2015★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to For Those Left Behind for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present....

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