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10 Best Movies Like One Stays, the Other Leaves

If you loved One Stays, the Other Leaves, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Hedgehog

The Hedgehog

2009★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to One Stays, the Other Leaves for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she questions and doc...

#2
Patients

Patients

2017★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to One Stays, the Other Leaves for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After a serious sport accident in a swimming pool, Ben, now an incomplete quadriplegic, arrives in a rehabilitation center. He meets with other handicapped persons (tetraplegics, p...

#3
Shining Through

Shining Through

1992★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to One Stays, the Other Leaves for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love, the...

#4
The Age of Man

The Age of Man

2007★ 4.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to One Stays, the Other Leaves for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Samuel is 30. Formerly a confirmed bachelor, he has been living with Tina – a photographer – for the past year but he gets scared when it’s time to commit. So he gives himself 24 h...

#5
Our Wonderful Lives

Our Wonderful Lives

2019★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to One Stays, the Other Leaves for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Margot, Jeremy, Salome, Caesar, Sonia - They are between 18 and 50 years old. Everything separates them except the urgency to rebuild and restore the relationship to the other that...

#6
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to One Stays, the Other Leaves for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....