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10 Best Movies Like Sadness at Leaving

If you loved Sadness at Leaving, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence

1993★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sadness at Leaving for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin....

#2
The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead

1949★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sadness at Leaving for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards....

#3
Gentleman's Agreement

Gentleman's Agreement

1947★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sadness at Leaving for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism....

#4
Three Days of the Condor

Three Days of the Condor

1975★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sadness at Leaving for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines...

#5
Little Murders

Little Murders

1971★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sadness at Leaving for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A young nihilistic New Yorker copes with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia, and ethnic-racial conflict during a typic...

#6
Trust

Trust

2021★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sadness at Leaving for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Set in the glamour of the New York and Paris art scenes, gallery owner Brooke Gatwick and her newscaster husband Owen Shore, face temptation, jealousy, twists and mystery when two ...

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