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10 Best Movies Like Seventeen Years

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

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#1
Kitchen

Kitchen

1997★ 8.5

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

Aggie is suffering a great pain after the death of her Grandmother. She has no one else so she moves in with her Godmother and her son, Louie. Aggie does not speak a single word, t...

#2
Cries and Whispers

Cries and Whispers

1972★ 7.9

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

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs....

#3
Jim's Story

Jim's Story

2024★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Seventeen Years for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Aymeric runs into Florence, a former coworker, one evening in Saint-Claude in the Haut-Jura. She is six months pregnant and single. When she gives birth to Jim, Aymeric is there. T...

#4
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

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

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...

#5
The Man Who Would Be King

The Man Who Would Be King

1975★ 7.5

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

Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafiristan, where they are ultimately embraced by the people and revered as rulers. After...

#6
The Insider

The Insider

1999★ 7.5

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

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco....