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10 Best Movies Like The Days of Abandonment

If you loved The Days of Abandonment, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Thirteen Days

Thirteen Days

2000★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Days of Abandonment for fans of History. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases established on the Soviet-allied island ...

#2
The Manual of Love

The Manual of Love

2005★ 5.8

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

Four intertwined stories on the joys and sorrows of love....

#3
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

2009★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Days of Abandonment for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

John Cazale was in only five films – The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II, Dog Day Afternoon and The Deer Hunter – each was nominated for Best Picture. Yet today...

#4
The Sweet and the Bitter

The Sweet and the Bitter

2007★ 5.8

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

Saro, a young Sicilian thug, that from jobs assigned by his godfather, won the favor of leaders of Cosa Nostra, becoming a "man of honor"....

#5
Pagans

Pagans

2017★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Days of Abandonment for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

At the foot of Vesuvius, the celebration of Our-Lady-of-the-Hens is still tinged with paganism. While Fonzino prepares a ritual altar, Biagio leads the femminielli, the transgender...

#6
The Post

The Post

2017★ 7.0

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

A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and ...