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10 Best Movies Like The Past

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

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#1
Why Your Crush Doesn't Have a Crush on You?

Why Your Crush Doesn't Have a Crush on You?

2013★ 5.8

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

An ugly ducking attempts to become desirable....

#2
I Want to Deliver Your Voice

I Want to Deliver Your Voice

2017★ 6.1

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

The story focuses on high school girl Nagisa Yukiai who lives in a seaside town. She has believed her grandmother's story that spirits dwell in words and they are called "kotodama"...

#3
A French Woman

A French Woman

1995★ 5.3

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

Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys throug...

#4
House of Fools

House of Fools

2002★ 5.8

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

The war film that's not a war film. A film about the mental institution which backdrop is the Chechen war. A story about the patients living in an institution during the war on the...

#5
Bethlehem

Bethlehem

2013★ 6.1

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

Bethlehem tells the story of the unlikely bond between Razi, an Israeli secret service officer, and his Palestinian informant Sanfur, the younger brother of a senior Palestinian mi...

#6
The Berken Case

The Berken Case

2017★ 6.4

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

Naval Officer Berken faces a wall of resistance as she investigates the murder of a soldier....