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10 Best Movies Like Things Behind the Sun

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

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#1
An American Rhapsody

An American Rhapsody

2001โ€ขโ˜… 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Things Behind the Sun for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later, the family arranges to bring the absent daughter ...

#2
Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

1965โ€ขโ˜… 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Things Behind the Sun for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the O...

#3
The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club

1993โ€ขโ˜… 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Things Behind the Sun for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts....

#4
Memoirs of a Geisha

Memoirs of a Geisha

2005โ€ขโ˜… 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Things Behind the Sun for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house....

#5
Inheritance

Inheritance

2020โ€ขโ˜… 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Things Behind the Sun for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family suddenly passes away, leaving his wife and daughter with a shocking secret inheritance that threatens to unravel and destroy their li...

#6
Nocturnal Animals

Nocturnal Animals

2016โ€ขโ˜… 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Things Behind the Sun for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband โ€“ a man she left 20 years earlier โ€“ asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional...

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