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10 Best Movies Like When You Are Not Here

If you loved When You Are Not Here, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Let's Make Love

Let's Make Love

1960★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When You Are Not Here for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful...

#2
The Big Store

The Big Store

1941★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When You Are Not Here for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager....

#3
Silk Stockings

Silk Stockings

1957★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When You Are Not Here for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission...

#4
Wild Oats

Wild Oats

2016★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When You Are Not Here for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Everything changes for Eva when she receives an insurance settlement check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50,000. She and her best friend take the mo...

#5
Don't Think Twice

Don't Think Twice

2016★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When You Are Not Here for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An improv group deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time....

#6
The King of Havana

The King of Havana

2015★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When You Are Not Here for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Recently escaped from reformatory, Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, g...

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