Movies Similar to The Things We Leave Behind

The Vourdalak(2023)

The Marquis d’Urfé finds refuge in the home of a strange family after becoming lost in a hostile forest while working as an emissary for the King of France.

God's Lonely Man(2024)

A guy commits suicide due to severe depression. As his final goodbye, he writes three letters to God to explain his struggles with the world.

Malena(2000)

During WWII, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.

Wrong Way(2024)

In this short film the director reflects on the feeling of being on the wrong path in your life, that you have no control over your own life. But coming to the conclusion, it's life, we all go through it, and without these moments of fall we don't learn to live.

Seven Pounds(2008)

An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

War for the Planet of the Apes(2017)

Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

Prom Night(2008)

Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.

Querido Theo(2024)

Between Us

Two friends meet and the news is given that the grandmother of one of them has died. What was supposed to be a moment of consolation ends up becoming a change of perspective on death.

Letter to a broken heart(2021)

After a terrible breakup, Dante will have to face his grief through a mysterious letter, which tells the story of a broken heart among its letters.

Charli(e)(2022)

Rolling Vengeance(1987)

A truck driver builds a special, eight-ton monster truck to help get revenge against the rednecks who killed his family.

Midsommar(2019)

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

Hotel Effimero(2025)

Alicia and Leo travel to Italy, to their late mother's childhood village, guided only by a small box filled with her memories.

The Letters You Will Never Read(2023)

Oliver doesn't know how to deal with the fact that he is not with the girl he loves. So in desperation for coping with his feelings he starts to write letters in which he describes all the feelings and thoughts that he's trying to bury deep down.

Apollo Boy(2022)

A young woman thinks back on a series of life advice her deceased brother once shared with her as she goes through the steps of her daily routine. Inspired by a supernatural story the two bonded over in life, she attempts to establish a line of communication with "Apollo Boy", a little boy who watches over lonely children from his home on the moon.

A Final Phonecall(2024)

A boy lives the final moments of his life and gives one last phone call to his mum.

Among The Trees(2023)

Two brothers, who have not seen each other for a long time, meet again at their mother's grave. The opportunity for their re-connection is threatened by the emerging ghosts of the past.

The Third Part of the Night(1972)

Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, the story follows Michał, who witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child and then is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes.

Reminiscence(1953)

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, orphaned during the war, who stumbles into a passionate yet tragic relationship with his late father’s mistress and her daughter.