Movies Like The Sense of an Ending (2017)

The Sense of an Ending is a 2017 drama, mystery film from Ritesh Batra with a MovieMagicScore of 6.4/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Memento and A Letter to Three Wives.

Drama Mystery

Memento

2000

Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.

8.2

MagicScore

A Letter to Three Wives

1949

A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.

7.2

MagicScore

My Salinger Year

2020

A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.

6.3

MagicScore

Last Orders

2001

Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final request, 'Last Orders', that his ashes be scattered in the sea at Margate. The movie follows his mates, Ray, Lenny and Vic and his foster son Vince as they journey to the sea with the ashes. Along the way, the threads of their lives, their loves and their disappointments are woven together in their memories of Jack and his wife Amy

6.0

MagicScore

Oh, Canada

2024

Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.

5.8

MagicScore

Their Eyes Were Watching God

2005

A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston.

5.4

MagicScore

The Joke

1969

In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wife of one of his accusers.

6.4

MagicScore

Nocturnal Animals

2016

Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.

7.4

MagicScore

Secret Window

2004

Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

6.6

MagicScore

#10

Late Afternoon

2019

Emily finds herself disconnected from the world around her. She goes on a journey through her memories and relives different moments from her life. Emily must look to her past so that she may fully embrace the present.

7.4

MagicScore

#11

Reminiscence

2021

Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offers clients the chance to relive any memory they desire. His life changes when he meets a mysterious young woman named Mae. What begins as a simple matter of lost and found becomes a passionate love affair. But when a different client's memories implicate Mae in a series of violent crimes, Bannister must delve through the dark world of the past to uncover the truth about the woman he fell for.

6.5

MagicScore

#12

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2004

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

8.1

MagicScore

#13

Burning Man

2011

Tom is a British chef in a Bondi restaurant who seems to have decided there are no longer any rules he needs to obey. Whatever Tom is up to, his actions seem to be tolerated by those around him. As Tom descends into darkness, fragments of a different story begin to emerge. All the women in his world are trying in their own, very different ways to help put him back together.

5.9

MagicScore

#14

Dial M for Murder

1954

When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.

8.0

MagicScore

#16

With Love... from the Age of Reason

2010

The day she turns 40, Marguerite Flora, a successful rep for a nuclear power company, begins receiving letters she'd sent to herself at age seven. The letters tell her what to do if her life hasn't turned out the way she thought it should, when she was living in poverty with her mother and brother in a small village in southern France. She decides to go back to her birthplace to get the lawyer to stop the letters, but also to visit her childhood sweetheart and her long-forgotten brother, in order to find peace within herself.

5.5

MagicScore

#17

The Wizard of Oz

1925

A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.

5.4

MagicScore

#18

Sleep Tight

2011

César, an unhappy concierge, maintains a peculiar relationship with the very diverse inhabitants of the upper-class apartment building where he works in Barcelona.

7.1

MagicScore

#19

Alone

2007

When Pim and Ploy, twins conjoined at the stomach, are separated, the operation leaves Pim the surviving sister, haunted by Ploy's vengeful ghost.

7.2

MagicScore

#20

I Know What You Did Last Summer

1997

After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. Exactly one year later, the deadly secret resurfaces as they're stalked by a hook-handed figure.

6.0

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Sense of an Ending?

The top films similar to The Sense of an Ending by MovieMagicScore are Memento (8.2), A Letter to Three Wives (7.2), My Salinger Year (6.3). Each shares drama/mystery themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Sense of an Ending worth watching?

The Sense of an Ending holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.4/10 from 216 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Sense of an Ending?

The Sense of an Ending (2017) is a drama, mystery film directed by Ritesh Batra, starring Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Sense of an Ending?

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This ranked list pairs The Sense of an Ending (2017), a drama and mystery film from Ritesh Batra, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Jim Broadbent take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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Movies Like The Sense of an Ending (2017)

Memento

A Letter to Three Wives

My Salinger Year

Last Orders

Oh, Canada

Their Eyes Were Watching God

The Joke

Nocturnal Animals

Secret Window

Late Afternoon

Reminiscence

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Burning Man

Archive

Dial M for Murder

With Love... from the Age of Reason

The Wizard of Oz

Sleep Tight

Alone

I Know What You Did Last Summer

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