Movies Like Leaving (2009)

Leaving is a 2009 drama, romance film from Catherine Corsini with a MovieMagicScore of 6.0/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Open Hearts and The Soul Keeper.

Drama Romance

Open Hearts

2002

Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the hospital where he meets Cecilie and falls madly in love with her.

7.0

MagicScore

The Soul Keeper

2003

Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, soaring to the utmost heights, but also plunging to the darkest depths of the 20th century.

6.5

MagicScore

The Voyeur

1994

At a college in Rome, a professor, nicknamed "Dodo" is in a deep depression. His stunningly beautiful wife has just left him for another man. Dodo wants her back very badly and has erotic daydreams about her. A beautiful young student in his class asks him for a ride home and seduces the lucky man, but still he wonders about his wife and her lover.

5.5

MagicScore

Suddenly, Last Summer

1959

The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.

7.3

MagicScore

Darse cuenta

1984

The relationship between a doctor and a depressed young patient in a public hospital.

7.2

MagicScore

50/50

2011

Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

7.2

MagicScore

Hippocrates

2014

Benjamin is meant to be a great doctor, he’s certain of it. But his first experience as a junior doctor in the hospital ward where his father works doesn’t turn out the way he hoped it would. Responsibility is overwhelming, his father is all but present, and his co-junior partner, a foreign doctor, is far more experimented than he is. This internship will force Benjamin to confront his limits… and start his way to adulthood.

6.5

MagicScore

Wetlands

2013

Helen is a nonconformist teenage girl who maintains a conflictual relationship with her parents. Hanging out most of her time with her friend Corinna, with whom she breaks one social taboo after another, she uses sex as a way to rebel and break the conventional bourgeois ethic. After an intimate shaving accident, Helen ends up in the hospital where it doesn’t take long before she makes waves. But there she finds Robin, a male nurse who will sweep her off her feet...

5.3

MagicScore

Saddle Up For Revenge

2021

Parody of the acclaimed Australian series of the 80s, Return to Eden. Wealthy heiress Stephanie Harper marries athlete Craig Danners, without suspecting that he only wants her money and is having an affair with her best friend, Crystal. Craig and Crystal have a plan to get rid of Stephanie and steal her fortune by making her suffer a terrible accident, which leaves her face disfigured. She is saved by the handsome Doctor Danley, who performed a plastic surgery on Stephanie that turned her into a completely different and beautiful woman. Stephanie starts plotting her revenge against Craig and Crystal, who believe that she died in the accident.

5.1

MagicScore

#10

The Singing Detective

2003

Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.

5.0

MagicScore

#11

El señor doctor

1965

It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.

7.8

MagicScore

#12

A Little Bit of Heaven

2011

A guarded woman finds out she's dying of cancer but, when she meets her match, the threat of falling in love is scarier than death.

6.4

MagicScore

#13

Cairo Time

2009

In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches them both unawares.

5.9

MagicScore

#14

Babygirl

2024

A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.

5.7

MagicScore

#15

La Pointe Courte

1956

A penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the inhabitants of Sète in the South of France.

6.9

MagicScore

#16

Queen of Hearts

2019

Anne, a brilliant and dedicated advocacy lawyer specialising in society’s most vulnerable, children and young adults, lives what appears to be the picture-perfect life with her doctor-husband, Peter, and their twin daughters. When her estranged teenage stepson, Gustav, moves in with them, Anne’s escalating desire leads her down a dangerous rabbit hole which, once exposed, unleashes a sequence of events destined to destroy her world.

6.9

MagicScore

#17

The Man of My Life

2006

A man vacationing in the country with his wife and children finds ideas he has of himself unexpectedly challenged.

5.9

MagicScore

#18

The Anarchist's Wife

2008

Manuela is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a concentration camp, and upon his release, continues the fight against nationalism in the French resistance. Years pass without a word from him, but his wife never gives up hope of seeing him again.

5.5

MagicScore

#19

36 Fillette

1988

Lili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self-aware and holds her own in a café conversation with a concert pianist she meets, but she has a wild streak and she's testing her powers over men, finding that she doesn't always control her moods or actions, and she's impatient with being a virgin. She sets off with her brother to a disco, latching onto an aging playboy who is himself hot and cold to her. She is ambivalent about losing her virginity that night, willing the next, and determined by the third.

4.9

MagicScore

#20

Vagabond

1985

Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.

7.3

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Leaving?

The top films similar to Leaving by MovieMagicScore are Open Hearts (7.0), The Soul Keeper (6.5), The Voyeur (5.5). Each shares drama/romance themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Leaving worth watching?

Leaving holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.0/10 from 117 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Leaving?

Leaving (2009) is a drama, romance film directed by Catherine Corsini, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Sergi López, Yvan Attal.

Where can I find more recommendations like Leaving?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more drama recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Leaving

This ranked list pairs Leaving (2009), a drama and romance film from Catherine Corsini, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Kristin Scott Thomas 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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