Movies like Leave the World Behind

“Leave the World Behind (2023) is a United States 2020s psychological-thriller that reframes a domestic retreat as a diagnostic site for contemporary technological anxiety. It stages a core conflict—privileged domestic order versus infrastructural failure—using restrained chiaroscuro lighting, a slow-burn tempo, and foregrounded diegetic sound to make material fragility legible. The film obliges viewers to reassess safety and entitlement, converting a family drama into a social mirror for generational unease.”