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10 Best Movies Like Hurry Up & Wait

If you loved Hurry Up & Wait, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Code 3

Code 3

2025★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hurry Up & Wait for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A burned-out paramedic tries to survive his last 24 hours on the job while training a new recruit....

#2
In the Soup

In the Soup

1992★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hurry Up & Wait for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film....

#3
CQ

CQ

2001★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hurry Up & Wait for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a n...

#4
The Legend of Barney Thomson

The Legend of Barney Thomson

2015★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hurry Up & Wait for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the gr...

#5
The Middle Man

The Middle Man

2021★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hurry Up & Wait for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communic...

#6
¿Y cómo es él?

¿Y cómo es él?

2022★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hurry Up & Wait for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Thomas is a meek man on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Despite his situation he decides to fake a work trip to go to Vallarta to confront Jero, a taxi driver who is sleeping wit...

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