
10 Best Movies Like Playing for Time
If you loved Playing for Time, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Divorce Italian Style
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing for Time for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into hav...

Hope Floats
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing for Time for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Birdee Pruitt has been humiliated on live television by her best friend, Connie, who's been sleeping with Birdee's husband, Bill. Birdee tries starting over with her daughter, Bern...

The Glass Menagerie
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing for Time for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past. Her son plans escape; her daughter withdraws into a dream world. ...

The Crime of Cacaro Gumaro
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing for Time for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
After their fathers death, two brothers dispute the inheritance: the local movie theater known as Linterna Mújica. Their dispute may or not bring the town to its apocalypse, but it...

Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing for Time for fans of Music. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on Les Parapluies de Cherbourg or Les Demoiselles De Rochefort with the famous director ...

The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing for Time for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and...