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10 Best Movies Like The Splendid Waster

If you loved The Splendid Waster, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Bang Bang Club

The Bang Bang Club

2011★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Splendid Waster for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - b...

#2
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Splendid Waster for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

#3
Sarafina!

Sarafina!

1992★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Splendid Waster for fans of Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A Soweto schoolgirl named Sarafina is galvanized to protest apartheid after her teacher is arrested for her activism, leading her to join the student resistance movement....

#4
Zulu

Zulu

1964★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Splendid Waster for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drif...

#5
Silverton Siege

Silverton Siege

2022★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Splendid Waster for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

After a failed sabotage mission, a trio of anti-apartheid freedom fighters ends up in a tense bank hostage situation. Based on a true story....

#6
London Calling

London Calling

2025★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Splendid Waster for fans of Action. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After fleeing the UK from a job gone wrong, a down on his luck hitman is forced to babysit the son of his new crime boss and show him how to become a man....

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