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10 Best Movies Like The Waiting Room

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

#1
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

2019★ 7.0

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

An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encount...

#2
Following

Following

1999★ 7.1

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

Bill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly chosen strangers, a seemingly innocent entertainment that becomes dangerous when h...

#3
The Confession

The Confession

2001★ 6.6

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

A taut, beautifully acted psychological drama about a husband who suspects his wife of having an affair, but is terrified that confronting her about it might prove she really is....

#4
Fate

Fate

2001★ 7.2

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

Musa, a customs clerk, lives quietly with his mother. Tragedy and change come for him, as they do for everyone, and he must confront his own attitude towards life’s absurdity....

#5
The Shadowless

The Shadowless

2009★ 5.9

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

A barber working in Istanbul longs to be ‘both here and far, far away’. One day, he takes the day off and disappears abruptly without warning anyone. He then settles in a far-flung...

#6
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

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

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...