Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Wasted Times

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

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#1
The Boxer from Shantung

The Boxer from Shantung

1972★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Wasted Times for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and evil... Where his only protection i...

#2
Hidden Blade

Hidden Blade

2023★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Wasted Times for fans of Drama & Mystery. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Follows the story of underground workers who risked their lives to send intelligence and defend the motherland, set after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor when the Wang Jingwei regim...

#3
Shanghai

Shanghai

2010★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Wasted Times for fans of Drama & Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the de...

#4
Al Capone

Al Capone

1959★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Wasted Times for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago...

#5
Hoodlum

Hoodlum

1997★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Wasted Times for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bump...

#6
The Eight Hundred

The Eight Hundred

2020★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Wasted Times for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army....

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