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10 Best Movies Like Waiting for Life

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

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#1
I'm Not Here

I'm Not Here

2017★ 5.8

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

A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is....

#2
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#3
My Friend Ivan Lapshin

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

1985★ 6.8

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

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well....

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#5
Gigi & Nate

Gigi & Nate

2022★ 7.6

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

A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend....

#6
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

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