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10 Best Movies Like Waiting for the Midnight Express

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

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#1
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waiting for the Midnight Express 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....

#2
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waiting for the Midnight Express 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....

#3
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

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

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

#4
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

#5
Violent Saturday

Violent Saturday

1955★ 6.8

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

Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly....

#6
The Padre

The Padre

2018★ 5.9

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

American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-...

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