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10 Best Movies Like Waiting on the Road

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

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#1
Mango Yellow

Mango Yellow

2002★ 6.6

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

The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil....

#2
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waiting on the Road 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....

#3
The Padre

The Padre

2018★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waiting on the Road 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-...

#4
Vitalina Varela

Vitalina Varela

2019★ 6.6

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

A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life....

#5
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

#6
TalhotBlond

TalhotBlond

2012★ 6.3

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

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately lead...

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