Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Wasted

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

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#1
The Basketball Diaries

The Basketball Diaries

1995★ 7.4

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

A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction....

#2
Palmer

Palmer

2021★ 8.1

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

After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubl...

#3
Permanent Midnight

Permanent Midnight

1998★ 5.9

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

Juggling increasing career success and a growing heroin habit, a television comedy writer attempts to go down a path of improvement....

#4
Trainspotting

Trainspotting

1996★ 8.0

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

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane...

#5
Beautiful Boy

Beautiful Boy

2018★ 7.6

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

After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to metha...

#6
River's Edge

River's Edge

1986★ 6.5

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

A group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Faced with the brutality of death, each must decide whether to turn...

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