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10 Best Movies Like Heaven Can Wait

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

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#1
Journey to the Christmas Star

Journey to the Christmas Star

1976★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heaven Can Wait for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Once upon a time a little girl went out to find the Christmas Star....

#2
Sunburn

Sunburn

1979★ 4.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heaven Can Wait for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A model and a private eye help a New York insurance investigator on a deadly case in Acapulco....

#3
Red Planet Mars

Red Planet Mars

1952★ 4.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heaven Can Wait for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Husband-and-wife scientists pick up a pie-in-the-sky TV message supposedly from Mars....

#4
Miss December

Miss December

2011★ 4.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heaven Can Wait for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A dark romantic comedy about Ari, a young woman whose poor taste in men may be the death of her when she tries to find love with her would-be killer. The elusive Miss December kill...

#5
Adiós, cigüeña, adiós

Adiós, cigüeña, adiós

1971★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heaven Can Wait for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

During a trip to the mountains with their schoolmates, Arturo, who has just turned fifteen, gets thirteen-year-old Paloma pregnant....

#6
Salting the Battlefield

Salting the Battlefield

2014★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heaven Can Wait for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment. Johnny Worricker goes on the run w...