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10 Best Movies Like I Wish I Knew

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

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#1
Still Life

Still Life

2006★ 7.2

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

A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and becom...

#2
Emitaï

Emitaï

1973★ 7.3

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

As World War II rages in Europe, a conflict arises between the French and the Diola-speaking tribe of Africa, prompting the village women to organize their men to sit beneath a tre...

#3
Heartbeat 100

Heartbeat 100

1987★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Wish I Knew for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A fiction writer and her sister travel to the country to work on a new novel, but local thugs and a murder complicate matters....

#4
Monkey Business

Monkey Business

1952★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Wish I Knew for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours th...

#5
The Return of Swamp Thing

The Return of Swamp Thing

1989★ 5.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Wish I Knew for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

The Swamp Thing returns to battle the evil Dr. Arcane, who has a new science lab full of creatures transformed by genetic mutation, and chooses Heather Locklear as his new object o...

#6
Rooster Cogburn

Rooster Cogburn

1975★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Wish I Knew for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of US Marshal Cogburn to hun...