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10 Best Movies Like I've Been Waiting So Long

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

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#1
The Lost City of Z

The Lost City of Z

2017★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I've Been Waiting So Long for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappear...

#2
A Secret

A Secret

2007★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I've Been Waiting So Long for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family histo...

#3
Something's Gotta Give

Something's Gotta Give

2003★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I've Been Waiting So Long for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When perpetually single, aging music industry exec Harry Sanborn, and his latest trophy girlfriend, Marin, arrive at her mother's beach house in the Hamptons, they find that her mo...

#4
Made in Dagenham

Made in Dagenham

2010★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I've Been Waiting So Long for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination....

#5
A Better Life

A Better Life

2011★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I've Been Waiting So Long for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old child, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but ...

#6
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I've Been Waiting So Long for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...