Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 17, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Wait

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

🏆

Expert Review & Ratings

See our full critical analysis and audience score for The Wait.

View Review →
Advertisement
#1
Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016★ 6.3

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

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl....

#2
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#3
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

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

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#4
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#5
Almost Friends

Almost Friends

2017★ 6.3

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

A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a s...

#6
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Wait 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....

Advertisement