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10 Best Movies Like Wait for Tomorrow

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

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#1
Glory to the Filmmaker!

Glory to the Filmmaker!

2007★ 6.3

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

Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project....

#2
Achilles and the Tortoise

Achilles and the Tortoise

2008★ 7.0

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

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, de...

#3
Almost Friends

Almost Friends

2017★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wait for Tomorrow for fans of Drama & Comedy. 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...

#4
CQ

CQ

2001★ 5.9

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

A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a n...

#5
Juniper

Juniper

2021★ 6.5

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

When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his lif...

#6
Fat Kid Rules The World

Fat Kid Rules The World

2012★ 6.7

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

A dropout comes to the aid of a chubby and suicidal high-school kid by recruiting him as the drummer for his upstart punk-rock band....

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