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10 Best Movies Like Waiting for Happiness

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

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#1
Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot

1959★ 8.1

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

In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in....

#2
Timbuktu

Timbuktu

2014★ 7.0

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

Just outside of the Malian city of Timbuktu, now occupied by militant Islamic rebels who impose the Sharia on civilians and inconvenience their daily life, a cattleman kills a fish...

#3
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

2004★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waiting for Happiness for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s socialist economy. But industry is changing, and ...

#4
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

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

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...

#5
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#6
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waiting for Happiness for fans of Drama. 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...