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10 Best Movies Like Waiting to Exhale

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

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#1
Amos & Andrew

Amos & Andrew

1993★ 5.4

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

When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with arme...

#2
The Preacher's Wife

The Preacher's Wife

1996★ 5.8

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

Good-natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in. On top...

#3
The Wood

The Wood

1999★ 6.6

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

In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-America...

#4
How Stella Got Her Groove Back

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

1998★ 5.8

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

Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really live. But Delilah is about to ch...

#5
Carmen: A Hip Hopera

Carmen: A Hip Hopera

2001★ 6.2

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

An engaged Philadelphia policeman falls in love with a beautiful woman while dealing with a corrupt superior....

#6
Black Nativity

Black Nativity

2013★ 5.1

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

A street-wise teen from Baltimore who has been raised by a single mother travels to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged relatives, where he embarks on a...