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10 Best Movies Like When Seconds Count

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

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#1
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Seconds Count 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...

#2
The Nest

The Nest

2020★ 6.1

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

Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of the...

#3
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Seconds Count 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....

#4
Almost Friends

Almost Friends

2017★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Seconds Count 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...

#5
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

#6
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

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