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10 Best Movies Like Wish You Were Here

If you loved Wish You Were Here, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Terminator: Dark Fate

Terminator: Dark Fate

2019★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wish You Were Here for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sar...

#2
Black Widow Business

Black Widow Business

2016★ 8.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wish You Were Here for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and eventually marries her. Not longer after their marriage, Kozo Nakase suddenly coll...

#3
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

2004★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wish You Were Here for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts into hilarity and even turnin...

#4
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wish You Were Here for fans of Crime. 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....

#5
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

2001★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wish You Were Here for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the...

#6
The Godfather

The Godfather

1972★ 8.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wish You Were Here for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attemp...