Waiting movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant waiting movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, independent film, psychological, touching and sincere films and TV shows about / with waiting, friendship, death, telephone call, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, friend, family relations, mother daughter relationship and love plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as waiting: Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009), WALL·E (2008), SeaZone (2010), The Wait (2013), The First (2018), Bad Timing (1980), A Dog Named Palma (2021), Once Upon A Potty For Her (1990), 1000 to 1 (2014), Inside Man (2006).

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Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A drama based on the true story of a college professor's bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home.
Style: touching, emotional, sad, heartbreaking, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: dog, friendship, loyalty, pets, human animal relationship, life & death, animal, loss of friend, loneliness, loss, friends, death ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s
Place: japan, rhode island, usa
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 8.4
 1.2M
WALL·E (2008)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: WALL·E is the last robot left on an Earth that has been overrun with garbage and all humans have fled to outer space. For 700 years he has continued to try and clean up the mess, but has developed some rather interesting human-like qualities. When ...
Style: feel good, touching, futuristic, emotional, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot: loneliness, robot, space travel, ecology, outer space, post apocalypse, love, technology, artificial intelligence, society, happy ending, ecological disaster ...
Time: future, distant future, year 2008, 2000s
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TONIKAWA: Over the Moon for You (2020)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: First comes marriage, then comes an earthbound love that is out of this world! From the day his parents named him, Nasa Yuzaki has been destined for outer space...or so he believes. But while trying to join the space program, he is thrown for a ...
Style: anime, romantic, touching, sentimental, poignant
Plot: marriage, dream, teenage boy, looking for love, memory, encounter, teenage girl, love and romance, understanding, love, slice of life, hopes ...
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 5.2
 197
SeaZone (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Georgia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of 4 friends who take a journey to the sea-side town Batumi. When they get there they discover that they the city is empty. First that are scared and confused with the situation, but then they start taking advantage of it. They start ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, disturbing, tense
Plot: hunger, waiting, four friends, boy girl relationship, stealing food, torture, stranded, survival, save the day, vandalism, seaside town, maze ...
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 4.5
 740
The Wait (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An enigmatic phone call from a psychic catapults a family into a state of suspended belief while waiting for their recently deceased mother to be resurrected.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, surreal, mumblecore ...
Plot: siblings relations, supernatural, family in crisis, death of mother, afterlife, faith, waiting, love, death, sexual content, profanity, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.6
 8K
The First (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Follow the first human mission to Mars, exploring the challenges of taking the first steps toward interplanetary colonization. The story focuses not only on the astronauts, but also on their families and loved ones, as well as the ground team on ...
Style: serious, captivating, thought provoking, emotional, sentimental
Plot: mars, space colony, astronaut, space, space mission, family relations, waiting, nasa, society, flying, space program, atheism ...
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 6.9
 10K
Bad Timing (1980)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Though Alex is quite a bit older than Milena, he's attracted to her young, carefree spirit. Despite the fact that Milena is already married, their ...
Style: controversial, erotic, disturbing, art house, non-linear ...
Plot: voyeurism, female nudity, extramarital affair, obsession, infidelity, rape, rape victim, parallel universe, erotica, overdose, psychopath, investigation ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: vienna, britain, austria, europe, morocco ...
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The Guide to the Perfect Family (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A couple in Québec deals with the pitfalls, pressure and high expectations of raising kids in a society obsessed with success and social media image.
Style: captivating, psychological, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids
Plot: parenthood, mother son relationship, school, parents and children, social network, social criticism, mother daughter relationship, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, social problems ...
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A Dog Named Palma (2021)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film is inspired by an incredible story of a shepherd dog named Palm who was inadvertently left in the airport by her owner. She befriends nine-year old Nicholas whose mother dies leaving him with a father he barely knows - a pilot who finds the ...
Style: touching, sincere, heartbreaking, sweet, sentimental ...
Plot: dog, airport, human dog relationship, pilot, son, friendship, animal, human relationship, bonding, lost, life philosophy, coping ...
Time: 70s
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Once Upon A Potty For Her (1990)
Genre: Animation, Family, Musical
Story: Potty training movie
Audience: toddlers
Plot: accident, little girl, father, mother, little boy, doctor, flowers, baby, television, dance, cat, bird ...
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 6.8
 1K
1000 to 1 (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Cory Weissman is a college basketball player who suffers a devastating stroke. He perseveres to find new meaning in his life both on, and more importantly, off the court.
Style: captivating, emotional, serious, motivational, inspirational ...
Plot: rehabilitation, college, basketball, ambition, basketball player, hopes, against the odds, therapist, recovery, human spirit, disability, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
Story: This classic "Peanuts" tale focuses on the thumb-sucking, blanket-holding Linus, and his touching faith in the "Great Pumpkin." When Linus discovers that no one else believes in the creature, he sets out to prove that the ...
Style: gothic, scary, crying, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, preschool
Plot: halloween, holiday, peanuts, cartoon dog, monster, children, football, friendship, pumpkin, supernatural, canine, haunted ...
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 7.6
 395K
Inside Man (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Bank robber Dalton Russell enters a Manhattan bank, locks the doors and takes hostages, working methodically and without haste. Detective Frazier is assigned to negotiate, but his mind is occupied with the corruption charges he is facing. With an ...
Style: clever, detective, tense, suspense, surprise ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: heist, hostage, bank, bank robbery, robbery, twists and turns, perfect crime, manipulation, police detective, police, criminal, master criminal ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Das Boot - The Director's Cut (1981)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany, Italy, France, UK
Duration: 149 min.
Story: A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
Style: epic, suspenseful, realistic, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: submarine, world war two, navy, military, war, ocean, naval battle, nazi, anti war, battles, survival, ship captain ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1981, year 1942, year 1941
Place: germany, atlantic ocean, mediterranean sea
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 6.3
 84K
Animal (2023)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 204 min.
Story: A son undergoes a remarkable transformation as the bond with his father begins to fracture, and he becomes consumed by a quest for vengeance.
Style: suspense, surprise ending, neo noir, powerful, tragic ending
Plot: sex scene, gangster, relationships, father son conflict, fistfight, shootout, machine gun, smoking, hand to hand combat, toxic relationship, badass, self destructing ...
Place: india, delhi, scotland
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 7.1
 291K
The Lobster (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Greece, France, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Style: surreal, art house, absurd, ironic, allegory ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: dystopia, society, blindness, distopia, absurdism, manhunt, love, solitude, suicide attempt, hotel, relationships, woods ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, near future, future
Place: ireland, greece, hellas
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Waiting for Happiness (2002)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Mauritania
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story of two people who cross paths in Nouhadhibou.
Style: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, aesthetic ...
Plot: isolation, prostitute, beach, desert, social relations, hopes, teenage life, culture clash, african, blaxploitation, black, alienation ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: africa, europe, north africa
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 4.7
 211
Blind Fear (1989)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A blind employee at a New England lodge is in danger when a gang of killers arrives to stay at the lodge.
Style: independent film, surprise ending, twist ending
Plot: disabled, blindness, witness, woman driver, double murder, redheaded woman, female criminal, breaking the law, death of killer, murder, tragic event, older man younger woman relationship ...
Place: new england, maine
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Winter Sleepers (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, local cinema projectionist, steals Marco's car and gets into a car crash with local Theo, whose daughter, ...
Style: psychological, sexual, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: winter, mountain, amnesia, hospital, memory loss, male nudity, snow, coma, photography, death, infidelity, drinking ...
Time: 90s
Place: germany, bavaria, europe
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When the Wind Blows (1986)
Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II
Style: adult animation, bleak, apocalyptic, disturbing, realistic ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: nuclear holocaust, nuclear war, cold war, nuclear threat, tragedy, apocalypse, countryside, nuclear disaster, epidemic, chaos, post apocalyptic, distopia ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, distant future, 80s
Place: england, europe
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 7.4
 24K
Together (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called Together. Living in this leftist commune Elisabeth learns that the world can be viewed from ...
Style: touching, humorous, sentimental, witty, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hippie, commune, lesbian, lgbt, friendship, utopia, idealism, gay, loneliness, ideology, lifestyle, coming of age ...
Time: 70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
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 6.7
 11K
SubUrbia (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
Style: grindhouse, teen, independent film, talky, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: punk, male nudity, american football, public nudity, male pubic hair, high school, drug addiction, friendship, teenager, subculture, alienation, slacker ...
Time: year 1996, year 2016, 90s
Place: new jersey, seattle, texas, usa, new york ...
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The Station Agent (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
Style: tragicomedy, humorous, touching, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience: family friendly, chick flick
Plot: loneliness, bittersweet, friendship, depression, small town, melancholy, society, loss, solitude, prejudice, grief, railway ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: new jersey, nebraska, usa, canada, manhattan new york city
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 7.3
 21K
The Son's Room (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
Style: touching, sincere, sad, depressing, meditative ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychoanalysis, regret, loss of son, psychology, grief, parents and children, family problems, redemption, hopes, family in crisis, overcoming, running ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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 4.5
 2K
Sin (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Retired cop Eddie Burns gave 15 years and the use of his left arm to the Reno homicide squad. When his wayward sister, Kassie, goes missing Eddie Burns finds himself subjected to a fiendish and ingenious campaign of revenge by the mysterious Charlie ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: psychopath, betrayal, kidnapping, murder, police investigation, mind game, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, undercover, false accusation, serial killer, vigilante ...
Place: washington d.c., usa, reno nevada
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 6.0
 36K
6 Souls (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, fairy tale, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night
Plot: supernatural, psychiatrist, murder, supernatural horror, doctors and patients, split personality, female psychiatrist, twists and turns, mental illness, witch doctor, voodoo, demon ...
Time: year 2000, 80s, 2000s, 1910s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Escape from Tomorrow (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed father's sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with two underage girls on holiday.
Style: surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, enigmatic, black and white ...
Plot: amusement park, hallucination, disneyland, surrealism, dysfunctional family, losing-it hero, disorder, parents and children, adultery, loss of job, middle aged man, midlife crisis ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, florida
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Messiah of Evil (1974)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young woman goes searching for her missing artist father. Her journey takes her to a strange Californian seaside town governed by a mysterious undead cult.
Style: lovecraft, scary, atmospheric, creepy, classic horror ...
Plot: zombie, curse, undead, unhappy ending, folk horror, supernatural, cannibalism, vampire, occult, cannibal, virus, walking dead ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 19th century
Place: los angeles, california
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 8.0
 6K
Hachi-ko (1987)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1924, Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo, took in Hachikō, a golden brown Akita, as a pet. During his owner's life, Hachikō walk with him in the morning and greeted him at the end of each ...
Style: depressing, educational, touching, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friends, friendship, dog, animal, sadness, time travel, best friend, bittersweet, loyalty, dog actor, waiting, owner dog relationship ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 406
The Delay (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Uruguay, Mexico, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Agustín forgets things; he is aging and he knows it. María is never alone: she watches over everyone, sleeps very little, and works too much. She’s increasingly overwhelmed. One day, on impulse, María decides to abandon Agustín. The tightening ...
Style: touching, atmospheric, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot: family relations, life is a bitch, society, working class, family life, mental illness, single parent, urban ghetto life, poverty, old man, nursing, urban ghetto ...
Time: 21st century
Place: uruguay, latin america
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