Movies Like While Time is Away
If you liked While Time is Away (2023), a movie directed by Anthony Hett, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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The Big Chill (1983)
★ 6.8/10Seven old college friends gather for a weekend reunion after the funeral of one of their own.
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Moving On (2023)
★ 5.9/10Two old friends reconnect at their friend's funeral, and decide to exact revenge on the widower who wronged all three of them decades earlier.
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It's What's Inside (2024)
★ 6.5/10A pre-wedding reunion descends into a psychological nightmare for a group of college friends when a surprise guest arrives with a mysterious suitcase.
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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)
★ 6.5/10Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y…
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A-X-L (2018)
★ 6.4/10The life of a teenage boy is forever altered by a chance encounter with cutting edge military technology.
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Beaches (1988)
★ 6.7/10A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.
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Career Girls (1997)
★ 6.6/10A young college student in London moves into a flat and becomes best friends with a flatmate; the former moves into her own flat 4 years later but 6 years after their parting, the former returns to London to pay the…
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Tigertail (2020)
★ 6.7/10A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
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The Best of Me (2014)
★ 7.5/10A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
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If Only (2004)
★ 7/10After his impetuous musician girlfriend, Samantha, dies in an accident shortly after they had a fight (and nearly broke up), Ian Wyndham, a grief-stricken British businessman living in London gets a chance to relive…
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Mr. Church (2016)
★ 7.4/10A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
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Hide and Seek (2005)
★ 6.3/10David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an…
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Shallow Grave (1994)
★ 7/10When David, Juliet, and Alex find their new roommate dead with a large sum of money, they agree to hide the body and keep the cash. However, this newfound fortune gradually corrodes their friendship.
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The Sense of an Ending (2017)
★ 6.3/10A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.
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Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins (2009)
★ 6.4/10Unjustly accused of staging a spooky practical joke complete with ghosts, Daphne, Velma, Fred and Shaggy are suspended from Coolsville High. To clear their names, they team up to solve the supernatural mystery…and head…
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Strange Weather (2016)
★ 5.9/10Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
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Regular Show: The Movie (2015)
★ 7.9/10After a high school lab experiment goes horribly wrong, Mordecai and Rigby must go back in time to battle an evil volleyball coach in order to save the universe — and their friendship.
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Lorelei (2020)
★ 6/10A man is released from prison after 15 years. He reunites with his high school girlfriend, now a single mother of three. What follows is a lyrical take on love, regret and second chances.
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Roommates (2026)
★ 6.4/10When shy college freshman Devon asks cool-girl Celeste to be her roommate, a blossoming friendship quickly spirals into a war of passive aggression.