Waiting Room Movies

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area.

A group of strangers find themselves aboard an unmanned ship, surrounded by fog and uncertain of their destination. As they attempt to make sense of their situation, the group of passengers discover a commonality that changes their perception of the nature of their journey. The film was later...

An unassuming woman meets a teenage boy's grief-stricken music teacher while sitting in a hospital waiting room.

Fran is waiting for her partner to join her for therapy. Consumed by her internal voice, the waiting room becomes transformed.

An unconventional dentist deals with patients in slapstick fashion.

Jean Bonnard, clean-cut industrialist and the only son of a widow, goes to visit his mother in the small village where she lives. However, early in the morning the police arrive to arrest him, accusing the man of having murdered the old banker who'd made advances towards his girlfriend. Jean's...

In a waiting room in the space between the living and the beyond, an unlikely pair sits impatiently for their final reckoning.

Man drags his girlfriend to hospital for abortion. A brat is a last thing needed right now. But sitting in a waiting room can change your mind.

Confined to an endlessly burning waiting room, a dying sedentary woman experiences herself blurring in and out of her body. In her last remaining fragments she tries to make amends with her spirit before her remaining fragments either decay or create.

Short Croatian documentary from the former Yugoslavia by Ante Babaja that captures the different faces in a waiting room.