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10 Best Movies Like Checkmate

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

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#1
Love Is Overrated

Love Is Overrated

2025★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Checkmate for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Diagnosed «crap with girls» by his friends, Anis’ love life has barely a pulse. Three years after the loss of Isma, his best friend and mentor, Anis takes his courage in both hands...

#2
What's Love Got to Do with It?

What's Love Got to Do with It?

2023★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Checkmate for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two childhood friends now in their thirties must decide whether to follow their heads or their hearts once the man decides to follow his parents' advice and enter into an arranged ...

#3
Run to You

Run to You

2022★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Checkmate for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Gianni is a serial seducer but his life is destined to change when he meets Chiara, a beautiful woman who has had an accident and is paraplegic....

#4
Four to Dinner

Four to Dinner

2022★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Checkmate for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In this rom-com challenging the concept of soulmates, parallel storylines portray four single friends as they pair up in different couple combinations....

#5
Don't Blame Karma!

Don't Blame Karma!

2022★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Checkmate for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The travails of Sara, a frustrated fashion designer who blames karma for her bad luck. Fate will put her face to face with her sister, Lucy, who enjoys very different luck, and in ...

#6
Heart Parade

Heart Parade

2022★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Checkmate for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A careerist from Warsaw, who does not like dogs, has to go to Kraków for professional reasons, where she meets a charming widower, his son and their four-legged pet....