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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.

#1
Through Main Street with an Orchestra

Through Main Street with an Orchestra

1986★ 6.4

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

Vasily Muravin, 50, a teacher at the Moscow Institute of Management, is experiencing a crisis. At work, the place of the head of the department is replaced by the more pragmatic, b...

#2
Return

Return

2018★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Checkmate for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

This is a documentary linking ecological and political problems. The planet has come to be less important than the multinational earnings, and with it politicians earnings as well....

#3
Funny Farm

Funny Farm

1988★ 6.2

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

Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farm...

#4
Soup or Sonic

Soup or Sonic

1980★ 6.6

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

The coyote chases the road runner, but in this one he actually succeeds, to his bemusement....

#5
Re-Elected

Re-Elected

2020★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Checkmate for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Friends battle former U.S. presidents when they come back from the dead as zombies on the Fourth of July....

#6
The Dream with Roy and H.G.

The Dream with Roy and H.G.

2000★ 6.0

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

A watershed program in Australian television, The Dream aired every night for the 15 nights of the Sydney Olympic Games. Roy and HG engaged in loosely scripted banter, hilarious at...