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10 Best Movies Like How to Win at Checkers (Every Time)

If you loved How to Win at Checkers (Every Time), we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Indian Runner

The Indian Runner

1991★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two brothers cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to app...

#2
Kickboxer

Kickboxer

1989★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

If your enemy refuses to be humbled... Destroy him. Accompanied by his brother Kurt, American kickboxing champion Eric Sloane, arrives in Thailand to defeat the Eastern warriors at...

#3
The King of the Kickboxers

The King of the Kickboxers

1990★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Jake, a New York policeman poses as an actor to expose the making of martial-arts death movies in Thailand....

#4
Only God Forgives

Only God Forgives

2013★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Julian, who runs a Thai boxing club as a front organization for his family's drug smuggling operation, is forced by his mother Crystal to find and kill the individual responsible f...

#5
A Prayer Before Dawn

A Prayer Before Dawn

2018★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

The amazing true story of Billy Moore, an English boxer incarcerated in Thailand’s most notorious prison. Thrown into a world of drugs and violence, he finds his best chance to esc...

#6
Anemone

Anemone

2025★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Middle-aged Jem sets out from his suburban home on a journey into the woods, where he reconnects with his estranged hermit brother Ray. Bonded by a mysterious, complicated past, th...

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