← Back to Review

10 Best Movies Like The Candidate

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

#1
The Great Waldo Pepper

The Great Waldo Pepper

1975★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Candidate for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A biplane pilot and WWI veteran takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory days he misses....

#2
The Boy Who Could Fly

The Boy Who Could Fly

1986★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Candidate for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Milly and Louis, and their recently-widowed mom, Charlene, move to a new neighborhood. Once there, they all deal with a variety of personal problems, but Milly finds a friend in Er...

#3
Grand Prix

Grand Prix

1966★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Candidate for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

The most daring drivers in the world have gathered to compete for the 1966 Formula One championship. After a spectacular wreck in the first of a series of races, American wheelman ...

#4
The Pawnbroker

The Pawnbroker

1965★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Candidate for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions....

#5
Imagining Argentina

Imagining Argentina

2003★ 5.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Candidate for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after C...

#6
The Iceman Cometh

The Iceman Cometh

1973★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Candidate for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and props everyone up with free drinks ...