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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
Marina

Marina

2019★ 5.0

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

Marina, a woman who dreams of becoming a whale, is faced with having her deepest desire declared a mental illness. Finding herself trapped and cornered, her only escape is transfor...

#2
Two Evil Eyes

Two Evil Eyes

1990★ 6.1

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

A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat....

#3
Bill Burr Presents: Friends Who Kill

Bill Burr Presents: Friends Who Kill

2022★ 5.4

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

In a night of killer comedy, Bill Burr hosts a showcase of his most raucous stand-up comic pals as they riff on everything from COVID to Michael Jackson....

#4
Saraband

Saraband

2003★ 7.2

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

A follow-up to Scenes from a Marriage (1973); some thirty years after divorcing Johan, Marianne decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a f...

#5
Head Over Heels 2

Head Over Heels 2

2012★ 6.3

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

Alice owns a network of sex shops and workaholic who, in trying to reconcile the harsh routine of work and family life, suffers nervous breakdown, she is forced by her husband to g...

#6
Weekend at Bernie's II

Weekend at Bernie's II

1993★ 5.0

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

Everybody's favorite stiff is back! Working fools Larry Wilson and Richard Parker have uncovered a dirty, little secret: Their former boss, Bernie Lomax, embezzled $2 million and p...