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10 Best Movies Like The Contest

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

#1
Graduation

Graduation

2016★ 6.7

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

After his daughter is assaulted and left with an injury that may jeopardize her opportunity to study in the UK, a Romanian doctor decides to do whatever it takes to secure her futu...

#2
Back to the Future

Back to the Future

1985★ 8.3

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

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty mu...

#3
The Lives of Others

The Lives of Others

2006★ 8.0

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

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the ...

#4
The Insider

The Insider

1999★ 7.5

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

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco....

#5
Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot

1959★ 8.1

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

In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in....

#6
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

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

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...