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10 Best Movies Like The Marathon

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

#1
Flodder

Flodder

1986★ 6.3

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

A low-class antisocial family ends up in a rich upper-class neighborhood and causes all sorts of trouble....

#2
Winter in Wartime

Winter in Wartime

2008★ 6.7

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

During World War II in the freezing winter of 1944-45 the western Netherlands are in the grip of a famine. Many people move east to provide for their families. Fourteen year old Mi...

#3
A Mighty Heart

A Mighty Heart

2007★ 6.4

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

Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death....

#4
Only Decent People

Only Decent People

2012★ 4.8

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

David Samuels is from an intellectual Jewish family from the posh Amsterdam Old South. He is also a man on a mission: to find a fabulous ghetto-queen with great tits and thick butt...

#5
Loving Cuba

Loving Cuba

2019★ 4.3

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

While a mother only just finds out that her daughter's dating a Cuban, she realises her daughter will get married on Cuba too. To hinder the failure-designated marriage, she immedi...

#6
Be Cool

Be Cool

2005★ 5.5

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

Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive along the way....