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10 Best Movies Like The Perfect Candidate

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

#1
Set It Off

Set It Off

1996★ 7.2

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

Four inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule — get what you want or die trying. So the four women take back their lives and ta...

#2
Non-Fiction

Non-Fiction

2018★ 5.4

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

Alain, a successful Parisian publisher struggling to adapt to the digital revolution, has major doubts about the new manuscript of Léonard, one of his long-time authors — another w...

#3
Delete History

Delete History

2020★ 5.0

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

In a provincial suburb, three neighbours come to terms with the consequences of the new world of social media. Marie, who lives off her husband’s family allowance, is afraid of los...

#4
The Bat Woman

The Bat Woman

1968★ 5.5

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

When a mad scientist begins kidnapping wrestlers and extracting their spinal fluid to create a race of Gill Men, two cops call in Batwoman to investigate. But when her mission leav...

#5
The Time That Remains

The Time That Remains

2009★ 7.1

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

An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day. A semi-biographic film, in four chapters, about a family spanning from 1948 until recent t...

#6
Romantic Guide to Lost Places

Romantic Guide to Lost Places

2020★ 5.7

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

Benno and Allegra: he's over fifty, English, and drinks like a fish; she's twenty years younger, a travel blogger with lots of imagination. They both live off their lies and have n...