
10 Best Movies Like Matewan
If you loved Matewan, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The Molly Maguires
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Matewan for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company they work for by sabotaging min...

Rosewood
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Matewan for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923....

Pale Rider
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Matewan for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land....

Glory
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Matewan for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates....

Son of the South
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Matewan for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In civil rights era Montgomery, Alabama, Klansman's grandson Bob Zellner must choose which side of history to be on during the Movement. Defying his family and white Southern norms...

Lawless
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Matewan for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging. Middle brother Forrest is the...