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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.

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#1
Eight Men Out

Eight Men Out

1988★ 6.9

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

Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpa...

#2
The Church

The Church

1989★ 6.0

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

In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass grave of a Teutonic purge, an ancient discovery by the new librarian will release an unholy maelstrom of madness, violence, and demonic veng...

#3
Drowning by Numbers

Drowning by Numbers

1988★ 7.0

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

Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings....

#4
Lone Star

Lone Star

1996★ 7.0

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

When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town....

#5
Train of Life

Train of Life

1998★ 7.3

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

In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine....

#6
Reds

Reds

1981★ 6.9

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

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revo...