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10 Best Movies Like The Candidate

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

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#1
Red Dust

Red Dust

2004★ 5.8

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

Sarah Barcant, a lawyer in New York City who grew up in South Africa, returns to her childhood dwelling place to intercede for Alex Mpondo, a Black South African politician who was...

#2
Disgrace

Disgrace

2008★ 6.2

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

Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic success, and ...

#3
In My Country

In My Country

2004★ 5.9

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

An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings....

#4
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

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

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

#5
Catch a Fire

Catch a Fire

2006★ 6.2

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

The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the w...

#6
Escape from Pretoria

Escape from Pretoria

2020★ 7.2

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

South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape ...

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