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.

Red Dust
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...

Disgrace
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 ...

In My Country
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....

Skin
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....

Catch a Fire
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...

Escape from Pretoria
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 ...