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10 Best Movies Like The Matador

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

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#1
Easy Money

Easy Money

1983★ 6.0

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

To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him....

#2
The Taint

The Taint

2011★ 4.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Matador for fans of Action & Comedy. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

The water is tainted. The Taint poisons the minds of men. It turns them into raging misogynists: monsters who want nothing more than to crush women's heads with rocks (or other obj...

#3
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase

The Great Texas Dynamite Chase

1976★ 4.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Matador for fans of Action & Comedy & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Candy and Ellie Jo are a pair of sexy bank robbers who blast their way into small-town banks with a carload of dynamite! When they take Slim hostage, it begins a thrill-packed crim...

#4
Samsara

Samsara

2002★ 7.5

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

A love story situated in the Himalayas. A Buddhist monk can't choose between life and the way of the Buddha....

#5
Man of the House

Man of the House

2005★ 5.8

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

Texas Ranger Roland Sharp is assigned to protect the only witnesses to the murder of a key figure in the prosecution of a drug kingpin -- a group of University of Texas cheerleader...

#6
Stop Making Sense

Stop Making Sense

1984★ 8.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Matador for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album "Speaking in Tongues." The band takes the stage one by one and is joined by...