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10 Best Movies Like The Perfect Candidate

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

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#1
Wadjda

Wadjda

2012★ 7.2

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

An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Quran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has capture...

#2
Won't Back Down

Won't Back Down

2012★ 6.1

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

Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken...

#3
Gracie

Gracie

2007★ 6.2

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

A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer....

#4
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

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

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

#5
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Perfect 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....

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A Hologram for the King

A Hologram for the King

2016★ 5.9

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

Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetual...

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