Movies like The Candidate

20 movies like The Candidate, ordered by similarity : The Bad News Bears(1976), My Art(2016), BlacKkKlansman(2018), The Love Witch(2016), Junior Bonner(1972), Dean Spanley(2008), The Sisters Brothers(2018), Roll Bounce(2005), Conversations With My Gardener(2007), Funny Bones(1995), Sherlock, Jr.(1924), The Truman Show(1998) ...

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The Candidate

An image maker (Peter Boyle) grooms the son (Robert Redford) of a political boss (Melvyn Douglas) for a token bid in a U.S. Senate race.

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star 7.3/10
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The Bad News Bears

An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.

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My Art

Frustrated by her lack of recognition, a middle-aged artist leaves the city for upstate New York to regain her creative spark.

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star 7.5/10
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BlacKkKlansman

Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.

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star 6.2/10
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The Love Witch

A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.

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star 6.8/10
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Junior Bonner

Ace Bonner returns to Arizona several years after he abandoned his family, Junior Bonner is a wild young man. Against the typical rodeo championship, family drama erupts.

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Dean Spanley

Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian, they start a strange journey that eventually allows the old man to find his heart.

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The Sisters Brothers

In 1850s Oregon, the infamous duo of assassins, Eli Sisters (John C. Reilly) and Charlie Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix), chase a gold prospector and his unexpected ally.

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star 6.1/10
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Roll Bounce

In the summer of 1978, a teenager and his group of friends face new challenges when their neighborhood roller-skating rink closes, forcing them to visit a different rink.

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Conversations With My Gardener

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star 6.8/10
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Funny Bones

An unsuccessful comedian uncovers a family secret and learns the true price of letting inherent talent shine.

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star 8.2/10
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Sherlock, Jr.

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

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The Truman Show

An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show.

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star 7.1/10
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Win Win

A struggling lawyer and volunteer wrestling coach's chicanery comes back to haunt him when the teenage grandson of the client he has double-crossed comes into his life.

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The Ides of March

An idealistic staffer for a new presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail.

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star 6.9/10
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That Thing You Do!

A local Pennsylvania band scores a one hit wonder in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as they can, with lots of help from its manager.

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The Apartment

A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

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star 6.8/10
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

In a bid to gain respect, the neglected younger son of a working class Jewish family in Montréal embarks on a series of get-rich-quick schemes to buy land surrounding a lake.

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star 6.8/10
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Melvin and Howard

The story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.

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star 8.2/10
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit.

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star 6.7/10
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Caterina Goes to Town

Caterina, forced to leave her small town at the age of thirteen, faces the complications of living in the big metropoly of Rome.

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