Movies like The Candidate 2018
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The Candidate (2018)
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Original name: El reino
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Manuel is a crooked politician who enjoys the lifestyle that kickbacks afford. He eats at fancy restaurants, parties with his friends on yachts, and provides a very luxurious lifestyle for his family. Manuel brazenly bribes, extorts, and pays off anyone who threatens to expose the activities of his inner circle. When he is singled out to take the fall for a case of fraudulent government contracts, rather than admit to any wrongdoing, Manuel decides to sell out his whole party in an effort to avoid jail time. It's a decision that puts many lives at risk.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, political thriller
Plot:
corruption, treason, politician, corrupt politician, politics, police, journalist, deception, husband wife relationship, arrest, evidence, money, party, death, office, bank, male nudity, mafia, mediterranean, fraud, treachery, ship, fight, police officer, train ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
spain, china, iberian peninsula, canada
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Most similar movies to The Candidate
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, psychological and suspenseful films with plots about investigation, murder, death, police, police investigation, corruption and politics mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Candidate: Smoke & Mirrors (2016), The Invisible Guest (2016), May God Save Us (2016), Nobody's Life (2002), God's Crooked Lines (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A tale of cheats and impostors, taking its inspiration from true facts and from one of the most intriguing characters of recent decades: the spy Francisco Paesa.
Style:
suspense, tense, rough, disturbing, touching ...
Plot:
money, thief, espionage, corruption, biopic, jail, government, police, minister, politics, train station, terrorist ...
Time:
90s, year 1988, year 2004, year 1994, year 1995 ...
Place:
spain, basque country, laos, geneva switzerland, thailand ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
"The Invisible Guest” turns on a young businessman who wakes up in a hotel room locked from the inside with the dead body of his lover next to him. He hires a prestigious lawyer, and over one night they work together to clarify what happened ...
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, suspense, twist ending, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
evidence, lawyer, lie, uncover truth, infidelity, suspect, death, murder suspect, interrogation, strong female character, moral dilemma, blackmail ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, barcelona
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Madrid, summer 2011. Economic crisis. 15-M movement and 1.5 million pilgrims waiting for the Pope’s arrival live side by side in a Madrid that’s hotter and more chaotic than ever. In this context, detectives Velarde and Alfaro must find what ...
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
serial killer, police inspector, investigation, priest, church, pope, murder, murder investigation, who done it, whodunit, police officer, partner ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
spain, madrid
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
It all began with a little white lie.
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, sexual, captivating ...
Plot:
suspicion of adultery, couples, secret life, infidelity, deception, liar, family relations, family life, dishonesty, love and romance, love triangle, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iberian peninsula, europe, spain, madrid
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Alice Gould, a private investigator, pretends to be mentally ill in order to enter a psychiatric hospital and gather evidence for the case she is working on: the death of a patient in unclear circumstances.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
female detective, murder investigation, mental disorder, uncover truth, police investigation, crime investigation, investigation, working undercover, murder mystery, secret, psychiatric patient, psychiatric ward ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An ambitious reporter, investigating a senator's assassination, realizes witnesses to the shooting are systematically dying and discovers a multi-million dollar corporation which serves as a front for the recruitment of political assassins.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, neo noir, political, intense ...
Plot:
politics, conspiracy, reporter, corruption, political conspiracy, journalism, murder, investigation, undercover, paranoia, assassin, media ...
Time:
70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place:
seattle, los angeles, washington state, usa, latin america
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Víctor is a child who is found casually roaming by a country road. His mother, Patricia, a well-known lawyer specialist in media trails, realizes about it and she goes to the hospital, where explains to the police that Víctor is deaf, and ...
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
kidnapping, seaport, lawyer, deaf, police, school, blackmail, trial, pregnant woman, danger, plot twist, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, catalonia
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
This is the 2019 feature film currently in post-production. Not the 2017 Oscar nominated short from the same director.
Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful, entertaining
Plot:
older woman teenage boy relationship, missing son, motherhood, female protagonist, oedipus complex, teenage boy, dangerous attraction, women, fatal attraction, family relations, loss, skinny dipping ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic but for their ...
Style:
interesting
Plot:
rural setting, mother daughter conflict, farmer, couples, mountain, vegetable garden, village, misery, contaminated water, contamination, horse, poverty ...
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Spain, Lithuania, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A Trans-Siberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.
Style:
suspense, sexy, tense, psychological thriller, twist ending ...
Plot:
murder, train, travel, couples, murder mystery, transgression, sexual tension, violent, drug, winter, drug smuggling, train travel ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
china, russia, siberia, moscow russia
Similarity:
63%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double ...
Style:
neo noir, detective, atmospheric, cult classic, clever ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
private detective, corruption, femme fatale, investigation, police, whodunit, murder, twists and turns, conspiracy, murder mystery, father daughter incest, domestic violence ...
Time:
20th century, year 1937, 1930s, year 1974
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, eastern europe, pacific ocean ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Johanna is a therapist on the verge of a midlife crisis. When one of her patients is found brutally murdered, she takes it upon herself to solve the mystery. But why is this stressed-out shrink willing to risk her marriage, her career and her entire ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, midlife crisis, investigation, doctors and patients, therapist, female protagonist, police, car accident, danger, haunted by the past, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
What if ... you let a stranger into your house to use your phone, but while you've been patiently waiting in the kitchen, he just disappears ... or does he? Félix, an architect who has just split up with his girl-friend and inhabits a huge ...
Style:
psychological thriller, scary, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
intruder, home invasion, hearing voices, european, ghost, surrealism, male nudity, masturbation, neighbor, female nudity, animal death, claustrophobia ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A psychiatrist faces his past, present and future when he finds himself involved in the treatment of a young man recently released from prison for a murder committed when the boy was just 11 years old.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, captivating
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
suicide, saving a life, mental patient, psychiatrist, juvenile delinquent, husband wife relationship, self defense, haunted by the past, danger, death, psychopath, young boy ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Frederick Salomon, a war photojournalist who became worldwide famous for capturing the image of a girl flying through the air as consequence of an explosion, returns to the country where he took the celebrated picture twenty years before. He is back ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, political thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot:
black woman, conflict, explosions, photographer, journalist, trauma, guilt, revenge, ethical dilemma, investigative journalism, conspiracy, investigation ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Page Eight is lovingly turned, with elegant writing, a flawless cast and a heartfelt message from writer/director David Hare about the danger zone where spies and politicians meet. The tension builds gently as we follow the fortunes of Johnny ...
Style:
political thriller, political, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
spy, blackmail, espionage, politics, prime minister, secret service, funeral, intelligence agency, undercover, government agency, loss of friend, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, united kingdom, europe
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A tragic love story set in East Berlin with the backdrop of an undercover Stasi controlled culture. Stasi captain Wieler is ordered to follow author Dreyman and plunges deeper and deeper into his life until he reaches the threshold of doubting the ...
Style:
gloomy, political thriller, sincere, political, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
surveillance, cold war, spy, communism, berlin wall, stasi, politics, redemption, espionage, iron curtain, life philosophy, voyeurism ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989, 2000s, 90s ...
Place:
east germany, germany, berlin germany, europe, soviet union ...
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The Financial Director for a democratic super PAC behind a frontrunner presidential candidate investigates donations, uncovering a conspiracy.
Style:
political thriller, psychological, political, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
conspiracy, political conspiracy, political corruption, politics, problem, secret, crime solving, uncover truth, business tycoon, political unrest, male protagonist, financier ...
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The sudden disappearance of a wealthy banker's wife cracks open a dizzying world of secret fetishes, desperate acts and elaborate deceptions.
Style:
suspense, erotic, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
fake kidnapping, ransom, bank, abduction, uncover truth, disappearance, investigation, mysterious disappearance, kidnapping, husband wife relationship, woman on top, puffy nipples ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
57%
160K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the ...
Style:
suspense, clever, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lawyer, corruption, murder, law firm, conspiracy, fbi, surveillance, murder mystery, blackmail, chase, legal, seduction ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
boston, memphis, harvard university, usa, tennessee ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident. In director Roman ...
Style:
political thriller, atmospheric, suspense thriller, political, tricky ...
Plot:
writers, twists and turns, political conspiracy, politics, investigation, writer's life, betrayal, espionage, desert island, conspiracy, suspicion, uncover truth ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new england, new york, oxford university, massachusetts, britain ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Kenya, France, USA, Switzerland, Canada, Brazil
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very ...
Style:
political thriller, tense, political, suspense, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
conspiracy, marriage, spy, lovers, death, murder, politics, corruption, passion, investigation, aids, idealism ...
Time:
2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
africa, sudan, germany, london, kenya ...
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Style:
psychological, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, clever ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, boys' night ...
Plot:
twists and turns, psychology, murder mystery, missing person, manipulation, infidelity, investigation, marriage, femme fatale, revenge, missing wife, adultery ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 2000s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
peru, america, usa, manhattan new york city, new york ...
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story of the encounter between a boy and a girl. He confesses that he fell in love with her at first sight, but she does not believe him. However, as they walk through the night in Madrid, they share their desires, secrets, and maybe a few ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, talky, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
discussion, night, wooing, battle of the sexes, gain trust, youth, stalking, love and romance, party, lie, mirror, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe, madrid, stockholm sweden
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events from the 1970s, the story revolves around a young detective who becomes the head of a police unit focused on catching a rampant serial killer of women, nicknamed 'The Silesian Vampire'.
Style:
suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, suspect, police, murder, investigation, trial, husband wife relationship, false accusation, murder suspect, lie, police detective, suspicion ...
Time:
70s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In a broken city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart seeks redemption and revenge after being double-crossed and then framed by its most powerful figure, the mayor. Billy's relentless pursuit of justice, matched only by his streetwise ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, rough, political, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
revenge, private detective, conspiracy, twists and turns, betrayal, politics, infidelity, mayor, political corruption, corruption, haunted by the past, private investigator ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, usa, new jersey ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.
Style:
political, suspense, suspenseful, tense, political thriller ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
political conspiracy, politics, investigation, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, lawyer, spy, political corruption, corruption, secret service, fbi, surveillance ...
Time:
90s, future, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., new orleans, southern usa, new york
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Findlay Crawford, a Hollywood film composer and conductor, murders a talented composer/musician who has been ghostwriting most of Crawford's work in recent years, including the entire score for the last film, which won an Oscar. Crawford is ...
Style:
detective, psychological, tense, suspense, crime drama
Plot:
composer, investigation, jealousy, hollywood, murder, evidence, whodunit, police procedural, deception, motive, showbiz, interrogation ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
56%
712
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
It's summer, somewhere in the Dordogne, young people disappear. The wildest rumors circulate, we are talking about a feline prowling. Laura, seeks to elucidate the mystery and meets Paul, a strange writer who attracts him as much as he scares ...
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
camping, sex scene, missing person, police, flashback, murder, mysterious stranger, danger, suspicion, friendship, death, women ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A cross-country trip turns out to be a nightmare for a troubled couple.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
missing person, family problems, couples, danger, crumbling marriage, alcoholic, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, guilt, father son relationship, family relations, summer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, basque country, europe, paris france
Similarity:
56%
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