15 Movies Like The Matchmaker

Loved The Matchmaker? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

Charm City Kings
#1

Charm City Kings

Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the straight-and-narrow and a road filled with fast money and violence.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Matchmaker.

Mammal
#2

Mammal

After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Matchmaker.

The Young One
#3

The Young One

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Matchmaker.

Teen Spirit
#4

Teen Spirit

A shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight dreams of pop stardom. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test her integrity, talent, and ambition.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Matchmaker.

Yes
#5

Yes

In the days following October 7, Y., a jazz musician, and his wife Yasmin, a dancer, resolve to say yes to everything. Y. and Yasmin sell their bodies and souls to the highest bidder, surrendering themselves and their art to Israel’s social, political and military elite. Soon, Y. is entrusted with a mission of the utmost importance: to compose the music for a rousing, ruthless new national anthem.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Matchmaker.

Apt Pupil
#6

Apt Pupil

One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock on his door.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Matchmaker.

Invincible
#7

Invincible

A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Matchmaker.

Urban Tale
#8

Urban Tale

A boy and a girl wake up in bed one morning, naked. The children's mother died a few weeks earlier. Before she died she asked her children to find their birth father who left them when they were still babies. Their quest in search of their father leads them to hospitals, nursing homes and holding cells. In the course of the quest the brother and sister meet people who provide them - like in parallel quantum universes - a glance into what their future lives may hold for them.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Matchmaker.

Waltz with Bashir
#9

Waltz with Bashir

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Matchmaker.

Won't Back Down
#10

Won't Back Down

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 school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Matchmaker.

Eleanor the Great
#11

Eleanor the Great

94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Matchmaker.

The Pawnbroker
#12

The Pawnbroker

A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Matchmaker.

Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story
#13

Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Matchmaker.

Antarctica
#14

Antarctica

Set in Tel Aviv, focuses on an interconnected group of friends and their various relationships. At the center is the adorably bookish Omer, about to turn 30, who still hasn't found himself, and his free-spirited best friend Miki, who both end up inadvertently dating the same handsome journalist, Ronen.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Matchmaker.

Gigi & Nate
#15

Gigi & Nate

A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Matchmaker.