diff --git a/Lib/test/regrtest.py b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
--- a/Lib/test/regrtest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ Selecting tests
 -f/--fromfile   -- read names of tests to run from a file (see below)
 -x/--exclude    -- arguments are tests to *exclude*
 -s/--single     -- single step through a set of tests (see below)
+-m/--match PAT  -- match test cases and methods with glob pattern PAT
 -G/--failfast   -- fail as soon as a test fails (only with -v or -W)
 -u/--use RES1,RES2,...
                 -- specify which special resource intensive tests to run
@@ -242,7 +243,7 @@ def main(tests=None, testdir=None, verbo
          findleaks=False, use_resources=None, trace=False, coverdir='coverage',
          runleaks=False, huntrleaks=False, verbose2=False, print_slow=False,
          random_seed=None, use_mp=None, verbose3=False, forever=False,
-         header=False, failfast=False):
+         header=False, failfast=False, match_tests=None):
     """Execute a test suite.
 
     This also parses command-line options and modifies its behavior
@@ -270,13 +271,13 @@ def main(tests=None, testdir=None, verbo
 
     support.record_original_stdout(sys.stdout)
     try:
-        opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'hvqxsSrf:lu:t:TD:NLR:FwWM:nj:G',
+        opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'hvqxsSrf:lu:t:TD:NLR:FwWM:nj:Gm:',
             ['help', 'verbose', 'verbose2', 'verbose3', 'quiet',
              'exclude', 'single', 'slow', 'random', 'fromfile', 'findleaks',
              'use=', 'threshold=', 'trace', 'coverdir=', 'nocoverdir',
              'runleaks', 'huntrleaks=', 'memlimit=', 'randseed=',
              'multiprocess=', 'coverage', 'slaveargs=', 'forever', 'debug',
-             'start=', 'nowindows', 'header', 'failfast'])
+             'start=', 'nowindows', 'header', 'failfast', 'match'])
     except getopt.error as msg:
         usage(msg)
 
@@ -318,6 +319,8 @@ def main(tests=None, testdir=None, verbo
             random_seed = int(a)
         elif o in ('-f', '--fromfile'):
             fromfile = a
+        elif o in ('-m', '--match'):
+            match_tests = a
         elif o in ('-l', '--findleaks'):
             findleaks = True
         elif o in ('-L', '--runleaks'):
@@ -502,6 +505,7 @@ def main(tests=None, testdir=None, verbo
     test_times = []
     support.verbose = verbose      # Tell tests to be moderately quiet
     support.use_resources = use_resources
+    support.match_tests = match_tests
     save_modules = sys.modules.keys()
 
     def accumulate_result(test, result):
diff --git a/Lib/test/support.py b/Lib/test/support.py
--- a/Lib/test/support.py
+++ b/Lib/test/support.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import subprocess
 import imp
 import time
 import sysconfig
+import fnmatch
 import logging.handlers
 
 try:
@@ -177,6 +178,7 @@ max_memuse = 0           # Disable bigme
                          # small sizes, to make sure they work.)
 real_max_memuse = 0
 failfast = False
+match_tests = None
 
 # _original_stdout is meant to hold stdout at the time regrtest began.
 # This may be "the real" stdout, or IDLE's emulation of stdout, or whatever.
@@ -1183,6 +1185,18 @@ def check_impl_detail(**guards):
     return guards.get(platform.python_implementation().lower(), default)
 
 
+def _filter_suite(suite, pred):
+    """Recursively filter test cases in a suite based on a predicate."""
+    newtests = []
+    for test in suite._tests:
+        if isinstance(test, unittest.TestSuite):
+            _filter_suite(test, pred)
+            newtests.append(test)
+        else:
+            if pred(test):
+                newtests.append(test)
+    suite._tests = newtests
+
 
 def _run_suite(suite):
     """Run tests from a unittest.TestSuite-derived class."""
@@ -1218,6 +1232,14 @@ def run_unittest(*classes):
             suite.addTest(cls)
         else:
             suite.addTest(unittest.makeSuite(cls))
+    def case_pred(test):
+        if match_tests is None:
+            return True
+        for name in test.id().split("."):
+            if fnmatch.fnmatchcase(name, match_tests):
+                return True
+        return False
+    _filter_suite(suite, case_pred)
     _run_suite(suite)