
10 Best Movies Like Amistad
If you loved Amistad, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Billy Budd
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Amistad for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried....

Lord of War
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Amistad for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and ...

12 Years a Slave
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Amistad for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solo...

Land of the Blind
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Amistad for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government....

Against the Wall
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Amistad for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In 1971, a warden at Attica Penitentiary is caught up in a hostage crisis when inmates take over the prison to demand better living conditions....

Firebrand
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Amistad for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. When the king returns, increasingly ill and paranoid, Katherine finds herself fi...