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10 Best Movies Like Canteen

If you loved Canteen, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The White Knights

The White Knights

2015★ 5.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Canteen for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Jacques Arnault, head of Sud Secours NGO, is planning a high impact operation: he and his team are going to exfiltrate 300 orphan victims of the Chadian civil war and bring them to...

#2
The Man Without a Past

The Man Without a Past

2002★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Canteen for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets...

#3
The Cranes Are Flying

The Cranes Are Flying

1957★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Canteen for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fi...

#4
Stonehearst Asylum

Stonehearst Asylum

2014★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Canteen for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying sta...

#5
Black Mass

Black Mass

2015★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Canteen for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Ma...

#6
Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil

1958★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Canteen for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain H...