10 Best Movies Like Jacknife
If you loved Jacknife, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
Birdy
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Jacknife for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospi...
Behold a Pale Horse
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Jacknife for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish ho...
The Yellow Birds
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Jacknife for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Two young soldiers, Bartle and Murph, navigate the terrors of the Iraq war under the command of the older, troubled Sergeant Sterling. All the while, Bartle is tortured by a promis...
Bat*21
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Jacknife for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows...
King Rat
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Jacknife for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners ...
Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Jacknife for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, ...