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10 Best Movies Like JFK

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

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#1
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

1994★ 6.5

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

Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his p...

#2
Buffalo '66

Buffalo '66

1998★ 7.1

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

Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will s...

#3
The Lady from Shanghai

The Lady from Shanghai

1947★ 7.3

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

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife....

#4
The Tree of Wooden Clogs

The Tree of Wooden Clogs

1978★ 7.6

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

On a turn-of-the-20th-century northern Italian farm, a group of sharecroppers eke out a threadbare existence. A priest advises Batisti and his wife Batistina that their young son M...

#5
The World of Apu

The World of Apu

1959★ 8.1

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

Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old college friend on a trip up-country to a village wedding....

#6
Life Is Sweet

Life Is Sweet

1990★ 7.0

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

Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, N...