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10 Best Movies Like Manderlay

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

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#1
The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation

2016★ 6.6

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

Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites....

#2
Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men

1992★ 7.3

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

Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams....

#3
Django Unchained

Django Unchained

2012★ 8.2

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

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner....

#4
Son of the South

Son of the South

2021★ 6.5

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

In civil rights era Montgomery, Alabama, Klansman's grandson Bob Zellner must choose which side of history to be on during the Movement. Defying his family and white Southern norms...

#5
Free State of Jones

Free State of Jones

2016★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Manderlay for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew ...

#6
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

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