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10 Best Movies Like Anthony

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

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#1
Across the Universe

Across the Universe

2007★ 7.1

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

When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in l...

#2
Nowhere Boy

Nowhere Boy

2009★ 7.2

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

A rebellious teenager, future Beatle John Lennon lives with his Aunt Mimi in working-class mid-1950s Liverpool, England. Mimi's husband suddenly dies, and John spies his mother Jul...

#3
Cheaters

Cheaters

2000★ 6.2

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

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition....

#4
Borstal Boy

Borstal Boy

2001★ 6.2

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

Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old IRA foot soldier, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehen...

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#6
Edge of the City

Edge of the City

1957★ 7.1

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

A male army deserter and a black male dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager, in a corrupt environment, and as their connection blossoms they must face the oppressive an...

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