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...
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...
The War
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Jacknife for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep south in the 1970's....
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...
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, ...