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10 Best Movies Like The Guard

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

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#1
Cadence

Cadence

1990★ 6.7

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

As punishment for drunken, rebellious behavior, a young white soldier is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. But instead of falling victim to racial hatred,...

#2
A Driver for Vera

A Driver for Vera

2004★ 6.0

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

The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private ch...

#3
The Lords of Discipline

The Lords of Discipline

1983★ 6.6

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

Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep a...

#4
The Experiment

The Experiment

2010★ 6.4

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

20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control....

#5
Schindler's List

Schindler's List

1993★ 8.6

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

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II....

#6
Bent

Bent

1997★ 6.9

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

Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to b...

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