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10 Best Movies Like The Manhattan Front

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

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#1
The Last Rifleman

The Last Rifleman

2023★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Manhattan Front for fans of Drama & History & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding...

#2
Emperor

Emperor

2020★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Manhattan Front for fans of Drama & History & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green....

#3
Beneath Hill 60

Beneath Hill 60

2010★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Manhattan Front for fans of Drama & History & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggle BENEATH ...

#4
Waiting for Anya

Waiting for Anya

2020★ 6.2

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

During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain....

#5
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

1983★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Manhattan Front for fans of Drama & History & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large th...

#6
Max

Max

2002★ 6.1

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

In 1918, a young, disillusioned Adolf Hitler strikes up a friendship with a Jewish art dealer while weighing a life of passion for art vs. talent at politics...

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