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10 Best Movies Like The Restless Night

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

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#1
Emperor

Emperor

2020★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Restless Night for fans of History & War & Drama. 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....

#2
Field of Lost Shoes

Field of Lost Shoes

2015★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Restless Night for fans of History & War & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valle...

#3
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

1983★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Restless Night for fans of History & War & Drama. 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...

#4
Overlord

Overlord

1975★ 6.7

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

During World War II, a young man is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-Day, June 6th, 1944....

#5
Outlaws - For Greater Glory

Outlaws - For Greater Glory

2012★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Restless Night for fans of History & War & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country....

#6
The Royal Game

The Royal Game

2021★ 6.9

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

1938. While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA with his wife but is arrested by the Gestapo. Bartok remains steadfast and...

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