Movies like The Road to Guantanamo (2006)
The best movies like The Road to Guantanamo (2006) are Five Minarets in New York (2010), In This World (2003) and Omagh (2005). If The Road to Guantanamo hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedThe Good Lie (2014)7.5/10 from 637 votes
- NewestDanny Boy (2021)Released 2021
Five Minarets in New York (2010)
Two Turkish anti-terrorist agents are sent to New York City on a mission to find and bring back the dangerous Islamic leader codenamed "Dajjal", believed to be hiding in there. Working with the FBI and NYPD, the agents orchestrate the arrest of Hadji Gumus, a well-respected Muslim scholar and family man who years before fled to the United States after being released from a Turkish prison, where he served time for murder. This tale love, friendship, peace and prejudices, takes us on a journey seeking to answer the question of whether innocence or guilt even matters to one who lusts for vengeance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisIn This World (2003)
Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, north-west Pakistan. Entering Turkey on foot through a snowy, Kurdish-controlled pass, the pair again take their lives into their hands and face suffocation when they are locked in a freight container on a ship bound for Italy. From there they plan to travel on to Paris, the Sangatte refuge centre and ultimately asylum in London.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOmagh (2005)
The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the relatives of the victims starts an examination to bring the people responsible to court.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Route Irish (2011)
A private security contractor in Iraq rejects the official explanation of his friend's death and sets out to uncover the truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisRosewater (2014)
In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly come back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSergio (2020)
A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most treacherous mission of his career.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Last King of Scotland (2006)
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStorm (2009)
Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor of Hague's Tribunal for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, charges a Serbian commander for killing Bosniaks. However, her main witness might be lying, so the court sends a team to Bosnia to investigate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Bobby (2006)
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Pirates of Somalia (2017)
After an inspiring chance encounter with his idol, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur uproots his life and moves to Somalia looking for the story of a lifetime. Hooking up with a local fixer, he attempts to get embedded with the local Somali pirates, only to quickly find himself in over his head.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Mighty Heart (2007)
Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Journey (2017)
Firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland, are forced to take a short journey together in which they will take the biggest leap of faith and change the course of history.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShooting Dogs (2006)
Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSome Mother's Son (1996)
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Song for Jenny (2015)
A Song For Jenny is the true story of Julie Nicholson's response to her daughter Jenny’s murder in the July 7th bombing at Edgware Road tube station. Starring Emily Watson as Julie, A Song For Jenny details the dramatic and profound impact of violence on one woman and a family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Reg (2016)
In June 2003, Reg Keys and his wife Sally return to their home in the Welsh countryside. As they switch on the TV to hear six military policemen have been murdered in Iraq, two men arrive bearing the terrible news that their son, Tom, was among them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Rendition (2007)
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Attack (2012)
An Arab surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDanny Boy (2021)
Soldier Brian Wood, is accused of war crimes in Iraq by the human rights lawyer Phil Shiner. The two men go head to head in a legal and moral conflict that takes us from the battlefield, at so-called Checkpoint Danny Boy, to the courtroom and one of Britain’s biggest ever public inquiries, the Al-Sweady Inquiry.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSyriana (2005)
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Good Lie (2014)
A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like this12 and Holding (2006)
Three close knit 12-year-olds - introverted Jacob, precocious Malee and vulnerable Leonard - start down the path of self-discovery and begin to distinguish their own voices from those of their parents.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHoly Rollers (2010)
Inspired by actual events in the late nineties when Hasidic Jews were recruited as mules to smuggle ecstasy from Europe into the United States.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Hunting Party (2007)
A young journalist, an experienced cameraman and a discredited reporter find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling out of control when a UN representative mistakes them for a CIA hit squad.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Football Factory (2004)
The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence, it's about men looking for armies to join, wars to fight and places to belong. A forgotten culture of Anglo Saxon males fed up with being told they're not good enough and using their fists as a drug they describe as being more potent than sex and drugs put together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Name Is Lenny (2017)
The life story of one of Britain's most notorious bare-knuckle fighters, Lenny McLean, also known as "The Guv'nor".
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Green Street 3: Never Back Down (2013)
An old firm leader returns to Green Street for revenge after receiving a call that his little brother was killed, but is he able to cope with a new type of hooliganism and can he find his killer?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisClash (2016)
In 2013, in Cairo, a tragic fate brings together several detainees from different political and social backgrounds inside a police truck, during the turmoil that followed the ousting of president Morsi.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKilling Kennedy (2013)
Killing Kennedy follows the parallel lives of John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald from the winter 1959-1960 to those fatal days in Dallas in November 1963, when they both died within two days after each other and were buried on the same day - John F. Kennedy in a state funeral in Washington D.C., broadcast live both to Europe and the Pacific, while Oswald was buried in Forth Worth at a small funeral where the attending reporters were asked to act as pallbearers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMaze (2017)
Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Road to Guantanamo?
The closest matches to The Road to Guantanamo are Five Minarets in New York (2010), In This World (2003) and Omagh (2005). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Road to Guantanamo?
People who watched The Road to Guantanamo most often go on to Five Minarets in New York (2010), In This World (2003) and Omagh (2005).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Road to Guantanamo?
The Good Lie (2014), rated 7.5/10 by 637 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Road to Guantanamo?
Danny Boy (2021) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Road to Guantanamo?
Yes: Five Minarets in New York (2010), In This World (2003) and Omagh (2005).
How are movies similar to The Road to Guantanamo chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Road to Guantanamo, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.