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Movies that feel like A Knight's Tale (2001)

If you loved A Knight's Tale, the closest films we have are Arn: The Knight Templar (2007), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Jodhaa Akbar (2008). All three share A Knight's Tale's epic and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself, William won't stop until he's crowned tournament champion—assuming matters of the heart don't get in the way.

🍅 60% Rotten Tomatoes7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Brian Helgelandepiccontemplativeromantictenderkinetic
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Arn: The Knight Templar
2007 · dir. Peter Flinth
6.6action · adventure · drama

Both land scale and stillness at once

Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2000 · dir. Ang Lee
🍅 96%7.9adventure · drama · action

Both keep coming back to the same thing: sword fight

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.

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Jodhaa Akbar
2008 · dir. Ashutosh Gowariker
🍅 80%7.5romance · history · drama

The same preoccupation in both: sword fight

The difference: Not nearly as kinetic as A Knight's Tale

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a Mughal emperor and a Rajput princess.

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Pompeii
2014 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 27%5.5action · adventure · history

Romantic where it counts, tender underneath

The difference: Leans harder into history than A Knight's Tale does

In 79 A.D., Milo, a slave turned gladiator, finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him.

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Alexander
2004 · dir. Oliver Stone
🍅 15%5.6war · history · action

Adventure built on momentum, twice over

Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.

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The Bodyguard
1992 · dir. Mick Jackson
🍅 38%6.4action · drama · romance

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened by a crazed fan. At first, the safety-obsessed bodyguard and the self-indulgent diva totally clash. But before long, all that tension sparks fireworks of another sort, and the love-averse tough guy is torn between duty and romance.

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One Day
2011 · dir. Lone Scherfig
🍅 36%7drama · romance

Common ground: writer

After spending the night together on the eve of their college graduation, Dexter and Emma are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, and sometimes not.

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A Royal Affair
2012 · dir. Nikolaj Arcel
🍅 90%7.5drama · history · romance

Both lean on scale more than on romance

A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.

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Bajirao Mastani
2015 · dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
🍅 67%7.3history · romance · drama

Romantic action, and it commits to that

Peshwa Bajirao married to Kashibai, falls in love with Mastani, a warrior princess in distress. They struggle to make their love triumph amid opposition from his conservative family.

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Brooklyn
2015 · dir. John Crowley
🍅 97%7.5drama · history · romance

Tender drama in both cases

In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.

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Sense and Sensibility
1995 · dir. Ang Lee
🍅 97%7.7drama · romance

Both rooted in London

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, learn that their prospects of marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. After Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son. These circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's wife and daughters without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.

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The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938 · dir. Michael Curtiz
🍅 100%7.9adventure · romance · action

Adventure with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

The difference: 63 years apart, and the 1930s show

Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.

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