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Movies that feel like Eastern Condors (1987)

If you loved Eastern Condors, the closest films we have are 300 (2007), Troy (2004) and Black Hawk Down (2001). All three share Eastern Condors's kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus and MGM Plus and others, checked against today's data.

A motley group of Chinese prisoners held in the US is sent on a covert mission with the promise of a pardon: to go deep into Vietnam and destroy a secret depot of missiles that the US left behind during the pull-out.

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300
2007 · dir. Zack Snyder
🍅 61%7.6action · adventure · war

Kinetic and epic in the same breath

The difference: A 2000s film, from a different era of filmmaking

A story very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians.

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Troy
2004 · dir. Wolfgang Petersen
🍅 53%7.3war · action · history

Bleak action in both cases

The difference: Plays it as history more than Eastern Condors does

In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. They set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy.

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Black Hawk Down
2001 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 77%7.7action · war · history

War built on momentum, twice over

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.

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Rambo: First Blood Part II
1985 · dir. George P. Cosmatos
🍅 33%6.5action · adventure · thriller

Vietnam sits at the heart of each

John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.

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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1984 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 77%7.5adventure · action

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The difference: Not nearly as bleak as Eastern Condors

After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.

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Kingdom of Heaven
2005 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 39%7.3drama · action · adventure

Both trade on bleakness more than on being action

After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.

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The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
1978 · dir. Lau Kar-leung
🍅 83%7.6action · adventure

The same preoccupation in both: martial arts

During the Qing Dynasty, a fishmonger is killed by the reigning Manchu government for supporting the anti-government movement; his son manages to escape to Shaolin Temple, where he plans to learn its secretive brand of martial arts to seek revenge.

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 84%8.2adventure · action

Kinetic adventure, and it commits to that

In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it, and the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry Jones Sr.. He sets out to rescue his father by following clues in the old man's notebook, which his father had mailed to him before he went missing. Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, Dr. Elsa Schneider, along with Marcus Brody and Sallah. Together they must stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life and taking over the world!

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Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 94%8.4adventure · action

Both trade on scale more than on being war

When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.

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Pacific Rim
2013 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 72%6.9action · science fiction · adventure

Action with a pulse of bleakness, in both cases

Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, earth's survivors take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless enemy, the forces of mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes who now stand as earth's final hope against the mounting apocalypse.

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TRON: Legacy
2010 · dir. Joseph Kosinski
🍅 51%6.8adventure · action · science fiction

Action approached the same way

Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy and daring son of Kevin Flynn, investigates his father's disappearance and is pulled into The Grid. With the help of a mysterious program named Quorra, Sam quests to stop evil dictator Clu from crossing into the real world.

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Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
2015 · dir. Christopher McQuarrie
🍅 94%7.4action · adventure

Both keep circling back to mission

Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organization committed to destroying the IMF.

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