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Movies that feel like King Arthur (2004)

If you loved King Arthur, the closest films we have are Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (2007), Red Cliff (2008) and Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004). All three share King Arthur's epic and bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 3 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Criterion Channel and MGM Plus and others, checked against today's data.

The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and that the Roman-British military commander, Lucius Artorius Castus is the historical person behind the legend.

🍅 30% Rotten Tomatoes6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Antoine Fuquaepicbleakkineticcontemplative

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)

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Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
2007 · dir. Sergei Bodrov
🍅 86%7.2history · war · action

The same preoccupation in both: battle

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan, a slave who went on to conquer half the world in the 11th century.

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Red Cliff
2008 · dir. John Woo
🍅 89%7.3adventure · drama · history

Epic and bleak in the same breath

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military campaign of unprecedented scale. Left with no other hope for survival, the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu formed an unlikely alliance.

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Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
2004 · dir. Kang Je-kyu
🍅 79%8action · adventure · drama

Kinetic where it counts, contemplative underneath

When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.

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Eastern Condors
1987 · dir. Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
7.1action · adventure · war

Both keep coming back to the same thing: battle

The difference: Missing the stillness of King Arthur

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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Red Cliff II
2009 · dir. John Woo
7.5action · adventure · drama

Epic adventure, and it commits to that

The battle of Red Cliff continues and the alliance between Xu and East Wu is fracturing. With Cao Cao's massive forces on their doorstep, will the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu survive?

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

War with a pulse of bleakness, in both cases

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 Darkest Minds
2018 · dir. Jennifer Yuh Nelson
🍅 15%5.7action · adventure · drama

Kinetic action in both cases

After a disease kills 98% of America's children, the surviving 2% develop superpowers and are placed in internment camps. A 16-year-old girl escapes her camp and joins a group of other teens on the run from the government.

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9th Company
2005 · dir. Fyodor Bondarchuk
🍅 69%7.1war · drama · history

Both lean on stillness more than on history

Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late 1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.

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Katyn
2007 · dir. Andrzej Wajda
🍅 91%7drama · history · war

Drama built on scale, twice over

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.

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12 Strong
2018 · dir. Nicolai Fuglsig
🍅 50%6.5war · action · history

Bleak war in both cases

A team of special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.

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Flame & Citron
2008 · dir. Ole Christian Madsen
🍅 86%7.2drama · history · war

Contemplative history in both cases

Gunman Flame and his partner Citron assassinate Nazi collaborators for the Danish resistance. Assigned targets by their Allies-connected leader, Aksel Winther, they relish the opportunity to begin targeting the Nazis themselves. When they begin to doubt the validity of their assignments, their morally complicated task becomes even more labyrinthine.

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Enemy at the Gates
2001 · dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
🍅 53%7.5war · history

Cut from the same war cloth

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

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