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Movies that feel likePirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

When wily pirate Captain Barbossa seizes Jack Sparrow’s beloved ship, the Black Pearl, and kidnaps the governor’s daughter, Elizabeth Swann, blacksmith Will Turner reluctantly teams up with the unpredictable pirate Jack to rescue her—only to uncover a terrifying curse that turns Barbossa’s crew into the undead.

If you loved Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the closest films we have are Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop (2004), Straight Outta Compton (2015) and Amadeus (1984). All three share Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl's epic and stylish feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2006).

🍅 79% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Gore Verbinskikineticwittyepicstylish
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) · Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) · Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) · Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)

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Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop
2004 · dir. Walter Carvalho
★ 6.9drama · music · history

Both land scale and style at once

The difference: Goes its own way on the momentum

Inspired by the moving book “Só as Mães São Felizes”, by Lucinha Araújo, Cazuza's mother, the film covers a little more than 10 years of the singer’s crazy and brief life – from the beginning of his career in the Circo Voador venue, in 1981, to the huge success and the apotheosis of his shows with the Barão Vermelho band, his solo career, his relations with his parents, friends, lovers and passions, and the courage he had to face his final years, with HIV, until his death, in 1990.

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Straight Outta Compton
2015 · dir. F. Gary Gray
🍅 89%★ 7.8drama · music · historyNetflixStarz

Epic adventure in both cases

The difference: Less kinetic, more its own thing

In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today.

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Amadeus
1984 · dir. Miloš Forman
🍅 90%★ 8.4drama · history · music

Fantasy built on style, twice over

The difference: Played as drama first

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburger composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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The Legend of 1900
1998 · dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
🍅 58%★ 8drama · music

Common ground: ship

Musician Max Tooney goes to sell his prized Conn trumpet to a music shop, where he plays the instrument one last time. The shopkeeper recognises the song as one on a record matrix he found and asks who the piece is by. Tooney tells the story of an infant found abandoned in the first class dining room of the four-stacker ocean-liner SS Virginian on 1 January 1900. Danny Boodman, a coal-man from the boiler room, names the boy Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900, after himself, the fruit crate the boy was found in, and the year, and raises him as his own.

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Troy
2004 · dir. Wolfgang Petersen
🍅 53%★ 7.3action · adventureApple TV+Paramount+

Both lean on momentum more than on action

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1984 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 77%★ 7.5adventure · actionPrime VideoDisney+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: skeleton

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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The Lone Ranger
2013 · dir. Gore Verbinski
🍅 31%★ 6.4action · adventure · western

The same hand behind both of them: Gore Verbinski

The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. The Ranger, donning a mask and riding a white stallion named Silver, teams up with Tonto to bring the unscrupulous gang and others of that ilk to justice.

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The Devil and Daniel Johnston
2006 · dir. Jeff Feuerzeig
🍅 88%★ 7.9documentary · music

Stylish adventure, and it commits to that

This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his mental illness and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession.

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

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

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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8 Mile
2002 · dir. Curtis Hanson
🍅 76%★ 7.2drama · musicNetflixStarz

Contemporaries, and it shows

For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an extraordinary personal struggle to find his own voice - and earn a place in a world where rhymes rule, legends are born and every moment… is another chance.

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King Kong
2005 · dir. Peter Jackson
🍅 84%★ 7.2adventure · drama · actionNetflix

One thread runs through both: exotic island

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.

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The Avengers
2012 · dir. Joss Whedon
🍅 91%★ 8science fiction · action · adventureHuluDisney+

Fantasy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins!

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