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Movies that feel like The King (2019)

If you loved The King, the closest films we have are 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), Napoleon (2023) and The Shadow in My Eye (2021). All three share The King's contemplative and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV and others, checked against today's data.

England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forced by circumstances to reluctantly accept the throne and become Henry V.

🍅 71% Rotten Tomatoes7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David Michôdcontemplativeepicbleak
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The King of Comedy (1982) · The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)

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🍅 52%7.3war · history · drama

The same two preoccupations: biography, and a true story

An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

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Napoleon
2023 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 58%6.3history · war · drama

The same preoccupation in both: biography

An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.

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The Shadow in My Eye
2021 · dir. Ole Bornedal
7.3war · drama · history

Both are built on the same subject: a true story

On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 of whom were children.

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The Monuments Men
2014 · dir. George Clooney
🍅 30%6.1war · drama · history

Contemplative where it counts, epic underneath

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?

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The Flowers of War
2011 · dir. Zhang Yimou
🍅 41%7.5drama · history · war

Bleak drama, and it commits to that

A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.

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The Captain
2018 · dir. Robert Schwentke
🍅 83%7.3war · drama · history

History with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of a Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he has stolen only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whoever he is.

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T-34
2018 · dir. Alexey Sidorov
6.8drama · history · war

Both lean on scale more than on war

In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers managed to escape from German captivity in a half-destroyed legendary T-34 tank. Those were the times of unforgettable bravery, fierce fighting, unbreakable love, and legendary miracles.

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Kalashnikov AK-47
2020 · dir. Konstantin Buslov
6.6war · history · drama

Drama built on bleakness, twice over

A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital, he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47. Shot in occupied Crimea.

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

Contemplative history in both cases

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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The Champion
2021 · dir. Maciej Barczewski
6.7drama · history · war

Same instincts, 2 years apart

It is 1940. The first transport of prisoners arrives at the newly created concentration camp Auschwitz. One of them is Tadeusz “Teddy” Pietrzykowski, pre-war boxing champion of Warsaw. The camp officers force him to fight in the ring for his and other prisoners’ lives. However, his every win strengthens the hope that Nazis are not invincible. Auschwitz officers notice the growing resistance. The confrontation with the authorities of the camp becomes inevitable.

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Land of Mine
2015 · dir. Martin Zandvliet
🍅 91%7.8war · drama · history

From the 2010s, and it lands the same way

In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent to the West Coast, where they are ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys are forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of a Danish sergeant.

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War Horse
2011 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 74%7.2war · history · drama

Both are history through and through

On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.

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