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Movies that feel like The Woman King (2022)

If you loved The Woman King, the closest films we have are Napoleon (2023), The Darkest Minds (2018) and 12 Strong (2018). All three share The Woman King's epic and bleak 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.

The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life.

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Gina Prince-Bythewoodkineticcontemplativeepicbleak
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Napoleon
2023 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 58%6.3history · war · drama

Both are working the same pair: a true story, 19th century

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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

Kinetic where it counts, contemplative underneath

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than The Woman King does

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

The same preoccupation in both: a true story

The difference: Missing the stillness of The Woman King

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

Epic and bleak in the same breath

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

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

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

Contemplative drama in both cases

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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The Zone of Interest
2023 · dir. Jonathan Glazer
🍅 93%7.3drama · history · war

History built on scale, twice over

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

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Midway
2019 · dir. Roland Emmerich
🍅 42%6.7war · history · drama

Bleak war, and it commits to that

The story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome massive odds.

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Uri: The Surgical Strike
2019 · dir. Aditya Dhar
🍅 57%8.2action · drama · war

Both lean on momentum more than on action

Following the roguish terrorist attacks at Uri Army Base camp in Kashmir, India takes the fight to the enemy, in its most successful covert operation till date with one and only one objective of avenging their fallen heroes.

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The Champion
2021 · dir. Maciej Barczewski
6.8drama · history · war

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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Greyhound
2020 · dir. Aaron Schneider
🍅 77%7war · action · drama

War with a pulse of bleakness, in both cases

A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines of WWII. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.

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

Same instincts, 2 years apart

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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