Movies Like The Return of Chandu
If you liked The Return of Chandu (1934), a action and fantasy movie directed by Ray Taylor, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Mythica: A Quest for Heroes (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also action and adventureStuck in a life of indentured servitude, Marek dreams of becoming a wizard. When she meets the beautiful priestess Teela in need of help, she offers her assistance and provides a motley troupe. Together they go in…
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Angels Fallen: Warriors of Peace (2024)
★ 5.9/10Also action and adventureWhen an Iraq War veteran receives a calling from a higher power, he embarks on a mission to stop a fallen angel from raising an army of the dead to take over the world.
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A Knight's War (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and actionA fearless knight braves a deadly realm to save the Chosen One’s soul. Facing witches, demons, and brutal foes, he discovers her return could ignite chaos and doom humanity.
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasy and adventureBalthazar Blake is a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan trying to defend the city from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath. Balthazar can't do it alone, so he recruits Dave Stutler, a seemingly average guy who…
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Basilisk: The Serpent King (2006)
★ 6.2/10Also action and horrorTwo millennia ago, a Lybian king has a basilisk (snake-shaped dragon), which petrifies people, subjected to the same fate with a golden scepter during a solar eclipse. Both these and several victims are dug up by…
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Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie (2018)
★ 7.7/10Also fantasy and horrorA decade after a tragic mistake, family man Chas Chandler and occult detective John Constantine set out to cure his daughter Trish from a mysterious supernatural coma.
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In the Lost Lands (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also action and adventureA queen sends the powerful and feared sorceress Gray Alys to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands in search of a magical power, where she and her guide, the drifter Boyce, must outwit and outfight both man and demon.
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The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf (2021)
★ 7.4/10Also action and fantasyEscaping from poverty to become a witcher, Vesemir slays monsters for coin and glory, but when a new menace rises, he must face the demons of his past.
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Abigail (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also adventure and fantasyA young girl Abigail lives in a city whose borders were closed many years ago because of an epidemic of a mysterious disease. Abby's father was one of the sick - and he was taken when she was six years old. Going…
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Descendants 2 (2017)
★ 7.4/10Also fantasy and adventureWhen the pressure to be royal becomes too much for Mal, she returns to the Isle of the Lost where her archenemy Uma, Ursula's daughter, has taken her spot as self-proclaimed queen.
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The Spine of Night (2021)
★ 6/10Also fantasy and actionWhen ancient dark magic falls into sinister hands and unleashes ages of suffering onto mankind, a group of heroes from different eras and cultures must band together in order to defeat it at all costs.
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God Is a Bullet (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also action and horrorVice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the…
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Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)
★ 5.9/10Also adventure and fantasyWhen Darren Shan is taken to a circus that's chock-full of sideshow oddities, he meets a vampire and receives a life-changing bite on the neck.
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Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and adventureOscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save Oz from the clutches of evil.
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Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also fantasy and actionExplorer Bruce Wayne accidentally unleashes an ancient evil, and returns to Gotham after being away for two decades. There, Batman battles Lovecraftian supernatural forces and encounters allies and enemies such as…
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Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)
★ 7.1/10Also action and adventureThe sailor of legend is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace, and must travel to her realm at the end of the world to retrieve it and save the life of his childhood friend Prince Proteus.
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The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
★ 7/10Also action and adventureWhen the lovely Princess Parisa is shrunken by wicked Sokurah the Magician, Sinbad must embark on a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war.
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The Unhealer (2021)
★ 5.8/10Also fantasy and horrorA botched faith healing bestows supernatural Shaman powers on a bullied teenager. When his lifelong tormentors pull a prank that kills someone he loves, he uses his powers for revenge and goes on a bloody rampage to…
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also fantasy and adventureA sudden attack by Wulf, a clever and traitorous lord of Rohan seeking vengeance for the death of his father, forces Helm Hammerhand, the King of Rohan, and his people to make a daring last stand in the ancient…
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Deathstalker (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and actionA powerful swordsman known as Deathstalker recovers a cursed amulet from a corpse-strewn battlefield. Marked by dark magic and hunted by monstrous assassins, he must face the rising evil and break the curse.