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Movies Like The Fatal Fortune

If you liked The Fatal Fortune (1919), a action and adventure movie directed by Donald MacKenzie and Frank Wunderlee, 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.

  1. 1Sahara

    Sahara (1983)

    ★ 5.9/10Also action and adventure

    Intent on winning a competition in place of her distinguished late father, beautiful young heiress Dale takes on the guise of a man and competes in his spot, embarking on a car race that crosses the unforgiving Sahara…

  2. 2True Spirit

    True Spirit (2023)

    ★ 7/10Also adventure

    When the tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson sets out to be the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world, many expect her to fail. With the support of her sailing coach and mentor Ben…

  3. 3Iron Will

    Iron Will (1994)

    ★ 6.7/10Also adventure and action

    When Will Stoneman's father dies, he is left alone to take care of his mother and their land. Needing money to maintain it, he decides to join a cross country dogsled race. This race will require days of racing for…

  4. 4True Grit

    True Grit (1969)

    ★ 7.3/10Also adventure

    The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of…

  5. 5The Black Pirate

    The Black Pirate (1926)

    ★ 6.7/10Also adventure and action

    A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrates the pirate band; Acting in character, he single-handedly captures a merchant vessel, but things are complicated…

  6. 6Airborne

    Airborne (1993)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action and adventure

    Good-natured teen surfer Mitchell Goosen finds himself staying with his aunt and uncle in Cincinnati, Ohio when his parents head to Australia for work. There he meets his cousin, Wiley, and together they try to…

  7. 7Hellfighters

    Hellfighters (1968)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action and adventure

    The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.

  8. 8Double Threat

    Double Threat (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also action and adventure

    With ruthless mobsters on her tail, a young woman with a split personality becomes entangled with a man on a pilgrimage across the country to scatter his brother's ashes.

  9. 9Sketch

    Sketch (2025)

    ★ 7/10Also adventure

    When a young girl’s sketchbook falls into a strange pond, her drawings come to life—chaotic, real, and on the loose. As the town descends into chaos, her family must reunite and stop the monsters they never meant to…

  10. 10The Count of Monte-Cristo

    The Count of Monte-Cristo (1975)

    ★ 6.8/10Also adventure

    Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.

  11. 11Scaramouche

    Scaramouche (1952)

    ★ 7/10Also adventure

    In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.

  12. 12Tarzan's Secret Treasure

    Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941)

    ★ 5.9/10Also action and adventure

    A scientific expedition happens to discover that gold exists on Tarzan's escarpment. The villainous Medford and Vandermeer kidnap Jane and Boy to extort from Tarzan the location of the gold.

  13. 13Treasure Island

    Treasure Island (1972)

    ★ 5.9/10Also adventure

    Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer's treasure, in this short adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale.

  14. 14Momo

    Momo (2025)

    ★ 7.1/10Also adventure

    Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time…

  15. 15The Pagemaster

    The Pagemaster (1994)

    ★ 6.4/10Also adventure

    Rich knows a lot about accidents. So much so, he is scared to do anything that might endanger him, like riding his bike, or climbing into his treehouse. While in an old library, he is mystically transported into the…

  16. 16Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

    Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)

    ★ 6.2/10Also adventure and action

    Sean Anderson partners with his mom's boyfriend on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.

  17. 17Anastasia: Once Upon a Time

    Anastasia: Once Upon a Time (2020)

    ★ 5.9/10Also adventure

    Anastasia Romanov escapes through a portal when her family is threatened by Vladimir Lenin, and she finds herself in the year 1988, befriended by a young American girl.

  18. 18Treasure Island

    Treasure Island (1934)

    ★ 6.6/10Also adventure

    In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain Flint's buried treasure.

  19. 19Secret of the Incas

    Secret of the Incas (1954)

    ★ 5.9/10Also action and adventure

    Harry Steele (Charlton Heston) is a tourist guide determined to make his fortune by finding the Sunburst, an Inca treasure.

  20. 20Atlantis Rising

    Atlantis Rising (2017)

    ★ 6.4/10Also adventure

    James Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici go on an adventure to find the lost city of Atlantis by using Greek philosopher Plato as a virtual treasure map.

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