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Movies Like Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

If you liked Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984), a adventure and drama movie directed by Hugh Hudson, 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. 1The Legend of Tarzan

    The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10Also adventure

    Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.

  2. 2King Kong

    King Kong (2005)

    ★ 6.9/10Also adventure and drama

    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.

  3. 3Tarzan and His Mate

    Tarzan and His Mate (1934)

    ★ 6.6/10Also adventure

    Harry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.

  4. 4Beneath the Planet of the Apes

    Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

    ★ 6.1/10Also adventure

    The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission lands on the planet of the apes, and uncovers a horrible secret beneath the surface.

  5. 5When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

    When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)

    ★ 6.2/10Also adventure

    An ancient tribe attempts to sacrifice Sanna as an offering to the Sun god to save their tribe from dinosaurs. Tara, a young man from another tribe, saves Sanna and takes her along with him.

  6. 6White Hunter, Black Heart

    White Hunter, Black Heart (1990)

    ★ 6.4/10Also adventure and drama

    Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hunt elephants and other game, to the dismay of his cast and crew. He eventually becomes obsessed with hunting down and…

  7. 7Hereafter

    Hereafter (2010)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.

  8. 8Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

    Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

    ★ 6.8/10Also adventure

    A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.

  9. 9The Lost World

    The Lost World (2001)

    ★ 6.2/10Also adventure

    This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a bully than Doyle's character, but his…

  10. 10Planet of the Apes

    Planet of the Apes (1968)

    ★ 7.7/10Also adventure and drama

    Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent…

  11. 11Black Panther

    Black Panther (2018)

    ★ 7.4/10Also adventure

    King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within…

  12. 12The Perfect Storm

    The Perfect Storm (2000)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and adventure

    In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail.

  13. 13Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

    Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)

    ★ 6.5/10Also adventure and drama

    A human child raised by wolves, must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well as his own origins.

  14. 14The Golden Compass

    The Golden Compass (2007)

    ★ 6.1/10Also adventure

    In a parallel universe, after overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware…

  15. 15The Edge

    The Edge (1997)

    ★ 6.9/10Also adventure and drama

    The plane carrying wealthy Charles Morse crashes down in the Alaskan wilderness. Together with the two other passengers, photographer Robert and assistant Stephen, Charles devises a plan to help them reach…

  16. 16Willow

    Willow (1988)

    ★ 7/10Also adventure

    The evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the royal infant is found by Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, he's entrusted with…

  17. 17Lord of the Flies

    Lord of the Flies (1963)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and adventure

    Following a plane crash a group of schoolboys find themselves on a deserted island. They appoint a leader and attempt to create an organized society for the sake of their survival. Democracy and order soon begin to…

  18. 18The Postman

    The Postman (1997)

    ★ 6.3/10Also adventure and drama

    In 2013, there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the United States. Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a…

  19. 19Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

    Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

    ★ 7.3/10Also adventure

    After losing Captain Jack Sparrow to the locker of Davy Jones, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, and Captain Barbossa journey to the ends of the earth to rescue him. And as the East India Trading Company tightens its grip…

  20. 20Poseidon

    Poseidon (2006)

    ★ 5.9/10Also adventure

    A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives.

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