Movies Like Saturday Island
If you liked Saturday Island (1952), a adventure and war movie directed by Stuart Heisler, 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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To Have and Have Not (1945)
★ 7.4/10Also adventure and romanceA Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
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Adrift (2018)
★ 6.8/10Also romance and adventureTami Oldham and Richard Sharp couldn't anticipate that they would be sailing directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. In the aftermath of the storm, Tami awakens to find Richard badly…
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Against the Sun (2014)
★ 7/10Also war and adventureA WWII pilot, bombardier, and radioman find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane during a scouting mission.
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Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
★ 7/10Also adventure and warCaptain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.
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The Alamo (1960)
★ 7.1/10Also war and adventureThe legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
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Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)
★ 6.4/10Also adventure and romanceA group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.
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The World in His Arms (1952)
★ 6.6/10Also adventure and romanceA boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russians… if they don’t kill him first.
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King Solomon's Mines (1950)
★ 6.5/10Also adventure and romanceFortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing husband lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.
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Stardust (2007)
★ 7.3/10Also adventure and romanceIn a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. His journey takes him into a world beyond his wildest…
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The Pride and the Passion (1957)
★ 6/10Also war and romanceDuring the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to…
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Prince Charming (2001)
★ 6.9/10Also adventure and romanceAfter an extramarital indiscretion, a fairy-tale prince and his sidekick are turned into frogs for all eternity or until the prince can convince a maiden to kiss and then marry him.
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Hornblower: Mutiny (2001)
★ 7.4/10Also war and adventureHornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but mentally unstable captain and are forced to mutiny in order to save their ship, the HMS Renown.
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Australia (2008)
★ 6.6/10Also adventure and romanceSet in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000…
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Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters (1999)
★ 7.2/10Also war and adventureLieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
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Angel and the Badman (1947)
★ 6.4/10Also romance and adventureA wounded outlaw finds unexpected mercy in the care of a rancher's daughter. The hope of love pulls him toward a different life until the law, and his violent past, close in on his new home. Now he must choose the kind…
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Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
★ 6.8/10Also adventure and romanceSpanish Lothario Don Juan, the legendary lover and adventurer returns to Spain following a scandal and comes to the aid of his queen, who is under threat from sinister forces.
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
★ 8/10Also adventure and warDuring World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.
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Where Eagles Dare (1968)
★ 7.5/10Also adventure and warWorld War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to…
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Khartoum (1966)
★ 6.4/10Also war and adventureEnglish General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who…
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Robin and Marian (1976)
★ 6.3/10Also adventure and romanceRobin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.