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Movies Like Giovanni de Medici: The Leader

If you liked Giovanni de Medici: The Leader (1937), a adventure and war movie directed by Werner Klingler and Luis Trenker, 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. 1Shout at the Devil

    Shout at the Devil (1976)

    ★ 6/10Also adventure and war

    During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar…

  2. 2Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

    Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)

    ★ 7/10Also adventure and war

    Captain 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.

  3. 3The Guns of Navarone

    The Guns of Navarone (1961)

    ★ 7.3/10Also adventure and war

    A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

  4. 4The Dirty Dozen

    The Dirty Dozen (1967)

    ★ 7.6/10Also adventure and war

    12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of…

  5. 5Force 10 from Navarone

    Force 10 from Navarone (1978)

    ★ 6.3/10Also adventure and war

    World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.

  6. 6300

    300 (2007)

    ★ 7.2/10Also adventure and war

    A story very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians.

  7. 7Walking with the Enemy

    Walking with the Enemy (2014)

    ★ 6.3/10Also history and war

    Regent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent…

  8. 8The Last Four Days

    The Last Four Days (1974)

    ★ 6.3/10Also war and history

    In 1945, the dictator of fascist Italy and Hitler's close ally Benito Mussolini faces defeat. In a desperate attempt to avoid capture, he tries to flee the country with his lover Claretta Petacci, but Italian partisans…

  9. 9The Man in the Iron Mask

    The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)

    ★ 7/10Also adventure and history

    Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his…

  10. 10King Arthur

    King Arthur (2004)

    ★ 6.3/10Also adventure and war

    The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and that the Roman-British…

  11. 11The Eagle Has Landed

    The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

    ★ 6.7/10Also adventure and war

    When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for…

  12. 12Against the Sun

    Against the Sun (2014)

    ★ 7/10Also war and adventure

    A 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.

  13. 13Pork Chop Hill

    Pork Chop Hill (1959)

    ★ 6.7/10Also history and war

    Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry, is ordered to recapture Pork Chop Hill, occupied by a powerful Chinese Army force, while, just seventy miles away…

  14. 14The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

    ★ 7.8/10Also war and history

    When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware…

  15. 15The Great Raid

    The Great Raid (2005)

    ★ 6.6/10Also history and war

    As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.

  16. 16Distant Drums

    Distant Drums (1951)

    ★ 6.3/10Also adventure and war

    After destroying a Seminole fort, American soldiers and their rescued companions must face the dangerous Everglades and hostile Indians in order to reach safety

  17. 17H.M.S. Defiant

    H.M.S. Defiant (1962)

    ★ 6.6/10Also adventure and history

    Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the…

  18. 18Gunga Din

    Gunga Din (1939)

    ★ 6.5/10Also adventure and war

    British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of…

  19. 19Kings of the Sun

    Kings of the Sun (1963)

    ★ 6.2/10Also history and adventure

    In order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of what will become the United States. They build a home in the new land but come into…

  20. 20Empire of the Sun

    Empire of the Sun (1987)

    ★ 7.5/10Also history and war

    Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the…

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