Movies Like Hornblower: The Even Chance

If you liked Hornblower: The Even Chance (1998), a war and adventure movie directed by Andrew Grieve, 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
H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
★ 6.6/10Also adventure and war
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…
2
Hornblower: Mutiny (2001)
★ 7.4/10Also war and adventure
Hornblower 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.
3
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
★ 7.2/10Also adventure and war
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh…
4
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters (1999)
★ 7.2/10Also war and adventure
Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
5
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.
6
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.
7
Sharpe's Rifles (1993)
★ 6.8/10Also war and adventure
Portugal, 1809. Fast moving, hard-hitting action adventure filmed on location in the Crimea, Portugal and England brings to the screen all the danger, romance and sheer spectacle of one of the bloodiest periods in…
8
Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant (1998)
★ 7.5/10Also war and adventure
Acting Lieutenant Hornblower attempts to study for his promotion examination, but becomes distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew.
9
Britannic (2000)
★ 6.8/10Also tv movie and war
It was the sister ship of the infamous Titanic... and its final destiny was the same. Experience the true untold story of Britannic, a tumultuous, epic voyage of human passion, courage and betrayal aboard an ill-fated…
10
Hornblower: Loyalty (2003)
★ 7.3/10Also war and adventure
Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.
11
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
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…
13
Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil (1999)
★ 7.2/10Also war and adventure
Acting Lieutenant Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own.
14
Treasure Island (1990)
★ 6.7/10Also adventure and tv movie
Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and…
15
The Buccaneer (1958)
★ 6.5/10Also adventure and war
During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60 ships and 16,000 men to take the city. In this…
16
Uprising (2001)
★ 6.6/10Also war and tv movie
In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
17
Zulu Dawn (1979)
★ 6.1/10Also adventure and war
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
18
Hornblower: Retribution (2001)
★ 7.4/10Also war and adventure
Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving their unstable captain.
19
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
★ 8/10Also adventure and war
During 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.
20
To Have and Have Not (1945)
★ 7.4/10Also adventure and war
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.