Movies Like Two-Fisted Tales
If you liked Two-Fisted Tales (1992), a war and tv movie movie directed by Richard Donner and Tom Holland, 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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The Lost Battalion (2001)
★ 6.7/10Also war and tv movieFact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I.
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The Alamo (1960)
★ 7.1/10Also war and westernThe 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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The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
★ 7.1/10Also tv movie and warFr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him…
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The Horse Soldiers (1959)
★ 6.9/10Also western and warA Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the…
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also western and tv movieBeginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of…
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Ride with the Devil (1999)
★ 6.3/10Also war and westernFriends Jake and Jack Bull join up with Civil War guerrilla fighters, yet after the realities of war set in, they must decide what honor truly means.
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They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
★ 6.7/10Also western and warThe story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in…
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The Pentagon Wars (1998)
★ 6.9/10Also war and tv movieFrom the director of “Made In America” and “The Money Pit” comes a hilarious look at one of the most expensive blunders in military history. Over 17 years and almost as many billion dollars have gone into devising the…
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100 Rifles (1969)
★ 5.9/10Also western and warWhen half-breed Indian Yaqui Joe robs an Arizona bank, he is pursued by dogged lawman Lyedecker. Fleeing to Mexico, Joe is imprisoned by General Verdugo, who is waging a war against the Yaqui Indians. When Lyedecker…
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Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters (1999)
★ 7.2/10Also war and tv movieLieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
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Major Dundee (1965)
★ 6.7/10Also western and warDuring the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been…
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Purgatory (1999)
★ 7.2/10Also western and tv movieAn outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and the peaceful inhabitants are all famous dead outlaws and criminals…
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Legends of the Fall (1994)
★ 7.4/10Also western and warIn early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by…
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Love's Enduring Promise (2004)
★ 6.8/10Also western and tv movieIn the 1800s frontier, Missie Davis is a bright and beautiful schoolteacher whose love for the prairie is matched only by her passion for books. When Missie encounters Grant, a handsome New England railroad executive…
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Britannic (2000)
★ 6.8/10Also tv movie and warIt 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…
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Hornblower: Mutiny (2001)
★ 7.4/10Also war and tv movieHornblower 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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Shenandoah (1965)
★ 7/10Also western and warCharlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North, the Civil War is forced…
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Bonanza: The Return (1993)
★ 6.5/10Also western and tv movieA man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to take over the Ponderosa.
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Taking Chance (2009)
★ 7.2/10Also war and tv movieLt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort accompanies the body of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps to his hometown in Wyoming.
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Love's Long Journey (2005)
★ 7/10Also western and tv movieMissie's surprise pregnancy sets her on a new course that is both thrilling and terrifying. After all the planning and dreaming, she and her husband Willie are headed west in a covered wagon, leaving behind the prairie…