Movies Like King Kong

If you liked King Kong (2005), a adventure and drama movie directed by Peter Jackson, 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
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
★ 6.4/10Also adventure and drama
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and…
2
Godzilla (2014)
★ 6.4/10Also action and drama
Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when an ancient…
3
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
★ 7/10Also action and adventure
Following their explosive showdown, Godzilla and Kong must reunite against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence – and our own.
4
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also action and adventure
Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.
5
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
★ 7.5/10Also action and adventure
In a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerful forces of nature on the planet collide in a spectacular battle…
6
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
★ 7/10Also adventure and action
Several generations following Caesar's reign, apes – now the dominant species – live harmoniously while humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape…
7
Okja (2017)
★ 7.3/10Also adventure and drama
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
8
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…
9
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…
10
The Edge (1997)
★ 6.9/10Also action and adventure
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…
11
The Time Machine (2002)
★ 6.4/10Also adventure and action
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
12
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
★ 5.9/10Also action and adventure
The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive…
13
The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also action and 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.
14
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.
15
Rampage (2018)
★ 6.5/10Also action and adventure
Primatologist Davis Okoye shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle…
16
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
★ 7.3/10Also adventure and action
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…
17
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
★ 7.3/10Also action and drama
A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.
18
The Darkest Minds (2018)
★ 7/10Also action and adventure
After a disease kills 98% of America's children, the surviving 2% develop superpowers and are placed in internment camps. A 16-year-old girl escapes her camp and joins a group of other teens on the run from the…
19
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and action
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.
20
The Avengers (2012)
★ 8.1/10Also action and adventure
When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from…