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Movies Like The Rose and the Jackal

If you liked The Rose and the Jackal (1990), a adventure and tv movie movie directed by Jack Gold, 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. 1True Grit

    True Grit (1969)

    ★ 7.3/10Also western and adventure

    The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of…

  2. 2Vera Cruz

    Vera Cruz (1954)

    ★ 6.7/10Also western and adventure

    After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin and his men, and together they are…

  3. 3The Alamo

    The Alamo (1960)

    ★ 7.1/10Also adventure and western

    The 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.

  4. 4Maverick

    Maverick (1994)

    ★ 6.9/10Also adventure and western

    Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a woman with a…

  5. 5The Tall Men

    The Tall Men (1955)

    ★ 6.4/10Also western and adventure

    Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.

  6. 6Davy Crockett and the River Pirates

    Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956)

    ★ 6.3/10Also adventure and western

    Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink ("King of the River") in a boat race to New Orleans. Later, Davy and Georgie, allied with Fink, battle a group of river pirates trying to pass…

  7. 7North West Mounted Police

    North West Mounted Police (1940)

    ★ 6.4/10Also western and adventure

    Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the…

  8. 8The Big Sky

    The Big Sky (1952)

    ★ 6.6/10Also adventure and western

    Two tough Kentucky mountaineers join a trading expedition from St. Louis up the Missouri River to trade whisky for furs with the Blackfoot Indians. They soon discover that there is much more than the elements to…

  9. 9Angel and the Badman

    Angel and the Badman (1947)

    ★ 6.4/10Also western and adventure

    A 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…

  10. 10The Count of Monte-Cristo

    The Count of Monte-Cristo (1975)

    ★ 6.8/10Also adventure and tv movie

    Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.

  11. 11Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion

    Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion (2014)

    ★ 7.3/10Also adventure and tv movie

    It is a dark time. The Jedi are no more, and the Empire rules the galaxy with an iron fist -- bringing tyranny to the Outer Rim world of Lothal. Their ominous presence is a cloud over the planet, squashing any hope of…

  12. 12The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning

    The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (2007)

    ★ 6.2/10Also adventure and tv movie

    When mischievous teenaged cousins Bo and Luke Duke are arrested, both boys are paroled to the care of their Uncle Jesse in Hazzard, sentenced to a summer of hard work. It's not long before the Duke boys learn of Boss…

  13. 13The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

    ★ 8/10Also adventure and western

    Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.

  14. 14Rango

    Rango (2011)

    ★ 6.9/10Also western and adventure

    When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging Western town of Dirt, the theater-loving lizard suddenly finds himself the newly appointed sheriff. Welcomed as the last hope the town…

  15. 15Tonka

    Tonka (1958)

    ★ 6.3/10Also adventure and western

    Young Indian brave White Bull captures and tames a wild stallion and names him Tonka. But when White Bull's cruel cousin claims Tonka for his own and mistreats the horse, White Bull sets him free. Tonka finally finds a…

  16. 16Abraham

    Abraham (1993)

    ★ 7.2/10Also adventure and tv movie

    Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mankind... A man of great faith, Abraham continues to believe in God…

  17. 17Red River

    Red River (1948)

    ★ 7.3/10Also western and adventure

    Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journey, his persistence becomes tyrannical in the eyes of Matthew Garth…

  18. 18River of No Return

    River of No Return (1954)

    ★ 6.7/10Also adventure and western

    An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.

  19. 19The Legend of Zorro

    The Legend of Zorro (2005)

    ★ 6.1/10Also adventure and western

    Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Don Alejandro de la Vega and his wife, Elena, to take action.

  20. 20To Grandmother's House We Go

    To Grandmother's House We Go (1992)

    ★ 6.5/10Also adventure and tv movie

    When precocious twins Sarah and Julie feel like Mom is tired of them, they take off on an exciting adventure to their grandmother's house and encounter a pair of villains along the way.

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