Movies Like Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
If you liked Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant (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.
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Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters (1999)
★ 7.2/10Also war and adventureLieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
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Hornblower: Retribution (2001)
★ 7.4/10Also war and adventureHornblower 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.
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Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil (1999)
★ 7.2/10Also war and adventureActing Lieutenant Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own.
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Hornblower: Mutiny (2001)
★ 7.4/10Also war and adventureHornblower 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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Sharpe's Rifles (1993)
★ 6.8/10Also war and adventurePortugal, 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…
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Sahara (1995)
★ 6.7/10Also adventure and tv movieAfter the fall of Tobruk in June 1942, U.S. Army sergeant Joe Gunn leads his tank into the Sahara desert, in order to evade advancing Rommel's forces and reach Allied lines. Along the way he picks up few Allied…
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Sharpe's Challenge (2006)
★ 6.2/10Also war and adventureSean Bean is back as the swashbuckling hero in Sharpe's Challenge, an action packed mini-series to be shot on location in Rajasthan, India. Two years after the Duke of Wellington crushes Napoleon at Waterloo…
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Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
★ 7/10Also adventure and warCaptain 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.
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Hornblower: The Even Chance (1998)
★ 7.5/10Also war and adventurePortsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblower takes the first tentative steps of his naval career, but a feud with a shipmate causes complications.
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Play Dirty (1969)
★ 6.3/10Also war and adventureDuring World War II in North Africa, a group of British commandos disguised as Italian soldiers must travel behind enemy lines and destroy a vital Nazi oil depot.
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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 Guns of Navarone (1961)
★ 7.3/10Also adventure and warA 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.
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Jack Hunter and the Star of Heaven (2009)
★ 6.4/10Also adventure and tv movieJack Hunter pursues his arch nemesis Littman across ancient Europe, intent on thwarting his attempt to salvage a deadly artefact.
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When Trumpets Fade (1998)
★ 6.6/10Also war and tv movieIn WWII Western Germany, Private David Manning reluctantly leaves behind a mortally wounded fellow soldier and searches for survivors from his platoon, only to learn from commanding officer Captain Pritchett that they…
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Bravo Two Zero (1999)
★ 5.9/10Also war and tv movieWhen an elite eight-man British SAS team is dropped behind enemy lines, their mission is clear: take out Saddam Hussein's SCUD missile systems. But when communications are cut and the team finds themselves surrounded…
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Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding (2003)
★ 6/10Also adventure and tv movieMitch Buchannon, believed to have died in a boating accident survived and only has amnesia, he has been recovering in a Los Angeles hospital. His new fiancée, Allison Ford, resembles his old lover, Lt. Stephanie Holden…
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MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday (1994)
★ 6/10Also adventure and tv movieA close friend of MacGyver is murdered. In searching for a reason for this assassination MacGyver discovers a secret nuclear weapons plant right in the center of Britain.
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Dr. Strange (1978)
★ 6/10Also tv movie and adventureA psychiatrist becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth in order to battle an evil Sorceress from the past.
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Hornblower: Loyalty (2003)
★ 7.3/10Also war and adventureHornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
★ 6.7/10Also war and tv movieAt the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors…