Movies Like The Man in the Iron Mask
If you liked The Man in the Iron Mask (1939), a adventure and history movie directed by James Whale, 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 Three Musketeers (1948)
★ 6.8/10Also adventureIn 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue…
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The Three Musketeers (1973)
★ 6.7/10Also adventureIn 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue…
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The Three Musketeers (1993)
★ 6.4/10Also adventureD'Artagnan travels to Paris hoping to become a musketeer, one of the French king's elite bodyguards, only to discover that the corps has been disbanded by conniving Cardinal Richelieu, who secretly hopes to usurp the…
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The Four Musketeers (1974)
★ 6.5/10Also adventureThe Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.
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Les Misérables (1935)
★ 7.1/10Also historyIn 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the…
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Scaramouche (1952)
★ 7/10Also adventureIn 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.
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War and Peace (1956)
★ 6.6/10Also historyThe love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
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The Princess Bride (1987)
★ 7.7/10Also adventureIn this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of…
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Cutthroat Island (1995)
★ 5.8/10Also adventureMorgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map. Unfortunately, the final portion is held by her murderous uncle, Dawg. Her crew is skeptical of her leadership…
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The Vikings (1958)
★ 7/10Also adventure and historyEinar, brutal son of the viking Ragnar and future heir to his throne, tangles with clever slave Eric, for the hand of a beautiful English maiden.
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The Man in the Iron Mask (1977)
★ 6.4/10Also history and adventureYears have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his…
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The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
★ 6.8/10Also adventureTwo boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards…
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Ivanhoe (1952)
★ 6.8/10Also adventure and historySir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.
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Knights of the Round Table (1953)
★ 6/10Also adventureIn Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one day he must quit Camelot and the Queen Guinevere's love, leaving the Round Table without protection.
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The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
★ 7.5/10Also adventureRobin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
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Les Misérables (2012)
★ 7.3/10Also historyAn adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The…
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The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
★ 7.5/10Also adventureA kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in…
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Treasure Island (1972)
★ 5.9/10Also adventureYoung Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer's treasure, in this short adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale.
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Barry Lyndon (1975)
★ 8/10Also historyAn Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.
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The Guns of Navarone (1961)
★ 7.3/10Also adventureA 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.