Movies Like S.O.S. Sahara

If you liked S.O.S. Sahara (1938), a movie directed by Jacques de Baroncelli, 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
The Lucky One (2012)
★ 7.2/10
A Marine travels to Louisiana after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war.
2
Allied (2016)
★ 6.8/10
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
3
Angelique and the Sultan (1968)
★ 6.4/10
Angélique is in a North African Muslim kingdom where she is now part of the Sultan's harem. She refuses to be bedded as her captors try to beat sense into her. She finally decides to escape with the help of two…
4
My Wife's Husband (1963)
★ 6.7/10
After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disparition, his wife as made her life with a norman chef, sympathetic but a specialist of butter's cooking when…
5
Sahara (1943)
★ 7.2/10
In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion during the Western Desert Campaign of…
6
Beau Travail (2000)
★ 7.1/10
Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, until the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain…
7
Men in Black: International (2019)
★ 5.9/10
The Men in Black have always protected the Earth from the scum of the universe. In this new adventure, they tackle their biggest, most global threat to date: a mole in the Men in Black organization.
8
Beau Geste (1939)
★ 7/10
Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit…
9
The Four Musketeers (1974)
★ 6.5/10
The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.
10
The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
★ 6.2/10
Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his…
11
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
★ 7.2/10
Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to stumble into a web of international…
12
Morocco (1930)
★ 6.5/10
Mogador, Morocco. Late 1920s. A complex romance develops between a womanizing Legionnaire and a disillusioned Parisian cabaret singer.
13
Paradise (1982)
★ 6/10
After their caravan is attacked and their respective families butchered by Arab marauders, teenagers David and Sarah flee across the desert. But the desert is filled with danger from the elements, animals and the…
14
The Swimming Pool (1969)
★ 7/10
Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne…
15
Private Benjamin (1980)
★ 6/10
A sheltered young high society woman joins the US Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.
16
Seven Days in May (1964)
★ 7.4/10
A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
17
The Sheltering Sky (1990)
★ 6.5/10
An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
18
Riviera Revenge (2024)
★ 5.9/10
François Marsault, a war veteran, makes the most of his retirement alongside his wife Annie. Authoritarian and ruthless, François rules his family with an iron fist — but when he discovers that his esteemed wife…
19
Promise at Dawn (2017)
★ 7.2/10
From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the…
20
Die Hard (1988)
★ 7.8/10
High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages, and declared war. One man has manages to escape... An off-duty cop hiding somewhere inside. He's alone, tired... and the only…