Movies Like North West Frontier

If you liked North West Frontier (1959), a adventure and drama movie directed by J. Lee Thompson, 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
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)
★ 7.1/10Also adventure
The sailor of legend is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace, and must travel to her realm at the end of the world to retrieve it and save the life of his childhood friend Prince Proteus.
2
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)
★ 6.9/10Also adventure and drama
A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an…
3
Hidalgo (2004)
★ 6.9/10Also adventure
Set in 1890, this is the story of a Pony Express courier who travels to Arabia to compete with his horse, Hidalgo, in a dangerous race for a massive contest prize, in an adventure that sends the pair around the world...
4
Night Crossing (1982)
★ 6.1/10Also adventure and drama
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.
5
North by Northwest (1959)
★ 8/10Also adventure
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
6
Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987)
★ 6/10Also adventure and drama
Under the watch of his unkind realtives, lonely Bosse's luck is changed when he is sent to the land where his real father is the King. In that country, he sets out on a quest, together with his new friend, to destroy…
7
The First Great Train Robbery (1978)
★ 6.7/10Also adventure and drama
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
8
Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure
Legendary secrets are revealed as Aladdin and his friends—Jasmine, Abu, Carpet and, of course, the always entertaining Genie—face all sorts of terrifying threats and make some exciting last-minute escapes pursuing the…
9
Damsel (2024)
★ 7/10Also adventure
A young woman's marriage to a charming prince turns into a fierce fight for survival when she's offered up as a sacrifice to a fire-breathing dragon.
10
The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)
★ 6.8/10Also adventure and drama
America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. A courageous young girl confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country search for her father. During her…
11
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
★ 7.8/10Also adventure
When wily pirate Captain Barbossa seizes Jack Sparrow’s beloved ship, the Black Pearl, and kidnaps the governor’s daughter, Elizabeth Swann, blacksmith Will Turner reluctantly teams up with the unpredictable pirate…
12
The Living Daylights (1987)
★ 6.6/10Also adventure
After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union…
13
A Passage to India (1984)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and adventure
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
14
Descendants 2 (2017)
★ 7.4/10Also adventure
When the pressure to be royal becomes too much for Mal, she returns to the Isle of the Lost where her archenemy Uma, Ursula's daughter, has taken her spot as self-proclaimed queen.
15
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
★ 6.7/10Also adventure
Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sailors led by his old nemesis, the evil Capt. Salazar, escape from…
16
The Call of the Wild (1972)
★ 6.1/10Also adventure and drama
John Thornton, is a fearless man who's after more than gold; he wants to do what's right. Thornton works for the U.S. mail and is the only person daring and smart enough to figure out how to travel the deadly 600 miles…
17
The Railway Children Return (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and adventure
Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, is far away from home.
18
The Wind and the Lion (1975)
★ 6.5/10Also adventure and drama
At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and the attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.
19
The Sea Beast (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also adventure
When a young girl stows away on the ship of a legendary sea monster hunter, they launch an epic journey into uncharted waters — and make history to boot.
20
Passage to Marseille (1944)
★ 6.7/10Also adventure and drama
A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.