Movies Like Hornblower: Duty
If you liked Hornblower: Duty (2003), 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: 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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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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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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Dark of the Sun (1968)
★ 6.6/10Also war and adventureA band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize…
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
★ 7.2/10Also adventure and warAfter an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh…
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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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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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Passage to Marseille (1944)
★ 6.7/10Also adventure and warA freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.
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To Have and Have Not (1945)
★ 7.4/10Also adventure and warA Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
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The Four Feathers (1939)
★ 7.1/10Also adventure and warA disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
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Uprising (2001)
★ 6.6/10Also war and tv movieIn the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
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Against the Sun (2014)
★ 7/10Also war and adventureA WWII pilot, bombardier, and radioman find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane during a scouting mission.
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The Count of Monte-Cristo (1975)
★ 6.8/10Also adventure and tv movieYoung 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.
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Taking Chance (2009)
★ 7.2/10Also war and tv movieLt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort accompanies the body of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps to his hometown in Wyoming.
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Stargate: Continuum (2008)
★ 7.1/10Also adventure and tv movieBa'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
★ 6.5/10Also war and adventureSpain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk…
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Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
★ 7.3/10Also war and adventureA group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria.
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The Alamo (1960)
★ 7.1/10Also war and adventureThe 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.