Movies Like The Railroad Raiders

If you liked The Railroad Raiders (1917), a adventure and action movie directed by J.P. McGowan and Helen Holmes, 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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True Grit (1969)
★ 7.3/10Also adventure
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of…
2
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
★ 6.6/10Also adventure and action
Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.
3
The Electric State (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also action and adventure
An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up with a smuggler and his wisecracking sidekick.
4
The Lost World (2001)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure
This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a bully than Doyle's character, but his…
5
Hellfighters (1968)
★ 6.3/10Also action and adventure
The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.
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The Black Book (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also action
After his son is wrongly accused of kidnapping, a deacon who has just lost his wife takes matters into his own hands and fights a crooked police gang to clear him.
7
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and action
Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, covert operations expert Zora Bennett is contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure genetic material from the world's three most massive…
8
Eight Below (2006)
★ 7/10Also adventure
In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren, the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be…
9
Furious 7 (2015)
★ 7.2/10Also action
Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family for his comatose brother.
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and action
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.
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Black Gold (2011)
★ 6.5/10Also adventure
On the Arabian Peninsula in the 1930s, two warring leaders come face to face. The victorious Nesib, Emir of Hobeika, lays down his peace terms to rival Amar, Sultan of Salmaah. The two men agree that neither can lay…
12
Blood Diamond (2006)
★ 7.6/10Also action
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the…
13
The High and the Mighty (1954)
★ 5.9/10Also adventure
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight that takes a terrifying turn when disaster…
14
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also action and adventure
When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul…
15
Robin Hood (1922)
★ 6.4/10Also adventure
The dashing Earl of Huntingdon excels in courtly life and jousting before King Richard departs for the Crusades. While away, Richard's treacherous brother, Prince John, seizes power and inflicts brutal tyranny on the…
16
Mackenna's Gold (1969)
★ 6.6/10Also adventure and action
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
★ 6.7/10Also adventure and action
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…
18
Snow Queen (2002)
★ 6.1/10Also adventure
Since a bitter winter storm stole the life of Gerda's mother, she and her father have sadly continued to run the remote hotel they call home. Lonely and isolated, Gerda's only joy is Kai, the handsome bellboy. A…
19
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
★ 7.1/10Also action and adventure
There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of conscience may give him an advantage over the detective.
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Star Trek Beyond (2016)
★ 6.8/10Also action and adventure
The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mysterious new enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test.