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Movies Like Gift Horse

If you liked Gift Horse (1952), a adventure and war movie directed by Compton Bennett, 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. 1The Guns of Navarone

    The Guns of Navarone (1961)

    ★ 7.3/10Also adventure and drama

    A 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.

  2. 2The Scarlet and the Black

    The Scarlet and the Black (1983)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and war

    Fr. 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…

  3. 3Cave Rescue

    Cave Rescue (2019)

    ★ 5.9/10Also adventure and drama

    When a youth football team of 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach is trapped deep inside a cave in Northern Thailand, thousands of volunteers and soldiers from around the world unite in a race against time…

  4. 4True Grit

    True Grit (1969)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and 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…

  5. 5Wake of the Red Witch

    Wake of the Red Witch (1948)

    ★ 5.9/10Also adventure and drama

    Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.

  6. 6Taking Chance

    Taking Chance (2009)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and war

    Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort accompanies the body of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps to his hometown in Wyoming.

  7. 7Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

    Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

    ★ 7.2/10Also adventure and drama

    After 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…

  8. 8Journey's End

    Journey's End (2017)

    ★ 6.3/10Also war and drama

    Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.

  9. 9Taking Sides

    Taking Sides (2002)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and war

    One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In…

  10. 10Dark of the Sun

    Dark of the Sun (1968)

    ★ 6.6/10Also war and adventure

    A 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…

  11. 11Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding

    Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding (2003)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and adventure

    Mitch Buchannon, believed to have died in a boating accident survived and only has amnesia, he has been recovering in a Los Angeles hospital. His new fiancée, Allison Ford, resembles his old lover, Lt. Stephanie Holden…

  12. 12Blood on the Sun

    Blood on the Sun (1945)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and war

    Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by the propaganda…

  13. 13Passage to Marseille

    Passage to Marseille (1944)

    ★ 6.7/10Also adventure and drama

    A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.

  14. 14Indivisible

    Indivisible (2018)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and war

    Upon returning from serving in the U.S. Army, Chaplain Darren Turner faces a crisis that shatters his Family and Faith in God but through the help of his fellow soldiers, he returns to his faith and family

  15. 15The Boy in the Woods

    The Boy in the Woods (2023)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and war

    The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.

  16. 16Objective, Burma!

    Objective, Burma! (1945)

    ★ 6.9/10Also war and adventure

    A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip…

  17. 17Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

    Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)

    ★ 7/10Also adventure and war

    Captain 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.

  18. 18War Horse

    War Horse (2011)

    ★ 7.3/10Also war and drama

    On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms…

  19. 19The Postman

    The Postman (1997)

    ★ 6.3/10Also adventure and drama

    In 2013, there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the United States. Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a…

  20. 20Courage Under Fire

    Courage Under Fire (1996)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and war

    A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job. He is tasked to investigate a female chopper commander's worthiness to be awarded the Medal of Honor. At…

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