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Movies Like John Paul Jones

If you liked John Paul Jones (1959), a war and action movie directed by John Farrow, 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. 1Hellfighters

    Hellfighters (1968)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action and romance

    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.

  2. 2Gunga Din

    Gunga Din (1939)

    ★ 6.5/10Also war and action

    British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of…

  3. 3Angel and the Badman

    Angel and the Badman (1947)

    ★ 6.4/10Also romance and action

    A wounded outlaw finds unexpected mercy in the care of a rancher's daughter. The hope of love pulls him toward a different life until the law, and his violent past, close in on his new home. Now he must choose the kind…

  4. 4400 Bullets

    400 Bullets (2021)

    ★ 7/10Also action and war

    One cold winter night in Afghanistan is about to get a whole lot worse for Rana Rae, a Gurkha soldier left to guard a British military outpost, when Captain Noah Brandt arrives looking for refuge from a group of rogue…

  5. 5North West Mounted Police

    North West Mounted Police (1940)

    ★ 6.4/10Also action and romance

    Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the…

  6. 6The Adventures of Robin Hood

    The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

    ★ 7.5/10Also romance and action

    Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.

  7. 7The Bridge at Remagen

    The Bridge at Remagen (1969)

    ★ 6.8/10Also war and action

    In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead across the Rhine.

  8. 8South Pacific

    South Pacific (1958)

    ★ 6.1/10Also romance and war

    Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out of her hair?…

  9. 9The Sea Wolves

    The Sea Wolves (1980)

    ★ 5.9/10Also war and action

    A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold…

  10. 10Solomon and Sheba

    Solomon and Sheba (1959)

    ★ 6.5/10Also romance and war

    Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah. Furious, Adonijah departs the court, swearing he will become king. Other rulers are concerned that…

  11. 11Prince Valiant

    Prince Valiant (1954)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action and romance

    A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.

  12. 12The Final Countdown

    The Final Countdown (1980)

    ★ 6.6/10Also war and action

    During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

  13. 13Reap the Wild Wind

    Reap the Wild Wind (1942)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action and romance

    The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest…

  14. 14The Three Musketeers

    The Three Musketeers (1973)

    ★ 6.7/10Also action and romance

    In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue…

  15. 15Attack Force Z

    Attack Force Z (1982)

    ★ 5.9/10Also war and action

    Sent to rescue survivors from the site of a plane crash in the South Pacific during WWII, Captain Kelly and his elite squad of Australian commandos must keep tabs on a defecting Japanese official who could hold the…

  16. 16Maleficent

    Maleficent (2014)

    ★ 7.1/10Also action and romance

    A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. She rises to be the land's fiercest…

  17. 17The Lost Patrol

    The Lost Patrol (1934)

    ★ 6.6/10Also action and war

    A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. The patrol's sergeant keeps them…

  18. 18The Desert Rats

    The Desert Rats (1953)

    ★ 6.3/10Also war and action

    In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinforcements sent to…

  19. 19Tarzan and the Amazons

    Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)

    ★ 6.4/10Also action and romance

    A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.

  20. 20The Plainsman

    The Plainsman (1936)

    ★ 6.5/10Also war and romance

    Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.

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