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Movies that feel likeA Knight's Tale (2001)

William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself, William won't stop until he's crowned tournament champion—assuming matters of the heart don't get in the way.

If you loved A Knight's Tale, the closest films we have are Jodhaa Akbar (2008), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) and Cinderella Man (2005). All three share A Knight's Tale's epic and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Bajirao Mastani (2015).

🍅 60% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Brian Helgelandepiccontemplativeromantictenderkinetic
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Jodhaa Akbar
2008 · dir. Ashutosh Gowariker
🍅 81%★ 7.5romance · history · drama

The same preoccupation in both: sword fight

The difference: Takes it somewhere less kinetic than A Knight's Tale does

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a Mughal emperor and a Rajput princess.

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Memoirs of a Geisha
2005 · dir. Rob Marshall
🍅 35%★ 7.3drama · romance · history

Epic and contemplative in the same breath

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

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Cinderella Man
2005 · dir. Ron Howard
🍅 80%★ 8romance · drama · history

The same mix in both: romance, then tenderness

The difference: Leans harder into history than A Knight's Tale does

The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise comeback in order to lift his family out of poverty.

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Anna Karenina
2012 · dir. Joe Wright
🍅 63%★ 6.6drama · romance · historyParamount+

Drama built on scale, twice over

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

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A Royal Affair
2012 · dir. Nikolaj Arcel
🍅 90%★ 7.5drama · history · romance

Romance with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.

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Bajirao Mastani
2015 · dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
🍅 68%★ 7.3history · romance · drama

Romantic adventure, and it commits to that

Peshwa Bajirao married to Kashibai, falls in love with Mastani, a warrior princess in distress. They struggle to make their love triumph amid opposition from his conservative family.

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Arn: The Knight Templar
2007 · dir. Peter Flinth
★ 6.6action · adventure · drama

Both lean on momentum more than on action

Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.

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Australia
2008 · dir. Baz Luhrmann
🍅 53%★ 6.6adventure · romance · drama

Tender adventure in both cases

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.

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The Bodyguard
1992 · dir. Mick Jackson
🍅 38%★ 6.4action · drama · romanceParamount+

Drama with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened by a crazed fan. At first, the safety-obsessed bodyguard and the self-indulgent diva totally clash. But before long, all that tension sparks fireworks of another sort, and the love-averse tough guy is torn between duty and romance.

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The Mountain Between Us
2017 · dir. Hany Abu-Assad
🍅 39%★ 6.4drama · adventure · romance

Romance with a pulse of scale, in both cases

Stranded on a mountain after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must work together to endure the extreme elements of the remote, snow-covered terrain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across hundreds of miles of wilderness, pushing each other to survive and discovering their inner strength.

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Alexander
2004 · dir. Oliver Stone
🍅 15%★ 5.6war · history · action

One thread runs through both: sword fight

Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.

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The Dreamers
2003 · dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
🍅 59%★ 7.1drama · romance

Action built on stillness, twice over

When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.

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