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Movies that feel likeAlexander (2004)

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.

If you loved Alexander, the closest films we have are A Knight's Tale (2001), Battle for Sevastopol (2015) and Jodhaa Akbar (2008). All three share Alexander's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Wings (1927).

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A Knight's Tale
2001 · dir. Brian Helgeland
🍅 60%★ 7adventure · drama · romanceParamount+

The same preoccupation in both: sword fight

The difference: Reviewed even better

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.

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Battle for Sevastopol
2015 · dir. Sergey Mokritsky
★ 7war · drama · romancePrime Video

Bleak where it counts, contemplative underneath

The difference: Trades the scale of Alexander for an angle of its own

The story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.

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Jodhaa Akbar
2008 · dir. Ashutosh Gowariker
🍅 81%★ 7.5romance · history · drama

Common ground: emperor

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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Allied
2016 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
🍅 60%★ 7.1action · drama · warParamount+

The same mix in both: momentum, then romance

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Alexander does

In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.

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The English Patient
1996 · dir. Anthony Minghella
🍅 86%★ 7.4drama · romance · warParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: egypt

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.

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Wings
1927 · dir. William A. Wellman
🍅 94%★ 7.5drama · action · war

War built on tenderness, twice over

The difference: 77 years apart, and the 1920s show

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.

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Dear John
2010 · dir. Lasse Hallström
🍅 28%★ 6.3drama · romance · warParamount+

Bleak drama in both cases

While Sergeant John Tyree is home on two weeks leave from Germany, he meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off a pier. John eventually falls in love with Savannah, who promises to write to him until he returns from overseas.

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

Epic action, and it commits to that

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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Warsaw 44
2014 · dir. Jan Komasa
★ 6.6drama · history · war

History with a pulse of scale, in both cases

City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and violence during five long years of Nazi occupation. As the Soviet Army relentlessly approaches, the youngest and bravest among them rise up as one and face tyranny fighting street by street, but the price to pay will be high and hard the way to freedom…

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King Arthur
2004 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 30%★ 6.3adventure · war · historyPrime Video

Both lean on momentum more than on adventure

The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and that the Roman-British military commander, Lucius Artorius Castus is the historical person behind the legend.

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

One thread runs through both: royalty

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

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

Romance with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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